Tag: wiretapping
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The Truth About Edward Snowden
from FreedomainRadio.com: Stefan Molyneux discusses the truth about Edward Snowden and breaks down the history, origin, legality, and the terrifying reality of warrantless wiretapping, data collection and government spying. Sources: http://board.freedomainradio.com/topi…
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US reportedly bugged EU offices, computer networks
from spiegel.de: America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to Der Spiegel information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its computer network. Cyber attacks were also perpetrated against Brussels in New York and Washington. Information obtained by Der Spiegel shows that America’s National Security…
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NSA admits they listen to U.S. phone calls without a warrant, more than half the Senate skips briefing
from EndTheLie.com: In a secret briefing, the National Security Agency (NSA) admitted they can listen to U.S. phone calls and other communications without a warrant but over half of the Senate decided to fly out of Washington D.C. early and skip the briefing on the NSA’s surveillance programs. According to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), in…
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#Prism: Australia gets ‘deluge’ of US secret data
from apperspective.net: The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of Australia’s signals intelligence…
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Government seeks to shut down NSA wiretapping lawsuit
from arstechnica.com: Warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency began as a Bush-era program in October 2001; in 2008, the government essentially allowed the practice in the FISA Amendments Act. The same year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed lawsuits challenging the surveillance. At a hearing today in San Francisco federal court, the debate over whether…