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Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!”
Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!” Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden on Monday marveled at the puny nature of the surveillance reforms put in place two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed a vast expansion of intrusive U.S. government surveillance at home and abroad. […]
The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster
The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster Elites are using the Henry Jackson Society to sell surveillance, war, white supremacism, banks, and misogyny There is a violent extremist fifth column operating at the heart of power in Britain, and they stand against everything we hold dear in Western democracies: civil liberties, equality, peace, diplomacy and […]
Lies the Government Is Telling You—The Freedom Of Information Act Is A Fraud
Lies the Government Is Telling You—The Freedom Of Information Act Is A Fraud Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom […]
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources Two years ago, the first story based on the Snowden archive was published in the Guardian, revealing a program of domestic mass surveillance which, at least in its original form, ended this week. To commemorate that anniversary, Edward Snowden himself reflected in a New York Times Op-Edon the “power of an informed public” […]
One Small Step For NSA Reform, One Giant Leap for Congress
One Small Step For NSA Reform, One Giant Leap for Congress Exactly two years after journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras traveled to Hong Kong to meet an NSA whistleblower named Edward Snowden, Congress has finally brought itself to reform one surveillance program out of the multitude he revealed — a program so blatantly out of line […]
On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer
On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer Even in the security-über alles climate that followed 9/11, the Patriot Act was recognized as an extreme and radical expansion of government surveillance powers. That’s why “sunset provisions” were attached to several of its key provisions: meaning they would expire automatically unless […]
How Canada Can End Mass Surveillance
How Canada Can End Mass Surveillance Third chapter in OpenMedia’s crowd-sourced privacy plan. Just two short years ago, if you asked strangers on the street about mass surveillance, you’d likely encounter many blank stares. Some may remember East Germany’s Stasi spy agency, or reference China’s extensive Internet censorship. But few would express fear that western democratic governments […]
The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance
The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, […]
Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves
Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves The most important self-help step? Get into encryption Another week, another revelation originating from the seemingly unlimited trove of Edward Snowden documents. Last week, the CBC reported that Canada was among several countries whose surveillance agencies actively exploited security vulnerabilities in a popular mobile web browser […]
FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying
FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law […]
Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say
Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say Most Americans value privacy and oppose mass surveillance. The minority who don’t – and who think spying is okay because they have “nothing to […]
Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware
Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows Canada and its spying partners exploited weaknesses in one of the world’s most popular mobile browsers and planned to hack into smartphones via links to Google and Samsung app […]
Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide.
June 6, 2015
Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide. In the neocon journal Commentary, Max Boot today complains that the New York Times published an op-ed by Edward Snowden. Boot’s objection rests on his accusation that the NSA whistleblower is actually a “traitor.” In objecting, Boot made these claims: Oddly enough nowhere in his article — which is datelined Moscow — does […]
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