The head of GCHQ, Britain's electronic intelligence agency, will step down by yearâs end, the Foreign Office said. Officials denied his departure was linked to public outrage over mass surveillance revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [...]
A substantial part of the GCHQ's dragnet snooping program is most likely illegal and was approved by government ministers despite breaching human rights and surveillance laws, a legal analysis requested by British MPs has found, The Guardian reports. [...]
The NSA agency is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, former American intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, has revealed in an interview to German TV. [...]
An independent review board has labeled NSA hoarding of phone data "illegal", adding that while it poses a serious threat to civil liberties, it was unable to find a "single instance" of a threat to the US where the program made any difference. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released an acerbic report stating that the statute upon which the NSA program was [...]
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea (R) has introduced a “Fourth Amendment Protection Act" that would block all unlawful NSA surveillance and lay the groundwork for other states to follow suit. House BIll 2272 (PDF), which also received bipartisan backing from Representatives Taylor, Moscoso, Overstreet, Scott, Blake, and Condotta, would codify Washington State’s refusal to allow the federal gover [...]
Lawyers from the Justice Department have urged a judge to halt a lawsuit against the NSA's spy programs. This comes after the judge's previous ruling that the NSA's collection of metadata was likely unconstitutional and "almost Orwellian" in nature. [...]
Out of 225 terrorism cases on the territory of the United States since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NSA's PRISM program did little to protect the nation from terrorism, according to a new study. The bulk collection of metadata phone records by the National Security Agency “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism,” according to a study by the New America Foundati [...]
"It is often said NSA stands for "never say anything," but tonight the agency breaks with that tradition," John Miller, the reporter behind Sunday night's 60 Minutes report on the National Security Agency, announced bravely in the program's introduction. [...]
A group of former National Security Agency insiders who went on to become whistleblowers have written a letter to President Barack Obama, requesting a meeting with him to offer "a fuller picture" of the spy agency's systemic problems. The group of four intelligence specialists - William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis and Kirk Wiebe [...]
For the first time in history, all three branches of American government are complicit in violating the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution by facilitating illegal surveillance, Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer, told RT. [...]
A YouTube video in which NSA boss Keith Alexander tries "to set the record straight" on the agency's spying antics has nosedived. The half-hour interview triggered a wave of criticism from users, branding it the "most hated" video on YouTube. [...]
Israel's Prime Minister has condemned the US spying on Israeli leaders, saying such things are "unacceptable" and "must not be done" between close allies. Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded investigation into the matter. [...]
This year, Great Britain's Channel 4 selected Edward Snowden to deliver an alternative holiday address to that of Queen Elizabeth this holiday season, marking his first television appearance since seeking asylum in Moscow.
Snowden was chosen because of his disclosures of the many classified surveillance procedures in use by the NSA (and also, we hope, because his name has the word "snow" in it [...]
Edward Snowden has said he feels satisfied and a winner despite the espionage charges confronting him. Denying claims he is a traitor, Snowden said he is working to improve the NSA, something that US spy chiefs do not realize. [...]
A review group hand-picked by United States President Barack Obama said last week that the National Security Agency needs to reform dozens of the ways it does business. One member of that panel, however, says the NSA doesnât do enough. [...]
Obama's Director for National Intelligence, James Clapper, has declassified new documents that reveal how the NSA was first given the green light to start collecting bulk communication data in the hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorists after 9/11. [...]
The developers of the FreeBSD operating system say they no longer trust computer processor chips manufactured by two of the top tech companies, and cite National Security Agency secrets spilled by former contractor Edward Snowden as the reason why. [...]
The US National Security Agency has quietly subverted the tools used by online advertising companies in order to track surveillance targets and improve its monitoring ability, according to a report based on documents obtained by Edward Snowden. [...]
WikiLeaks' major achievement is in weakening the authority of US intelligence, according to the whistle blowing website founder, Julian Assange, who has just marked three years under virtual house arrest in the UK. [...]
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