Brazil Announces Secure Email to Counter U.S. Spying
AFP – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Sunday that her government was creating a secure email system to try and shield official communications from spying by the United States [...]
NSA collecting millions of contact lists
WASHINGTON (MSN) — The National Security Agency has been sifting through millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world — including those of [...]
Skype Being Investigated in Luxembourg over NSA Spying
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze The Internet phone chat company Skype is currently being investigated in Luxembourg by the data protection commissioner for possible law violations over the [...]
13 Members of Anonymous Indicted for “Operation PayBack”
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze On Thursday 13 members of the hacking collective Anonymous were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly attacking websites worldwide in retaliation and [...]
Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Possible By End of Year
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze The controversial international trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership may conclude by the end of this year, according to U.S. Trade [...]
Supreme Court Decides Against Defining When Online Threats Become Illegal
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze The Supreme Court opted against issuing an opinion on when an online threat becomes an illegal threat. This decision leaves federal appellate courts with [...]
Federal Judge Says Google Gmail Keyword Scanning May Violate Wiretap Law
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze On September 26th U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh decided that Google may be in violation of federal and California wiretapping laws for keyword scanning of Gmail [...]
The NSA has been Mapping out Social Connections of American Citizens
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze The New York Times has reported that the National Security Agency has been using its collected data to map out some Americans’ social connections, which has [...]
C.I.A. concerned about Snowden in ’09
WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a [...]
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted the National Security Agency (NSA) permission to continue its collection of records on all U.S. phone calls
By Brendan Sasso (the Hill) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted the National Security Agency (NSA) permission to continue its collection of records on all U.S. phone calls. [...]
