privacy Archive
President Trump, you were right. You were clearly spied on, as Edward Snowden points out. Right or wrong, if a spy agency — via any method — intercepts, copies, or otherwise reviews your communications, they have spied on you. https://t.co/HeSzmJ66Xr — Edward Snowden (@Snowden)
You can now add Edward Snowden to the list of knowledgeable sources, like the New York Times and Washington Post, calling the latest revelations from WikiLeaks (#Vault7) “authentic” (and historic). Still working through the publication, but what @Wikileaks has here is genuinely a big
Today, Rand Paul asked a question that the Homeland Security Secretary didn’t want to hear and ultimately wouldn’t answer. What I particularly love about this clip is that Sen. Paul asked the same question that the then former Director of the NSA, James Clapper
In the process of what officials describe as ‘nothing more than a drunken misadventure…’ No, this isn’t the Onion. WASHINGTON — It was 42 degrees and raining lightly around 3 a.m. on Monday when an inebriated off-duty employee for a government intelligence agency decided
No surprise to those who have been following this year’s revelations of the NSA’s warrantless spying on Americans–and everyone else, the New York Times just released an article revealing that the NSA is “harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it
According to the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, you can’t have your privacy violated unless you are aware of your privacy being violated. That’s the circular logic employed during an exchange with American University law professor Steve Vladeck at a
What you’re about to see, below, is a powerful visual demonstration of “metadata” put together by a German website, Zeit Online. Remember all of those politicians telling you that “metadata” is “no big deal?” You be the judge:
And this is from 2010…
Daniel Ellsberg, co-author of the famous internal Defense Department study “The Pentagon Papers,” and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey debate: When Edward Snowden exposed the existence of some of the National Security Agency’s intelligence gathering operations, did he help or harm America?
Do you see any limitation, under the fourth amendment or the Patriot Act, on the government’s power to gather information in mass on people?