NSA reform options leak as Obama weighs phone tracking

The White House is weighing four possible options for revamping the NSA’s phone-surveillance activities, security insiders say, including dumping such monitoring altogether or allowing the carriers themselves to operate it. … Continue reading

WSJ: Obama Weighing Four Alternatives to NSA Phone Surveillance

WSJ: Obama Weighing Four Alternatives to NSA Phone Surveillance

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Obama administration has been presented with "four options for revamping NSA phone surveillance"—including one which would scrap it for good.

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Blackphone hands-on: high-end cost for NSA-era privacy

If you’re looking for mid-tier scrimping while you’re also in the market for total and complete privacy in all things you do online, you might want to look somewhere else. … Continue reading

Brazil And EU’s New Undersea Cable Aims To Keep U.S. Spying At Bay

Brazil And EUs New Undersea Cable Aims To Keep U.S. Spying At Bay

The U.S. government has had to make some painful explanations following blowback generated by the highly classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden. This former CIA technical analyst leaked dozens of documents revealing the U.S. National Security Agency’s electronic spying programs, and the fact that even the country’s allies were not immune from spying. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff postponed a state visit to Washington last year in protest as it was alleged that even her phone and email were spied on by the NSA. Now Brazil and the European Union have agreed to lay a separate undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza in order to keep U.S. spying at bay.

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    AT&T DOJ transparency report shows 300k+ government data demands

    It’s AT&T up next with their transparency report regarding the United States Department of Justice and the amount of demands they’ve been sent over the past year. These demands are … Continue reading

    In the latest unsurprising privacy news, it appears that the NSA and the UK’s GCHQ spied on people w

    In the latest unsurprising privacy news, it appears that the NSA and the UK’s GCHQ spied on people who viewed the WikiLeaks website.

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    European Communication Network Could Keep Data Away From The U.S.

    European Communication Network Could Keep Data Away From The U.S.

    Last year word of the U.S. National Security Agency’s clandestine electronic spying programs broke when former CIA technical analyst Edward Snowden leaked a barrage of highly classified documents. There has been a steady stream of leaks from Snowden since then, alleging that the NSA also spies on citizens of foreign countries, even those of its allies. The revelations, or allegations depending the story you choose to believe, haven’t exactly been welcomed by allies, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel being one of the most outspoken figures against U.S. electronic spying. Even her personal cell phone was alleged monitored by U.S. spies, so you can imagine where she’s coming from. The Chancellor says she’s going to talk to Francois Hollande, the President of France, about building a dedicated communications network that only services Europe so as to stop data from passing through the U.S.

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    Snowden pilfered coworker’s password to access data

    Edward Snowden’s breach of NSA data prompted a sweeping internal investigation into how he managed to pull off his mission. According to an agency memo acquired by the folks at … Continue reading

    Edward Snowden Got a Bunch of NSA Info By Stealing a Coworker's Password

    Edward Snowden Got a Bunch of NSA Info By Stealing a Coworker's Password

    It’s fun to imagine the spy games that must have been involved in Edward Snowden’s exposure of the NSA’s massively invasive surveillance techniques. But, as NBC reports, a lot of that information came the way you might snoop on your significant others’ email: He stole some poor sap’s password.

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    The Day We Fight Back: Google, Reddit & more demand internet freedom

    Today’s the day: The Day We Fight Back against mass surveillance. That’s the message from the EFF, Free Press, Demand Progress, and other organizations fighting against the NSA’s data collection … Continue reading