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This State’s Unusual Idea May Shut Down The NSA

This State’s Unusual Idea May Shut Down The NSA

A bipartisan bill in a Northwest state could severely hinder the actions of the National Security Agency (NSA), and if it spreads to other states could do even more than that. Under the bill in Washington state, selling anything to ...

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Police Tracking Cell Phones Without Warrant

Police Tracking Cell Phones Without Warrant

Privacy advocates and concerned citizens don’t just have to worry about the National Security Agency (NSA) anymore. Local police are increasingly tracking and gathering data from people’s cellphones in what they say is an effort to fight crime and terrorism. ...

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NSA Officials ‘Furious’ At Obama, Say He Knew Of Foreign Leader Spying

NSA Officials ‘Furious’ At Obama, Say He Knew Of Foreign Leader Spying

With the White House claiming President Obama did not know the United States was listening to the phone conversations of leaders of friendly nations, officials within the National Security Agency are pushing back, saying Obama’s own administration approved of the ...

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NSA Is Reading Your Contacts List Too

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 ...

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BIASED: Obama’s ‘Independent’ NSA Review Panel Is All-Democratic

BIASED: Obama’s ‘Independent’ NSA Review Panel Is All-Democratic

President Obama’s panel of independent experts to review surveillance efforts of the National Security Agency is a sham, the Associated Press has concluded. The AP’s journalists discovered that the panelists are far from independent, with all of them having ties ...

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Obama Overturned Bush To Allow NSA Warrantless Spying

Obama Overturned Bush To Allow NSA Warrantless Spying

The Obama administration went out of its way to get restrictions on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs removed in 2011, allowing it to search Americans’ communications without a warrant, according to a new report. The restrictions had been imposed ...

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SHOCKING: Freedom Of Information Act Request Denied

SHOCKING: Freedom Of Information Act Request Denied

The National Security Agency (NSA) turned down Ohio resident Clayton Seymour’s reasonable Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Seymour, a typical law-abiding Buckeye, merely wanted to know if the NSA had been collecting information from his phone of electronic correspondence. ...

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Big Gov Uses Hackers To Spy On You

Big Gov Uses Hackers To Spy On You

Uncle Sam might be planning to wage illegal cyber warfare on U.S. citizens. The federal government, it seems, has been secretly (and sometimes openly) recruiting computer hackers to engage in legal and illegal activities for years. Frighteningly enough, some of ...

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Privacy Groups Question Obama’s Orders to NSA to Spy on Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – EPIC, a national organization that monitors and reports on privacy issues, is asking to see copies of what it calls a “secret law” announced by Barack Obama regarding the National Security Agency and the extent of its ...

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