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Don’t Want to Be Spied On? Think About Encryption
By Fahmida Y. Rashid The twin disclosures last week about the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance program accomplished something that no amount of SecurityWatch posts could ever have accomplished: It got regular Internet users talking about encryption. Right after the … Continue reading
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Edward Snowden was NSA Prism leak source
A former CIA technical worker has been identified by the UK’s Guardian newspaper as the source of leaks about US surveillance programmes. Edward Snowden, 29, is described by the paper as an ex-CIA technical assistant, currently employed by defence contractor Booz … Continue reading
AT&T, Sprint also part of NSA’s phone data collection probe
By Sean Buckley The National Security Agency’s phone and data collection effort targeting Verizon (NYSE: VZ) also included AT&T (NYSE: T) and Sprint (NYSE: S), according to various reports. While Verizon was initially the only provider named by The Guardian … Continue reading
No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
By Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass Update June 6, 2013: This post has been revised to reflect reports of regular FBI and National Security Agency surveillance of domestic phone records under a provision of the Patriot Act. It … Continue reading
U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls
By Charlie Savage and Edward Wyatt The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly … Continue reading
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