Tag: NSA
Mary Theroux | Friday December 16, 2016 at 7:14 PM PDT | Comments Off on If You Have Nothing to Hide . . .
For years, the national security establishment has been telling us, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” Ergo, the feds ought to be provided complete access to all of our emails, cell calls, internet browsing records, location, private in-home conversations, banking records, credit card transactions, etc., etc., etc., held forever,...
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Tags: 2016 election, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, CIA, Clinton Foundation, Craig Murray, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, Fake News, hacking, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, NSA, Privacy, Russia, spying, Vladimir Putin, WikiLeaks
Anthony Gregory | Friday July 29, 2016 at 12:11 PM PDT | Comments Off on Politics and American Surveillance
Editor: Today is the publication date of the Independent Institute’s newest book, American Surveillance: Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment, by Anthony Gregory (Research Fellow, Independent Institute). Published for Independent by the University of Wisconsin Press, this widely acclaimed new book traces the history of government surveillance in the U.S. that transcends party divides,...
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Tags: Barack Obama, Big Brother, CIA, civil libertarian, Constitution, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, FBI, Fourth Amendment, George W. Bush, Hillary Rodham Clinton, intelligence agencies, J. Edgar Hoover, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance, Theodore Roosevelt, USA PATRIOT Act, Vladimir Putin, warrantless wiretapping, whistleblower, Woodrow Wilson
Abigail R. Hall | Friday May 6, 2016 at 2:40 PM PDT | Comments Off on NSA Spying: Another Foreign Intervention Come Home
The Washington Post recently ran an article titled, “Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism.” In the article, journalist Radley Balko explains that provisions in the Patriot Act have allowed the National Security Agency to share information with a variety of other agencies,...
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Tags: Independent Review, Liberty, NSA, Snowdon, spying, Surveillance
Mary Theroux | Thursday June 11, 2015 at 4:07 PM PDT | Comments Off on Government’s Demonstrated Security Incompetence Warrants Abolishing Its Powers
The pro-surveillance state narrative says that 9/11 resulted from U.S. security agencies’ “Failure to connect the dots.” Apparently this “failure” stemmed from there being too few agencies and/or their having too-limited powers, because its “correction” necessitated the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security (is the purpose of the Defense Department—which failed to...
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Tags: CIA, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Defense, FBI, Intelligence, NSA, Peace, Personal Liberty, Privacy, Surveillance, Terrorism, Transportation, tsa
Mary Theroux | Monday February 16, 2015 at 4:03 PM PDT | Comments Off on Obama’s Dangerous Call for Collaboration
President Obama held a much-publicized White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford last Friday, culminating with his signing onstage a new executive order calling for “collaboration” between government and technology companies to fight cyber crime. Tech executives from Google, Yahoo, and Facebook to their credit declined invitations to attend, while Apple...
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Tags: Apple Computer, Civil Liberties, Corporatism, Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, cybersecurity, FBI, Intelligence, NSA, Personal Liberty, Privacy, Surveillance, Technology, Terrorism, Tim Cook
Mary Theroux | Monday January 19, 2015 at 12:13 PM PDT | Comments Off on The State of the Disunion
Top stories in world news last week: New Snowden Documents Reveal that the NSA is Preparing for Cyber War According to top secret documents from the archive of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden seen exclusively by SPIEGEL, they are planning for wars of the future in which the Internet will play a critical role, with...
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, American History, Barack Obama, Budget and Tax Policy, Civil Liberties, College, Constitution, Education, Edward Snowden, Healthcare, Intelligence, Liberty, Nanny State, NSA, Obamacare, Peace, Personal Liberty, Presidential Power, Privacy, State of the Union, Supreme Court, Surveillance, Terrorism, Unemployment
Mary Theroux | Monday December 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM PDT | Comments Off on NSA’s Keystone Kops Play Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz at Our Peril
The Cloud is not secure. This not-surprising news is among the revelations from further exploration of the Snowden archives in an article posted at Spiegel. Among the investigation’s conclusions: the U.S. government and its allies—the so-called Five Eyes alliance, made up of the secret services of Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Intellectual Property, Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz, NSA, Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Privacy, Snowden, Surveillance, Technology
Mary Theroux | Monday November 24, 2014 at 12:07 PM PDT | Comments Off on I’ll Take Market Forces Over Government Force Any Day
Responding to their customers’ increasing demand for privacy in the aftermath of revelations by whistle-blowers that the government is capturing and indefinitely storing every conversation, email, location, online transaction, and more, Apple, Google, WhattsApp, and others are developing new encrypted phones and services to thwart this now-universal warrantless spying. Simultaneously, a bill that would...
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Tags: American History, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Liberty, NSA, Peace, Personal Liberty, Privacy, Propaganda, Safety, Surveillance, Terrorism, tsa, War
Abigail R. Hall | Wednesday November 12, 2014 at 5:41 AM PDT | Comments Off on Tap and Track: Not Just for the NSA
The National Security Agency has come under intense scrutiny over the past several years for its warrantless wiretapping and other surveillance tactics. Members of the public have been the subjects of surveillance, as well as a over 120 world leaders, including close U.S. allies like German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Knowing this, the backlash against...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, FBI, government surveillance, Liberty, NSA, Personal Liberty, Police, Surveillance, The Independent Review
Mary Theroux | Monday October 6, 2014 at 8:44 AM PDT | Comments Off on NSA Mission Creep: It’s for the Children
In the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s, and numerous other credible whistleblowers‘ irrefutable revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies are capturing and indefinitely storing millions of innocent Americans’ phone calls, emails, internet transactions, and even movements and whereabouts at any given time—Apple and other tech companies are rightfully responding to...
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Tags: Children, Civil Liberties, Eric Holder, FBI, NSA, Personal Liberty, Privacy, Surveillance, Terrorism, The State