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New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
NEW FILM TELLS THE STORY OF EDWARD SNOWDEN; HERE ARE THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS HE HELPED EXPOSE OLIVER STONE’S LATEST film, “Snowden,” bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities. Stone’s rendering of Snowden’s life combines facts with Hollywood invention, covering […]
Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools
Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools WHEN U.S. GOVERNMENT officials discover a new vulnerability they can use to hack into people’s computers, they have a decision to make: Should they keep it to themselves? Or should they warn the world? Exactly how they make that decision is a mystery. Now, two […]
Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records
Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records A PROVISION SNUCK INTO the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy. If passed, the change […]
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism TOP INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY lawyer Robert Litt has offfered a rare olive branch to privacy advocates on Wednesday, in the form of information. In a post on one of their favorite blogs on Wednesday, Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, outlined new intelligence data-sharing guidelines that he said […]
The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White
The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White The court fight between Apple and the FBI prompted a slew of letters and legal briefs last week from outside parties, including many tech companies and privacy groups. But a particularly powerful letter came from a collection of racial justice activists, including Black Lives Matter. The letter focused on potential […]
FBI vs. Apple Establishes a New Phase of the Crypto Wars
FBI vs. Apple Establishes a New Phase of the Crypto Wars For over two decades, the battle between privacy-minded technologists and the U.S. government has primarily been over encryption. In the 1990s, in what became known as the Crypto Wars, the U.S. tried to limit powerful encryption — calling it as dangerous to export as […]
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform Lobbyists, government officials, and technology executives celebrated newsfrom Strasbourg on Tuesday morning that the European Commission and the United States had reached an agreement to reinstate the free flow of massive amounts of data between companies in the United States and the European Union, […]
Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret
Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing next week on two of the NSA spying programs revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden that vacuum up domestic content despite being ostensibly targeted at foreigners: PRISM and Upstream. But, to the great consternation of 26 government accountability […]
How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning
How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning Photo: ProtonMail A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June. “This law was approved in September, and […]
