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Spy Chief’s ‘Unusual’ Contact With Military Official Raises Concerns About Intelligence Manipulation

September 12, 2015

Spy Chief’s ‘Unusual’ Contact With Military Official Raises Concerns About Intelligence Manipulation Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. (Partnership for Public Service / CC BY 2.0) James Clapper—Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence—is said to be in what a former intelligence official called frequent and “highly, highly unusual” contact with a ranking junior intelligence officer who sits […]

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New Snowden Leak Exposes AT&T’s “Extreme Willingness To Help” NSA Spy On Americans

August 16, 2015

New Snowden Leak Exposes AT&T’s “Extreme Willingness To Help” NSA Spy On Americans Newly disclosed NSA files expose the spy agency’s relationship through the years with American telecoms companies. As NYTimes reports, The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long […]

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Government Wants to “Implant Recipients of Welfare Assistance with Satellite-Tracked Chips”

August 16, 2015

Government Wants to “Implant Recipients of Welfare Assistance with Satellite-Tracked Chips” Implantable RFID tracking chips. You know, to stop terrorism. And to keep tabs on all the welfare queens, in order to keep tax dollars accountable. There will be other rationales, too. But really, governments just want to do all the spying they can within […]

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Psychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate Among Peers

Psychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate Among Peers A British psychologist is receiving sharp criticism from some professional peers for providing expert advice to help the U.K. surveillance agency GCHQ manipulate people online. The debate brings into focus the question of how or whether psychologists should offer their expertise to spy agencies engaged in […]

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Incongruities in the News

Incongruities in the News Jonathan Pollard, a paid spy for Israel described by Michael D. Shear as “one of the country’s most notorious spies,” has been pardoned from his life sentence. It strikes me as hypocritical for the US government to sentence anyone to prison for spying when the government itself spies on everyone everywhere. […]

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Chatting in Secret While We’re All Being Watched

Chatting in Secret While We’re All Being Watched When you pick up the phone and call someone, or send a text message, or write an email, or send a Facebook message, or chat using Google Hangouts, other people find out what you’re saying, who you’re talking to, and where you’re located. Such private data might only […]

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Spying On the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata

Spying On the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata When you pick up the phone, who you’re calling is none of the government’s business. The NSA’s domestic surveillance of phone metadata was the first program to be disclosed based on documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Americans have been furious about it ever […]

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NSA’s Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New Wikileaks Disclosure

NSA’s Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New Wikileaks Disclosure Top secret data from the National Security Agency, shared with The Intercept by WikiLeaks, reveals that the U.S. spy agency targeted the cellphones and other communications devices of more than a dozen top Brazilian political and financial officials, including the country’s president Dilma Rousseff, whose presidential plane’s telephone […]

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Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists

Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists In the summer of 2011, the CIA station chief in Berlin asked one of the most powerful intelligence officials in Germany to go on a private walk with him, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reports. The American spy had an important message to convey: […]

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Amnesty International Responds to UK Government Surveillance

Amnesty International Responds to UK Government Surveillance A British tribunal admitted on Wednesday that the U.K. government had spied on Amnesty International and illegally retained some of its communications. Sherif Elsayed-Ali, deputy director of global issues for Amnesty International in London, responds: Just after 4 p.m. yesterday, Amnesty International received an email from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal […]

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XKeyscore: NSA’s Google For the World’s Private Communications

XKeyscore: NSA’s Google For the World’s Private Communications One of the National Security Agency’s most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse. Today, The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed new […]

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The Computers Are Listening: NSA Won’t Say if it Automatically Transcribes American Phone Calls in Bulk

The Computers Are Listening: NSA Won’t Say if it Automatically Transcribes American Phone Calls in Bulk Third in a series. Part 1 here; Part 2 here. When it comes to the National Security Agency’s recently disclosed use of automated speech recognition technology to search, index and transcribe voice communications, people in the United States may well be asking: But are […]

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Meet The NSAC – The US Government’s Shadow Spy Agency

Meet The NSAC – The US Government’s Shadow Spy Agency Just when you thought you knew what the government’s spy state was up to – thanks to Ed Snowden’s heroics – along comes the National Security Analysis Cneter (NSAC). As PhaseZero exposes, they are not who you think they are. They are not the NSA or the CIA. […]

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It’s official: the USA FREEDOM Act is just a destructive as the USA PATRIOT Act

It’s official: the USA FREEDOM Act is just a destructive as the USA PATRIOT Act My general rule of thumb when it comes to legislation is that the more high-sounding the name, the more insidious the law. Exhibit A: the just-passed USA FREEDOM Act. “Freedom”. It sounds great. So great, in fact, that they stuck […]

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Eyes on the Spies: Canadians Deserve Accountability

Eyes on the Spies: Canadians Deserve Accountability Yet while surveillance budgets balloon, watchdogs starve. Last in a series. For anyone involved in the privacy debate, it’s been a busy couple of years. Barely a week goes by without new revelations about the activities of the Canadian spy agency known as Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and […]

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