Tag: Surveillance State
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Why Do People Value Privacy?
Privacy. It’s pretty important to a lot of people. I think especially Americans are repulsed by the thought of being watched when they don’t want to be. “the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.” In this article, I’ll be talking more about the ‘being observed’ portion of the definition. […]
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Rand Paul suing over NSA spying
Senator Rand Paul is filing a class-action suit against President Obama over the NSA’s spying policies. Paul claims that the indiscriminate data collection policies that the NSA has in place is unconstitutional. In the Friday interview on Fox News, Rand urges fellow Americans who own cell phones to join his suit. You can join Paul’s […]
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White House Considers Civilian NSA Chief
President Obama is considering appointing a civilian to head up the NSA. Currently Keith Alexander, a United States Army veteran, is the NSA’s chief. Alexander is scheduled to resign in spring of 2014. The White House is reportedly compiling a list of potential civilians to take over after Alexander leaves the agency. you can read more about […]
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New documents show NSA tapped into Google and Yahoo
A newly published slide sketch from the NSA reveals that the agency broke into Google and Yahoo’s servers to access users’ data. These slides are getting more and more outrageous. As you can see above, the agent(s) that sketched this deemed it appropriate to include a smiley face. Here’s Eric Schmidt’s reaction to the surveillance: […]
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Why the NSA won’t be reformed anytime soon
It seems like yesterday that Edward Snowden, with the help of the guardian newspaper, published highly classified information about the NSA and it’s spying habits. The winter months are fast approaching and Snowden’s major leak came in early summer. Of course, reform wasn’t and isn’t expected to happen quickly as these sorts of things seem […]
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Patriot Act co-author working on NSA reform bill
The same Congressman who co-authored the now infamous Patriot Act is working on a bill that will reform the National Security Agency. Jim Sensenbrenner has been working on legislation that will limit the NSA phone collection and the host of other controversial collection programs. The bill is primarily aimed to dramatically change the way the NSA […]
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NSA Targeting Anonymity Tool, Tor
A tool that protects the identity of web users is being targeted by the NSA and GCHQ. According to theguardian, Tor, a popular anonymity protection tool is being targeted for vulnerabilities by the National Security Agency. The Tor Project was primarily funded by the US government to protect the identity of internet users. These allegations […]