Jun 28
After getting upset about the fact that Guardian has been breaking news and leaking classified documents about the many and varied spying programs of the NSA, the US Army has decided to block access to the news site among its employees.
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Jun 22
The Guardian published a new batch of secret leaked FISA court and NSA documents yesterday, which detail the particulars of how government has been accessing Americans’ emails without a warrant, in violation of the Constitution. The documents lay bare fundamental problems with the ineffectual attempts to place meaningful limitations on the NSA’s massive surveillance program.
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Jun 21
Today we’re publishing—for the first time—the FBI’s drone licenses and supporting records for the last several years. Unfortunately, to say that the FBI has been less than forthcoming with these records would be a gross understatement.
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Jun 20
In the past couple of weeks, the NSA has, unsurprisingly, responded with a series of secret briefings to Congress that have left the public in the dark and vulnerable to misstatements and word games. Congress has many options at its disposal, but for true accountability any response must start with a special investigative committee. A coalition of over 100 civil liberties groups agrees. Such a committee is the right way the American people can make informed decisions about the level of transparency and the reform needed.
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Jun 18
Want to know all the code names for America’s massive intelligence gathering programs
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Jun 15
Great news: half our senators skipped out on a briefing about NSA snooping so they could get home so
Posted in: Today's ChiliGreat news: half our senators skipped out on a briefing about NSA snooping so they could get home sooner!
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Jun 14
Facebook is finally going to come clean. Or well, as clean as the government will allow it to. Like Google’s Transparency Report and like similar reports given by Microsoft and Twitter, Facebook is releasing its data on the amount of government requests it receives. Of course, the numbers are completely unspecific but that’s not exactly Facebook’s fault, it comes with the territory.
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Jun 14
Bloomberg is reporting that the recent NSA Prism scandal is just a tiny scratch on the privacy surface. Citing "four people familiar with the process", the agency claims that in fact thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies work with US national security agencies.
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Jun 12
Spoiler alert: the country that requests the most data from tech companies is the US. We’re number one! We’re number one! This should really be no surprise for anyone who’s been following the news lately but our dominance is actually pretty admirable. Take that you Frenchies! Try to catch us Aussies!
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Jun 11
ACLU sues over NSA’s surveillance program, challenging its constitutionality
Posted in: Today's Chili
If you’re already overwhelmed by the sheer amount of activity surrounding the ongoing NSA fallout, we’re guessing that now would be an excellent time to go on vacation. Predictably, lawsuits are already being filed against the National Security Agency, the second of which is coming from the American Civil Liberties Union. Essentially, it’s challenging the constitutionality of the surveillance program in a New York federal court, deeming the initiative “one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government.”
The suit claims that the program infringes upon (at least) the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution. As The Verge points out, the ACLU’s prior NSA lawsuit (in 2008) was dismissed in a 5-4 outcome “on the grounds that it did not have legal standing to sue, since there was no way to prove it had been targeted.” Given the leaked documents involved now, however, the outcome could be much different this go ’round. Of course, one has to wonder: if all of this leads to the public shutdown of the program, are we capable of trusting the same government that started it to not actually operate it in secret?
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet
Via: Wired
Source: ACLU [PDF]
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