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Ruling shows NSA misled the FISC about data collection volume and scope

A (redacted) FISA court opinion released yesterday by the US government has shown that in 2011, a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that for …

Bradley Manning gets 35 years in prison for leaking army documents

Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old former US intelligence analyst who has admitted to having leaked over 700,000 secret government documents to WikiLeaks, has been sentenced to …

NSA surveillance system can listen to 75% of US Internet traffic

Another day, another set of revelations about NSA’s Internet surveillance capabilities and practices. Current and former government officials that (predictably) …

Miranda battles to have seized stuff back, Guardian details drive destruction

David Miranda, the partner of The Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, has employed UK lawyer firm Bindmans LLP to inform the British Home Office that they will challenging the …

Is evading an IP address block to access a website against the law?

A ruling in a lawsuit mounted by Craigslist and against ad indexing firm 3Taps has once again brought attention to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), its vague wording, …

The erosion of privacy in the digital world

Yves Le Roux is the Technology Strategist at CA Technologies and Chair of ISACA’s Data Privacy Task Force. In this interview he discusses the evolution of the digital …

UK agents detain Greenwald’s partner, destroy The Guardian’s hard drives

It has been an eventful weekend for The Guardian newspaper, its reporter Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda, as the British police held the latter and questioned …

Lavabit owner risks arrest for not complying with surveillance order

The incessant revelations fueled by the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have made people reevaluate their expectations of privacy and their beliefs on …

NSA internal audit reveals thousands of privacy violations

An internal NSA audit document and several other seen by The Washington Post journalists prove that there have been over a 1,000 violations of FISA and presidential executive …

Obama’s “independent” intelligence review group selected by DNI Clapper

After his speech about transparency and greater oversight over US surveillance programs, as well as the announcement about forming an “independent”, …

Exploring critical infrastructure security and government cyber security

Chris Folk is the Director of National Protection Portfolio, The MITRE Corporation. Folk oversees work program development and delivery to: the DHS National Protection and …

Obama defends surveillance programs, promises more oversight

Late last Friday, US president Barack Obama has held a press conference centered mostly on US surveillance programs, the details of which have been leaked, bit by bit, by …

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