The Edward Snowden leaks and related government fallout has resulted in extensive backlash for technology companies cited in the PRISM documents, one of which is Facebook. The social network’s Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the matter today at the Disrupt tech conference, saying that he feels the government “blew it” in several ways. During an interview […]
A new document pilfered by Edward Snowden — and likely leaked to the media a while ago now, based on some terms Snowden has agreed to — has been revealed by The Guardian today, in which NSA and Israeli data sharing is detailed. In particular, the documents show that the NSA “routinely shares” what is […]
It’s no secret that the United States and Israel have a very special relationship, but it might come as an unpleasant surprise that the NSA’s intelligence-sharing agreement has so few strings attached. Today’s edition of What-Has-the-NSA-Done-This-Time is brought to you by The Guardian, which revealed that the US government has handed over information intercepted through the agency’s shady surveillance programs with no legally binding limits on how the data could be utilized. While we can’t be sure of the exact nature of the raw intelligence shared with Israel, it’s likely that the information contained phone calls and emails of American citizens. Considering that only yesterday, we learned that the NSA had violated its own privacy protections between 2006 and 2009, blaming confusion about how the system actually worked, today’s development raises a few important questions about what information is being shared across borders and how exactly it’s being used. For more information, check out The Guardian‘s report, linked below.
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Source: The Guardian
The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) just today released hundreds of pages of documents related to the government’s secret interpretation of Patriot Act Section 215 and the NSA’s (mis)use of its massive database of every American’s phone records. The documents were released as a result of EFF’s ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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Court documents released today show that the NSA breached privacy protections from 2006 to 2009 by failing to hold itself up to standards ordered by court in regards to database searches. These databases contain phone records, and the violations did not end until the program was overhauled by a judge’s order in 2009. Edward Snowden […]
In news that you already assumed was already happening, the NSA declassified documents that reveal repeated violations of American’s phone records. A judge said the NSA had "daily violations" for over two years and that "thousands" of American phone numbers had been improperly accessed.
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It’s not every day you see Google, Facebook and Yahoo aligned on a issue, but a push toward increased governmental transparency is just the sort of cause that’ll put competing web companies on the same outraged page. All three noted today through their respective channels that they’ve filed petitions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to disclose the number of requests the government has issued for user data under national security statutes. Says Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell:
We believe that the U.S. Government’s important responsibility to protect public safety can be carried out without precluding Internet companies from sharing the number of national security requests they may receive.
According to a set of secretive documents reportedly authored by the NSA and delivered to the public by Der Spiegel, the security agency is or has been able to access vital data on three of the world’s most popular operating systems with relative ease. These documents suggest that Apple iPhones, Google Android devices, and BlackBerry […]
The topic of government intrusion into the public’s privacy via the technological underpinning of modern life has been a frequent headline this year, and as more information surfaced many tech companies felt the pressure from their users. Yahoo! has been vocal about its opposition to government intrusion, and today has announced its first transparency report […]
The Apple ebook price-fixing legal spat has been a long one, with the Department of Justice and Apple butting heads over various aspects of the case, not the least of which was what Apple called “draconian” suggestions on the DoJ’s part. The Justice Department later agreed to modify some of its penalties, most of which […]
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