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Couldn’t have said it better: Criminal NSA
This Op-Ed piece in the NYT by Jennifer Stisa Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and Christopher Jon Sprigman, professor at the University of Virginia...
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US traps Snowden in international limbo
Edward Snowden, accused Mr. Obama and the United States government of seeking to intimidate him and deceive the world because of his disclosures about the vast global surveillance efforts of American...
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US et al interdict Bolivian presidential flight
Bolivia accused the United States of ordering European countries to block President Evo Morales’ flight from their airspace, and accused European governments of “aggression” by thwarting the flight....
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Restore Fourth Amendment rally at state capitals Thursday
The Restore the Fourth movement – referring to the US constitution’s fourth amendment – said it wants to end “unconstitutional surveillance”. Reddit, Mozilla and WordPress are among the big web names...
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EU spying brought to light through French Prism
France’s foreign intelligence service intercepts computer and telephone data on a vast scale, like the controversial US Prism programme, according to the French daily Le Monde....
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South American states rally around Morales
South America’s leaders rallied to support Bolivian President Evo Morales after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board. The presidents of Argentina, Ecuador,...
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Venezuela, Nicaragua offer asylum to Snowden
Venezuela said Friday that he would offer asylum to the fugitive intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, who has been stranded in a Moscow airport searching for a safe haven....
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US Special Ops asset arrested for torture killings
Afghan officials confirmed Sunday that they had arrested Zakaria Kandahari, whom they have described as an Afghan-American interpreter responsible for torturing and killing civilians while working for...
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Brazil wants US to stop spying on their citizens
Brazil’s foreign minister expressed “deep concern” over the issue and said his government would press the United Nations to take action that “preserves the sovereignty of all countries.”...
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Privacy group goes to Supreme Court to stop NSA
A privacy rights group, Electronic Privacy Information Center, plans to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to stop the National Security Agency’s domestic...
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17 journalists assassinated in Dagestan for reporting truth
A prominent journalist who had accused local authorities of persecuting and kidnapping Muslims was shot dead in an ambush in the violent Russian republic of Dagestan on Tuesday....
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Hacker conference to bar FBI, intelligence services
The main Def Con event that takes place in Las Vegas from 1 August and will see 15,000 hackers debate security topics and demonstrate their coding prowess. The convention had been an “open nexus” where...
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Drones lead western imperialism in Africa
Nearly every day, and sometimes twice daily, an unarmed American drone soars skyward from a secluded military airfield in Niger, starting a surveillance mission of 10 hours or more to track militants...
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Feds, media pin drug murders on dead Chechens
Three men murdered with knife slashes to their throats in a second-floor apartment in a Boston Suburb; each corpse precisely positioned, stomach down, head turned a quarter to the right, marijuana...
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Judge orders Guantanamo to stop molesting detainees
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the military to stop touching the groins of detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, when they are moved from their cells to speak with lawyers. The...
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Microsoft the leader in NSA collaboration
Microsoft has collaborated with the National Security Agency more extensively than it previously acknowledged, providing the spy agency with up-to-date access to its customer data whenever the company...
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US thwarting all attempts at whistle-blower asylum
The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American intelligence contractor, from finding refuge in Latin America, where three...
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DARPA accelerates combat robot research with cash prize
A Pentagon-financed humanoid robot named Atlas made its first public appearance on Thursday. Some see Atlas’s unveiling as a giant step toward the long-anticipated age of humanoid robots. “A new...
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Russia, UN to copy NSA surveillance techniques
Two members of Russia’s Parliament have cited Mr. Snowden’s leaks about N.S.A. spying as arguments to compel global Internet companies like Google and Microsoft to comply more closely with Russian...
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US plays constitutional shell game with surveillance
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the Obama administration’s top appellate lawyer, argued that a challenge to a 2008 surveillance law should be dismissed....
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