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Published on Nov 1, 2013
The Senate Intelligence Committee approved a bill called the FISA Improvement Act on Thursday. Committee chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called the reforms “prudent, responsible and meaningful,” but critics say the bill actually gives the National Security Agency more legal protections to continue its bulk data collection. . . From Description published with video.
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Published on Aug 2, 2013
On Thursday in Las Vegas, Nevada, the 21st annual DefCon convention kicked off. The event which hosts people from across the globe is the oldest continuous running hacker convention in the country. Groups gather to discuss the latest in technology and hacking techniques and RT’s Andrew Blake is in Nevada with the highlights of the convention.
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DEFCON 20: Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The National Security Agency and the Constitution
From RT NEWS
Published: 13 December, 2012, 21:45
The Obama administration overruled recommendations from within the US Department of Homeland Security and implemented new guidelines earlier this year that allow the government to gather and analyze intelligence on every single US citizen.
Since the spring, a little-know intelligence agency outside of Washington, DC has been able to circumvent the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution and conduct dragnet surveillance of the entire country, combing massive datasets using advanced algorithms to search and seize personal info on anyone this wish, reports the Wall Street Journal this week.
There’s no safeguard that says only Americans with criminal records are the ones included, and it’s not just suspected terrorists that are considered in the searches either. . . . Read Complete Report
Photograph via The Historic Houses Trust: Car crash, night time, early 1940s. Details unknown, but possibly Liverpool street, Sydney. SOURCE Twisted Sister
What is this… smoke and mirrors? They have been putting these things in cars for years, yet now they want to make something out of it. What are they trying to distract our attention from now? . . . EDITOR
from arstechnica.com
by Cyrus Farivar – Dec 8 2012, 1:57pm EST
But some fear that there isn’t enough built-in data protection for such devices.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed a new unified standard for event data recorders for cars, commonly known as “black boxes.”
Such devices, which are already in use in 96 percent of 2013 model year cars, record various types of data that can be accessed in multiple ways. The agency also estimates that 92 percent of 2010 model year cars have “some EDR capability.” The NHTSA estimates that requiring EDRs would add just $20 in manufacturing costs to each car. . . . Read Complete Report
from Politix
Michael Mayday, Staff Writer
Privacy advocates point to latest DC scandal as evidence of growing problem
The continuing turmoil surrounding David Petraeus’s sexual escapades with biographer Paula Broadwell has privacy-rights activists crying foul. Not over Petraeus’s affair, but over how seemingly easy it is for the FBI to gain access to multiple private email accounts without a warrant, and to do so for relatively insignificant reasons.
Current cyber-privacy laws are laughably outdated, as the ACLU notes. . . . Read Complete Report
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from the Guardian (UK)
Tuesday 3 November 2012 09.46 EST
That the stars of America’s national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice
The Petraeus scandal is receiving intense media scrutiny obviously due to its salacious aspects, leaving one, as always, to fantasize about what a stellar press corps we would have if they devoted a tiny fraction of this energy to dissecting non-sex political scandals (this unintentionally amusing New York Times headline from this morning – “Concern Grows Over Top Military Officers’ Ethics” – illustrates that point: with all the crimes committed by the US military over the last decade and long before, it’s only adultery that causes “concern” over their “ethics”). Nonetheless, several of the emerging revelations are genuinely valuable, particularly those involving the conduct of the FBI and the reach of the US surveillance state. . . . Read Complete Report
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from youtube
Published on Nov 11, 2012
David Kerley, Reena Ninan investigate CIA chief’s relationship with biographer
