Now Feds Want Your Mental Health Records
By binaryloop | Liberty Crier Privacy experts are warning of a strategy embedded inside a federal plan to adjust privacy rules so that the federal government can access Americans’ mental health records as part of Barack Obama’s war on gun ownership. According to the plan, the government would be told the details right away if anyone is [...]
Read More →Russian journalist beaten by police in Istanbul
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has been beaten and detained by police near the Taksim Square in Istanbul. At present, he is in hospital under guard.
Read More →Microsoft, Facebook release stats to reassure users on NSA surveillance
Following whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks of National Security Agency documents pointing to mass online surveillance, both Facebook and Microsoft have released details on the number of legal orders made to them by the NSA.
Read More →Invented ‘to shut people up’: European democracy smells of tear gas
RT From indebted Greece to rioting Turkey, European governments’ eager response to protests is tear gas. Critics say this answer is the complete opposite of dialogue and freedom and clear evidence that something is sour in European democracies. Forbidden on the battlefield, yet perfectly legal for use against civilian population, tear gas has become an [...]
Read More →Only One Big Telecom CEO Refused To Cave To The NSA … And He’s Been In Jail For 4 Years
By Michael Kelly | Business Insider Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is currently serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of insider trading in April 2007 for selling $52 million of stock in the spring of 2001 as the telecommunications carrier appeared to be deteriorating. During the trial his defense team argued that Nacchio, 63, believed Qwest was about [...]
Read More →Google Opens Up Some More: The ‘Secret’ Computer System It Uses To Give Info To NSA Is Secure FTP
By Mike Masnick | TechDirt Google is continuing to open up about the supposed “secret” program by which it hands data over to the NSA that has been subject to so much attention over the last week. And, once again, the story seems to be less than what was originally reported. Google’s now said that when it receives [...]
Read More →Canada has program to eavesdrop on its citizens, too
By Alec Hill | Daily Caller Canadian citizens are subject to similar warrantless surveillance of their telephone communications as Americans have been since 2007, a Canadian newspaper reported Monday morning. The Globe and Mail alleged that under the direction of Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay in November 2011, Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) renewed a defunct surveillance program comparable [...]
Read More →Obama Homeland Security Says Reasonable Suspicion not Needed for Laptop and Cellphone Searches…Hunches Good Enough
By Noel Brinkerhoff | All Gov Crossing the border to enter or leave the U.S. can mean border agents legally searching, and even confiscating, a person’s laptop, cell phone and other electronic devices—solely on the grounds of having a “hunch” that something may be amiss. This policy comes from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which revealed in [...]
Read More →NY State Secures $45 Million in Federal Grants for Terrorism Prevention
By Genevieve Belmaker | The Epoch Times Local governments across New York State can now vie for federal grant money targeted for terrorism security and prevention. On Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said that $45.3 million will go toward state homeland security and terrorism prevention programs. In a release about the funding, Cuomo noted that terrorism preparedness [...]
Read More →US Spy Chief Slams Leaks on Surveillance Program
By William Gallo | VOA The top U.S. spy chief has slammed the leak of top-secret documents that have shed light on how the government collects information on people’s telephone records and Internet use. In a statement late Thursday, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, defended the programs as crucial to U.S. anti-terror activities, and [...]
Read More →US authorities to legalize Internet wiretapping
The US authorities, at suggestion of the special services, intend to legalize the possibility of Internet surveillance. The National Intelligence Director had to reassure the Americans: they will collect information only about users, who are not US citizens./
Read More →U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
By B. Gellman & L. Poitras | Washington Post The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington [...]
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