Jan 17
One of the biggest stories last year that enraged privacy advocates was the details of a program being run by the NSA to store phone call information on people in … Continue reading
Jan 16
One of the more unpopular government bodies within the US would surely be the US National Security Agency, or the NSA for short, where they have allegedly collected and stored nearly 200 million text messages in a single day worldwide, at least according to a UK media report. This is a stunning figure to say the least, and it is definitely a whole lot of information to sift through. I simply cannot imagine the workers over at the NSA who will need to comb for threats by going through so much information – it sounds like a nigh impossible task right from the get go.
NSA ‘Collected 200 Million Texts’ Daily original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 16
The latest in a long line of NSA-centric leaks comes a report about alleged project “Dishfire” from The Guardian, a program said to result in the harvesting of millions of … Continue reading
Jan 16
The NSA is monitoring thousands upon thousands of offline computers every day
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Jan 15
It’s easy to call reality TV stupid. Or inane. Or just boring. But could it be nefarious? Could it actually making us all way too accepting of perpetual surveillance? Maybe.
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Jan 15
We already know that the NSA intercepts computer deliveries to introduce backdoors into hardware
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Jan 15
In what could be best described as a conspiracist’s, especially the tinfoil wearing kind, worse nightmare come true, the NSA was reported to have been employing years-old technology to aid … Continue reading
Jan 13
![President Obama To Announce Major NSA Changes This Week [Report]](https://i0.wp.com/cdnrss.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nsa.jpg?resize=640%2C360 "President Obama To Announce Major NSA Changes This Week [Report]")
There has been a lot of debate about the electronics spying programs of the National Security Agency, programs which not only affect U.S. citizens, but also those of other nations around the world. The programs have been criticized a lot as the stream of highly classified documents kept informing the public just how much the NSA is keeping an eye on internet users around the world. According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama is considering making major changes to the agency and its surveillance programs, he is expected to make an announcement on Friday.
It is expected that President Obama will extend privacy protections to non-Americans, in an effort to downplay the blowback generated after word broke that NSA also spied on citizens of friendly countries. Rumor has it that the president may appoint a privacy advocate who will argue in FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. FISA is tasked with approving requests for electronics surveillance. President Obama is also expected to meet with members from the tech community who have also been affected by NSA’s programs and its constant requests for access to user data. It remains to be seen what the president actually announces, but it seems that Edward Snowden might have achieved one of his objectives, reforming the NSA.
President Obama To Announce Major NSA Changes This Week [Report] original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 13
As you probably suspected, the NSA’s massive phone record collection "has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism," according to a new study. In fact—and perhaps more interestingly—the agency’s real problem isn’t a lack of information. It’s an excess of secrecy.
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Jan 13
The report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies on the U.S. government’s mass spying—domestically and around the globe— has much that’s good in it. As the folks handling the only ongoing case where National Security Letters have been declared unconstitutional, we also especially appreciate the recommendation that NSLs may only be issued after judicial review and subject to significant additional limitations. We appreciate their strong endorsement of strong, non-backdoored encryption. And we never thought we’d see a presidential panel explain the risks posed by the government’s stockpiling of Zero Days rather than making sure that they are fixed.
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