Tag Archives: Surveillance

US military spied on Planned Parenthood, civilian phone calls

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 27, 2010
John Byrne/RawStory United States military intelligence spied on Planned Parenthood and other domestic groups as part of US security preparations for the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, according to a recently declassified military document obtained by a civil liberties group Thursday.
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Federal Judge Orders Schools To Stop Laptop Spying

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: February 24, 2010
kdawson/Slashdot CWmike writes: “A federal judge on Monday ordered the Pennsylvania school district accused of spying on its students to stop activating the cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops. According to the original complaint, Blake Robbins was accused by a Harriton High School assistant principal of ‘improper behavior in his home’ and shown a photograph taken by his [...]
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Shorter Question Everything

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 31, 2010
UN: Israel Israel insists troops did not violate international law despite ‘operational lapses and errors’.Israel has delivered a report to the UN defending its actions in last year’s Gaza war and insisting its troops did not violate international law, but has not agreed to hold an independent investigation as demanded.In the 46-page report, submitted on Friday [...]
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CIA Contractor Now Flying Spy Drone Over Haiti (Updated)

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 20, 2010
Noah Shachtman /Wired A controversial CIA contractor has found new work in Haiti, flying drones on disaster recovery duty. When last we heard from Evergreen International Aviation, the Oregon-based firm was offering to post sentries at local voting centers during the 2008 election, ”detaining troublemakers” and making sure voters “do not get out of control.”
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FBI broke law for years in phone record searches

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 20, 2010
John Solomon and Carrie Johnson / Washington Post The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their [...]
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The creepy mindset behind Cass Sunstein’s creepy proposal

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: January 16, 2010
Glenn Greenwald/Salon (updated below – Update II) Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, [...]
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Obama Quietly Backs Renewing Patriot Act Surveillance Provisions

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: November 25, 2009
Willam Fisher, IPS News/Alternet Three contentious provisions are scheduled to expire next month; opponents of these sections have been pushing to roll them back. But Obama seems ready to renew them. NEW YORK, 23 Nov (IPS) – With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is [...]
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How America’s Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: November 13, 2009
Alfred W. McCoy | HuffPo Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com. In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could [...]
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Maddow Rips Rep. Pete Hoekstra For Leaking Sensitive National Security Information

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: November 12, 2009
Think Progress Last night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow accused Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee and current gubernatorial candidate, of leaking sensitive intelligence information to the press. Hoekstra told the Washington Post this week that Maj. Nidal M. Hasan had e-mail conversations with a radical Yemeni cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi. Maddow [...]
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CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 21, 2009
Slashdot Tuesday October 20 An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: “In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ‘open source intelligence’ [...]
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