Federal Judge: PCs Connected to Internet Have No Expectation of Privacy
Privacy In a ruling on one of the cases related to FBI hacking of Internet users, a federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia insisted that there could be no expectation of privacy for any...
View ArticleComey: Americans Shouldn’t Expect Absolute Privacy
While most of the Trump Administration was lamenting the WikiLeaks revelations about CIA surveillance as another dramatic blow to national security, primarily in that it revealed yet more abuses of...
View ArticleCIA: WikiLeaks Disclosures Help ‘Adversaries’
US intelligence officials are scrambling to address the fallout of what some are describing as the biggest leak of government secrets in nearly four years. That may not sound like a very long time, but...
View ArticlePost-Snowden, America’s Global Surveillance Surges
If you use the Internet or have made a phone call in the last decade, your information has almost certainly been swept up in the NSA’s global surveillance scheme. Still, in the four years since...
View ArticleTrump Now Backs Permanent Snooping Powers He’d Previously Criticized
During the waning days of the 2016 campaign, President Trump loudly complained about the government’s abuse of surveillance powers, including FISA’s Section 702, which had been used to snoop on his...
View ArticleSenate Intel Panel Slips Sentence Into Bill That Risks Spying on US Citizens
Last month, the Senate Intelligence Committee branded WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service” in a throw-away sentence in the annual intelligence spending bill. The sentence doesn’t...
View ArticleNSA Surveillance Reauthorization Stalls on Demands for New Debate
The House Republican leadership has been forced to abandon plans to reauthorize Section 702 FISA, which is soon to expire and has been used by the NSA for wholesale surveillance against the American...
View ArticleFBI: ‘Evil Geniuses’ Making Device Encryption Better
Privacy and security interests in keeping personal data away from prying eyes continues to be a source of severe concern for the FBI, which wants to be able to access any data off of any device, and...
View ArticleSenate Renews NSA Warrantless Surveillance Bill
FISA’s Section 702, which the NSA has been using for warrantless surveillance of Americans’ Internet communication, has been renewed, with a 65-34 vote in the Senate Thursday following up a similar...
View ArticleFBI Memo Brings New Attention to US Surveillance Law
It is expected that a memo by House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) will be approved for release on Friday by the Trump Administration. The memo is fueling major political...
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