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- Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight https://apnews.com/article/fisa-donald-trump-surveillance-congress-johnson-81e991c9f82e77b2fe13f8a3e0e25349 218 comments
- DOJ Still Not Informing Defendants About Sources Of Surveillance Program-Derived Evidence Being Used Against Them https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151215/07430433084/doj-still-not-informing-defendants-about-sources-surveillance-program-derived-evidence-being-used-against-them.shtml 4 comments politics
- Following The Murder Of George Floyd, The Minneapolis PD Built A Large-Scale Surveillance Program https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/following-the-murder-of-george-floyd-the-minneapolis-pd-built-a-large-scale-surveillance-program/ 100 comments technology
- End Two Federal Programs that Fund Police Surveillance Tech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/end-two-federal-programs-fund-police-surveillance-tech 9 comments technology
- House panel to debate bill that would prevent NSA from reviving dormant surveillance program https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/house-panel-to-debate-bill-that-would-prevent-nsa-from-reviving-dormant-surveillance-program/2020/02/24/9c22cc1e-574a-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html 5 comments politics
- Sweden and UK's surveillance programs on trial at the European Court of Human Rights https://www.zdnet.com/article/sweden-and-uks-surveillance-programs-on-trial-at-the-european-court-of-human-rights/ 3 comments worldnews
- Pentagon will pull money from ballistic missile and surveillance plane programs to fund border wall https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/05/12/pentagon-will-pull-money-ballistic-missile-surveillance-plane-programs-fund-border-wall/? 7 comments politics
- A secret TSA surveillance program targets ordinary Americans https://www.axios.com/secret-tsa-surveillance-program-quiet-skies-air-marshals-7a2cf0e2-bf13-4de3-8c85-9aeb578dc74b.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic 34 comments worldnews
- Intel leaders urge Congress to reauthorize NSA surveillance program http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/chris-wray-fisa-reauthorization/index.html 3 comments politics
- NSA stops major category of domestic surveillance, will "delete the vast majority of Internet data" collected under program http://reuters.com/article/iduskbn17u2of 12 comments technology
- Lone lawyer sues Obama, alleging illegality of surveillance programs http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/lone-lawyer-sues-obama-alleging-illegality-of-surveillance-programs/ 45 comments technology
- House narrowly votes to continue NSA surveillance program; (134 Republicans: 83 Democrats against abolishing; 94R : 111D for) http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/phone-records-house-narrowly-votes-to-continue-nsa-surveillance-program-rejecting-challenge/2013/07/24/253d1d14-f4c0-11e2-81fa-8e83b3864c36_story.html 3 comments politics
- Everything you need to know about PRISM — a cheat sheet for the NSA's unprecedented surveillance programs http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/17/4517480/nsa-spying-prism-surveillance-cheat-sheet 4 comments technology
- NYT: As Criticism Grows, Curtailing Surveillance Program Seems Unlikely http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/us/politics/as-criticism-grows-curtailing-surveillance-program-seems-unlikely.html 3 comments privacy
- Obama Defends NSA Programs, Says Congress Knew About Surveillance http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/obama-nsa_n_3403389.html 3 comments politics
- Guess who doesn't like an encryption program that would prevent illegal warrantless surveillance? Your government. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/10/silent_circle_mike_janke_s_iphone_app_makes_encryption_easy_governments.html 107 comments technology
- Federal Money Linked to NYPD's Muslim Surveillance Program -- the New York Police Departments's controversial program to monitor Muslim neighborhoods and organizations was funded, at least in part, by White House grants meant to pay for the drug war. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/federal-money-linked-nypds-muslim-surveillance-program/49178/ 25 comments politics
- TSA Oversight Says Agency's Suspicionless Surveillance Program Is Worthless And The TSA Can't Prove It Isn't https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201205/18514245827/tsa-oversight-says-agencys-suspicionless-surveillance-program-is-worthless-tsa-cant-prove-it-isnt.shtml 10 comments stallmanwasright
- NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-usa-nsa-termination-iduskbn0tg27120151127 68 comments worldnews
- Surveillance company loses control of flagship spy program: Hacking Team - "We believe this is an extremely dangerous situation" http://news.yahoo.com/breach-italian-surveillance-vendor-prompts-security-alert-112256642.html 119 comments worldnews
- NSA says it will keep phone records even if surveillance program ends http://rt.com/usa/263333-nsa-keep-phone-records/ 43 comments worldnews
- FBI official claims NSA surveillance programs helped disrupt plots to bomb the New York Stock Exchange and the New York subway system http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/18/19022364-surveillance-helped-stop-plots-against-nyse-and-new-york-subway-official-says?lite 9 comments politics
