Forced Decryption Fought as Self-Incrimination
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) - Forcing a criminal defendant to decrypt personal electronic data compels him to testify against himself in violation of the Fifth Amendment, two nonprofits…
Senator Dianne Feinstein claims eavesdropping on phone callls is not surveillance, nor is it protected under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches.
'No phone call, no Internet transaction, isn't recorded by the NSA': Edward Snowden fires back at U.S. government surveillance denials Senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that the NSA's phone-tracking is benign…
Book by whistleblower at center of ‘Fast and Furious’ blocked by the ATF
Published time: October 08, 2013 00:20 Edited time: October 09, 2013 09:47 AFP Photo / Pedro Pardo A book authored by an agent at the center of the Bureau of…
Sharia law is now legal in Oklahoma
Oklahoma's Shariah Law Ban Is Unconstitutional & Gone for Good By ANNIE YOUDERIAN (CN) - Oklahoma's attempt to "specifically target and outlaw Shariah," or Islamic law, is…
Revealed: How the NSA will spy on you if you just put the word Osama in an email, text message or Facebook chat
An message sent to a cousin named Osama may now be enough to make any American a target of surveillance The information was couched in a set of rules leaked…
‘A massive and unprecedented intrusion’: Associated Press condemns US government for seizing journalists’ telephone records without explanation
John Hall Tuesday, 14 May 2013 The Associated Press news agency has condemned the US government for the unexplained seizure of records of telephone calls made by its journalists.…
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
By David Kravets 05.10.13 6:30 AM The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what…
Bloomberg: New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’
Published time: April 26, 2013 22:49 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative on April 23, 2013 in New York City. (AFP Photo / John…
How metadata brought down CIA boss David Petraeus
13:59 16 November 2012 by Hal Hodson Every move we make online leaves a trace. This is a lesson former CIA director David Petraeus and his lover, Paula Broadwell, learned…
US rapidly increased electronic surveillance
Published: 27 September, 2012, 21:51 The US Justice Department has wiretapped the phones of more Americans in the last two years than the entire decade before it, and federal surveillance…
Security rules for Democratic National Convention cause concern: Banned: handbags, backpacks, soda cans, drink coolers, scarves, bike helmets, baby strollers, and non-service animals” within the hundred-square-block event zone
By Muriel Kane Sunday, September 2, 2012 20:19 EDT A new ordinance for “extraordinary events” put in place by the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, which is hosting the Democratic…
Site appeals against court request to hand over details of tweets relating to Occupy activist charged with disorderly conduct
By Dominic Rushe, The Guardian Monday, August 27, 2012 16:19 EDT Twitter has lodged an appeal against a New York judge's decision that it must hand over detailed information related…
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