Tag: surveillance
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New World Next Week: Episode171 – Russell Brandwagon, CIA Healthcare, Food Stamps Riots
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode171 – Russell Brandwagon, CIA Healthcare, Food Stamp Riots Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Russell Brand Isn’t Waking People Up – He Is Putting You Back…
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#StopWatchingUs: Anti-NSA Rally Attracts Thousands In DC
from usatoday.com: Thousands rallied against NSA’s domestic and international surveillance on Saturday by marching to the Capitol and calling for closer scrutiny of the agency as more details of its spying are leaked. Holding signs that said “Stop mass surveillance,” “Thank you, Edward Snowden” and “No NSA mass spying,” and chanting slogans like “no secret…
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India’s PM Has No Mobile Phone, Email For NSA To Hack
xfrom ndtv.com: The Prime Minister does not own a mobile phone or use personal email, giving India “no cause for concern” about new US hacking revelations, his office said on Friday… Asked if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was concerned, his spokesman replied: “The prime minister doesn’t use a mobile phone and he doesn’t have an…
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US Spied On 35 World Leaders, Produces “Little Intelligence”
from gulftoday.ae: A widening scandal over US spying on its friends and allies put the fight against terrorism centre stage on Friday as EU leaders called for a new understanding with Washington on intelligence gathering. At the close of a summit overshadowed by the spying row, all 28 EU leaders “stressed that intelligence gathering is…
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US Seeking to Soothe France Over NSA Snooping
from abcnews.go.com: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says America is working to find the right balance between protecting peoples’ security and privacy rights. Kerry arrived in Paris Monday to anger over a reported NSA program that collected more than 70 million French telephone records over a month. Kerry said protecting people’s security in today’s…
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NSA & GCHQ target Tor anonymity network
from theguardian.com: The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself. Top-secret NSA documents, disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the agency’s current successes against…
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How the cops watch your tweets in real-time
from arstechnica.com: Recent leaks about the NSA’s Internet spy programs have sparked renewed interest in government surveillance, though the leaks touch largely on a single form of such surveillance—the covert one. But so-called “open source intelligence” (OSINT) is also big business— and not just at the national/international level. New tools now mine everything from “the…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode165 – Global Tax Grid, Hemisphere Project, RFID ID
Story #1: G20 Nations Chase Tax Evaders With Plan To Swap Data Globally // Story #2: AT&T Helps DEA Collect More Phone Calls Than NSA // Story #3: California Abruptly Drops Plan to Implant RFID Chips in Driver’s Licenses
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Advocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein selected for Obama’s NSA Review Committee
from emptywheel.net: ABC reports that, along with former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell, former Homeland Security Czar Richard Clarke, and former Obama special assistant for economic policy Peter Swire, the White House (or James Clapper — who knows at this point) has picked Cass Sunstein for its Review Committee on NSA programs. Frankly, a lot…
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New World Next Week: Episode162 – Terrorganda, DEA Data, Eminent Domain
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode162 – Terrorganda, DEA Data, Eminent Domain Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Ex-NSA Chief Calls Transparency Groups, Hackers Next Terrorists Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon…
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Has the Gov’t Lied on Snooping? Let’s Go to the Videotape
from propublica.org: Since Edward Snowden leaked documents detailing the NSA’s sweeping surveillance programs, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was forced to admit that part of his congressional testimony was “erroneous.” Here are six claims about NSA surveillance that have been undermined by recent disclosures. Read the full story: http://propub.ca/nsa-claims