Internet giants Google and Yahoo are taking serious steps to protect users’ data from NSA and other surveillance programs, and some media reports indicate that Facebook and Microsoft are also increasing their security. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote an open ...
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NSA Is Reading Your Contacts List Too
The National Security Agency has created a massive database of contact lists from email and instant messaging accounts, including millions of contact lists from Americans. That means the NSA easily could have your email address book and list of friends ...
Read More »Silenced: Jailed US Journalist Can’t Discuss NSA Spying
A federal court in Texas has effectively denied an imprisoned reporter and his attorneys’ right to freedom of speech with a so-called gag order — preventing him from discussing US surveillance efforts. The order is only the latest action that ...
Read More »NSA Cracks Encryption Codes, Can Read Email, Banking, Medical Records
The National Security Agency and its ally, the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have used advanced hacking techniques to crack most encryption software — meaning the two agencies can read encrypted messages on the Internet, even email, banking and medical ...
Read More »Obama Claims On Tonight Show “We Don’t Have a Domestic Spying Program”
Despite vast amounts of evidence to the contrary, President Obama declared on “The Tonight Show” in front of all of America that “we don’t have a domestic spying program.” This president must think us fools. A secret unit of the ...
Read More »Online Search Term Ends in Terrorism Task Force Searching Home
WASHINGTON – If you don’t want your home searched by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, don’t conduct an Internet search for “pressure cookers” and “backpacks.” That may be oversimplifying it, but a blog post Thursday by a national ...
Read More »Pew Poll: Americans More Concerned About Invasion Of Privacy Than Terrorism
For the first time since 9/11, Americans are more concerned about the government invading their privacy than they are about terrorism. That’s according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey in light of revelations ...
Read More »SHOCKING: How Your Movements Are Being Tracked
If you drive in the United States or Canada, state, provincial, and local enforcement agencies are tracking your movements whether you break the law or not. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered that law enforcement agencies are using ...
Read More »Another NSA Staffer Reveals Data Collection On Citizens In US And European Union
More NSA snooping information was released recently, only to be yanked from publication almost immediately after an editor hit the “publish” button. The Guardian-owned Observer posted a new NSA spying scandal story on June 30, but the information disappeared quickly—however, ...
Read More »REPORT: NSA Data Mining Project Working To Read Brain Waves
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden may have disappeared from his upscale hotel in China, but the fallout continues from his shocking data mining allegations. Snowden maintains he worked as a security guard for a NSA “cover facility” at the University of ...
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