Mass surveillance of electronic communications is a vast, new, government intrusion on the privacy of innocent people worldwide. It is a violation of International human rights law. Without checks and balances, its use will continue to spread from country to country, corrupting democracies and empowering dictators.
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The past nine months have been a real getting-to-know-you period between the National Security Agency and the American people, but the balance of intel is definitely skewed.
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The first stages of President Obama’s overhaul of NSA data collection have gone into action, placing limits on how easy it is for security services to monitor individuals, though new … Continue reading
In August of 2013, Google and Microsoft sued the United States government for the ability to be more transparent with data requests made with FISA, also known as the Foreign … Continue reading
With eight months of freaking out
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On July 20th, 2013, two technicians from the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ looked on as Guardian editors destroyed the computers which contained the encrypted files leaked by Edward Snowden. Now, you can watch them do it.
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One can bet that there are a lot of people in Washington scoffing at this report right now. Edward Snowden is now known around the world as the former CIA technical analyst who escaped to Hong Kong prior to leaking a barrage of top secret documents implicating the U.S. National Security Agency in widespread electronic spying programs. The leaks continue to this day, only recently documents provided by Snowden revealed that the NSA has been siphoning off personal data through popular mobile applications in collaboration with UK’s GCHQ. Some might justify Snowden’s actions, even though the U.S. has felony charges waiting for him back home. Norwegian lawmakers certainly seem so, as Edward Snowden has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize once again.
Edward Snowden Gets Second Nobel Peace Prize Nomination original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This week it’s been made clear that two members of Norway’s Socialist Left Party intend on adding Edward Snowden to their shortlist for possible recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize … Continue reading
It seems that birds are not the only ones who get angry – hackers too, have emotions. They are human after all, and a bunch of hackers have defaced the official Angry Birds website earlier today, citing them as Spying Birds with the NSA logo located right smack on the forehead of the red bird. This defacement of the website came about after reports that both of the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies have been gathering user information from the Angry Birds game as well as other popular mobile apps. Rovio, however, has stepped forward to claim that they have not allowed the NSA to spy on Angry Bird gamers.
Angry Birds Website Hacked, Known As Spying Birds Instead original content from Ubergizmo. 
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The NSA has named its first-ever primary adviser to its director for civil liberties and privacy protection—perhaps a little later than you may have hoped for.
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