Category: national security agency

The US is suing Edward Snowden over his memoir

Post author By Randall
Post date September 17, 2019
Categories In book, central intelligence agency, centralintelligenceagency, cia, edward snowden, edwardsnowden, gear, lawsuit, memoir, national security agency, nationalsecurityagency, nsa, Politics, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The government also argues he violated NDAs by giving speeches on intelligence issues. As such, it’s seeking to recover all of Snowden’s earnings from the book. The US won’t try to hamper publication or distribution of Permanent Record, though — doing so would violate Snowden’s First Amendment rights. It might seem difficult, on the […]

NSA improperly collected even more call records than we thought

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2019
Categories In aclu, call records, collection, data, national security agency, nsa, patriot act, phone call, Politics, Privacy, surveillance, Tech, tomorrow, usa freedom act

[ad_1] The report finds that the NSA improperly collected call record data in November 2017, February 2018 and again in October 2018. The October violation suggests the over-collection problems persisted (or new ones arose) even after the NSA admitted its error, and it might have had something to do with the NSA’s formal recommendation that […]

Warrantless searches of Americans’ data spiked 28 percent in 2018

Post author By Randall
Post date April 30, 2019
Categories In data, foreign surveillance, gear, Internet, national security agency, nsa, office of the director of national intelligence, phone records, Politics, Privacy, search, Security, spying, surveillance, Tech, transparency report, Verizon, warrantless

[ad_1] While Americans are typically protected from unwarranted searches by the Fourth Amendment, some of their data gets caught when NSA collects intelligence on foreigners living overseas. This year’s report also reveals that the NSA monitored the communication of an estimated 164,770 foreign individuals or groups in 2018, compared to 129,080 in 2017. As TechCrunch […]