- In a vision of how America might have been different if the Supreme Court had not intervened in the 2000 presidential election, former Vice President Al Gore labeled controversial National Security Agency surveillance programs “in my view violates the...fourth amendment and the first amendment. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/17/2165371/al-gore-nsa-surveillance-programs-violate-the-constitution/?mobile=nc&utm_source=feedly 11 comments politics
- NSA officials say they'll declassify ≈20 foiled terrorist plots to show the value of surveillance programs http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/nsa-broke-terrorist-plots-92854.html 10 comments politics
- PRISM and other surveillance programs are the result of prioritizing terrorism over other problems. We have sacrificed American ideals for what is an insignificant threat. http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/anti-terrorism-spending-disproportionate-to-threat/ 20 comments politics
- Let me tell you about a concerning new pilot program launched by the BIS, Eurosystem, De Nederlandsche Bank, and the Deutsche Bundesbank last week - Project Atlas. Project Atlas is a Proof of Concept for surveilling the international flows of Bitcoin and all crypto-assets. https://www.bis.org/publ/othp76.pdf 10 comments bitcoin
- Pulling Back the Curtain on Canada’s Mass Surveillance Programs – Part Two: The CSE Secret Spying Archive - [BC Civil Liberties Association] https://bccla.org/2023/03/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-canadas-mass-surveillance-programs-part-two-the-cse-secret-spying-archive/ 3 comments privacy
- No socially responsible programmer should assist any program of domestic surveillance http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cpsr-speech.html 66 comments programming
- United States of Secrets: PBS Frontline documentary on the rise of domestic surveillance programs within the NSA post-9/11 http://video.pbs.org/video/2365245528 3 comments politics
- NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-reaches-into-the-past-to-retrieve-replay-phone-calls/2014/03/18/226d2646-ade9-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html 34 comments privacy
- Now we know for sure: The Obama administration has presided over the most thorough expansion of the domestic surveillance state of any U.S. presidency. The program is code-named PRISM, and the Post reports that it has experienced “exponential growth” under Obama. http://www.alternet.org/surveillance-facebook-google?utm_source=feedly 7 comments politics
- 20th Century Laws Meet 21st Century Surveillance: Why Metadata Surveillance is a Serious Concern: 'Canada has its own metadata surveillance program. The program was discontinued in 2008 after concerns that it could involve illegal surveillance of Canadians, but was secretly restarted in 2011.' http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6872/125/ 23 comments worldnews
- Reddit, we just got a chance to finally force Congress to do something about the NSA surveillance programs that Edward Snowden exposed -- and maybe even facial recognition too -- but we have to act fast https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/c1wwwe/reddit_we_just_got_a_chance_to_finally_force/ 44 comments privacy
- Top NSA official says telephone surveillance should have been disclosed: 'U.S. government should have publicized the existence of a program that vacuumed up in bulk Americans' telephone call data before its existence was leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA's deputy director said.' http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-nsa-iduskbn16t034 225 comments worldnews
- Trump Administration wants to renew FISA Section 702; keep Snowden revealed NSA surveillance programs PRISM and Upstream https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/03/trump-administration-wants-renew-fisa-section-702-keep-snowden-revealed-nsa-surveillance-programs-prism-upstream/ 162 comments technology
- His goal in releasing the virus' programming code was to make people aware that "we are now becoming a surveillance society" and that "police Trojans are reality and questionable." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5i0aa3p8cfabdqxangwc6tfqxgiowd9afd3io3 6 comments technology
- Yahoo Inc has named well-known security researcher Alex Stamos as its chief information security officer, tapping a vocal critic of the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs for the position. http://reuters.com/article/idusl2n0m71t720140310?irpc=932 3 comments technology
- A 2014 study by the New America Foundation revealed that NSA surveillance programs played an initiating role in only 7.5% of the 225 cases of terrorism-related charges. Just eight cases could be linked to the NSA, and only one actually involved an operational plot to attack the United States. http://www.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/bergen_naf_nsa%20surveillance_1_0_0.pdf 4 comments politics
- Massive new surveillance program will store data on innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, using “predictive pattern-matching,” to analyze for suspicious behavior; will also share info with foreign gov'ts. It represents a “sea change in the way that the gov't interacts with the general public” http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/12/13/national_counterterrorism_center_s_massive_new_surveillance_program_uncovered.html 5 comments politics
- Russia says it would consider giving NSA leaker asylum, as pol taunts of 'hysteria in US': Russia would consider granting asylum to the American who has exposed top-secret NSA surveillance programs, if he were to ask for it, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Tuesday. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/hiding_behind_hysteria_iron_curtain_q6wst5pxpdf46idkcgdovo 28 comments politics