2013/10/31

My Way News - Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers
My Way News reports: "The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden."

2013/10/12

My Way News - Growing backlash to government surveillance
My Way News reports: "Policy makers, privacy advocates and political leaders around the world have been outraged at the near weekly disclosures from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that expose sweeping U.S. government surveillance programs. [...]  Activists are fighting back with high-tech civil disobedience, entrepreneurs want to cash in on privacy concerns, Internet users want to keep snoops out of their computers and lawmakers want to establish stricter parameters."
My Way News - Groups launch privacy suit against UK spy agency
My Way News reports: "Three organizations in Britain have filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights, accusing their country's eavesdropping agency of using its online surveillance programs to violate the privacy of millions of citizens. English PEN, Big Brother Watch and the Open Rights Group claim that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, acted illegally by collecting vast amounts of data, including the contents of emails and social media messages."

2013/10/02

My Way News - NSA chief admits testing US cellphone tracking
My Way News reports: "National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander revealed Wednesday that his spy agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, in addition to its practice of sweeping broad information about calls made. [...] Alexander told the committee that his agency once tested, in 2010 and 2011, whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, but he says the NSA does not use that capability, leaving that to the FBI to build a criminal or foreign intelligence case against a suspect and track him."

My Way News - London police use super recognizers to fight crime
My Way News reports: "Charles Farrier, a spokesman for the U.K. privacy group, No CCTV, called the police's use of super recognizers 'the latest gimmick' being used to promote the widespread use of surveillance cameras. According to the group, Britain has the most surveillance cameras per person in the world."

My Way News - NSA watchdog details surveillance misuse:
My Way News reports: "Some workers at the National Security Agency intentionally misused the government's secret surveillance systems at least 12 times over the past decade, including instances when they spied on spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends, according to embarrassing new details disclosed by the agency's inspector general. In nearly every case, the workers were allowed to retire before they could be punished."

My Way News - Senate pursues law to limit NSA surveillance:
My Way News reports: "Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein says the Senate Intelligence Committee is drafting legislation to limit the National Security Agency's access to U.S. phone and email data in an effort to win back public trust following disclosures about widespread domestic surveillance."