Facebook Admits Accidentally Releasing Phone Numbers and Email Addresses for SIX MILLION Users in Year-Long Data Breach Link: Facebook has admitted accidentally giving out the phone numbers and email addresses of six million users in a data breach which has been going on for around a year.
The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA To Use US Data Without A Warrant Link: Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillanceby US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information “inadvertently” collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.
Michael Hastings Assassinated for Work Uncovering Surveillance State Link: The journalist Michael Hastings, who died in what authorities have described as a high-speed car crash, was an active member of Project PM, a crowd-sourced research effort to expose government intelligence contractors.
Revealed: Yahoo FOUGHT against NSA’s warrantless spying program but lost and was forced by secret court to join PRISM Link: Yahoo’s top lawyers had a courtroom showdown with the National Security Agency after it had demanded information on certain foreign users without a warrant, but the tech giant lost and was forced to hand over the data, it was revealed today.
PRISM: Big Brother Government is Now in the Open Link: PRISM is a top-secret program that allows the NSA to directly access the servers of numerous online services and to obtain all kinds of information about its users.
Lawmakers Introduce New Bill To Compel Gov’t To Declassify Secret Court Opinions Link: In the wake of two newly published orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) by The Guardian, two American legislators have introduced a bill that would require the government to declassify FISC opinions that describe how the secret court has interpreted Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Facebook Admits Accidentally Releasing Phone Numbers and Email Addresses For SIX MILLION Users In Year-Long Data Breach Link: Facebook has admitted accidentally giving out the phone numbers and email addresses of six million users in a data breach which has been going on for around a year.
Australians Forced to Answer Questions About Sex Life Link: A survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has gone from a voluntary survey regarding economical issues such as employment, to mandatory personal questions regarding one’s sex life.
The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA To Use US Data Without A Warrant Link: Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillanceby US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information “inadvertently” collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.
Another Judge Rules National Security Letters (NSLs) Unconstitutional Link: A federal district court judge on March 15 ruled thatNational Security Letters (NSLs) are unconstitutional not only under the First Amendment but also under the “separation of powers” principle. As Alex Johnson, a staff writer for NBC News, put it, those NSLs are “the supersecret mechanism[s] by which the FBI can get your private information without a warrant in the name of counterterrorism.”
Google To Pay $7 Million To US States For Wi-Fi Eavesdropping Link: Google will pay $7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorized collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks.
Seattle Dive Bar Becomes First To Ban Google Glass Google Glass won’t be available to consumers for months, but there’s at least one Seattle bar where the eyewear will not be welcome.
Facebook Says Employee Laptops Compromised in ‘Sophisticated’ Attack Laptops belonging to several Facebook employees were compromised recently and infected with malware that the company said was installed through the use of a Java zero-day exploit that bypassed the software’s sandbox.
DHS Advances Plan For “Public Safety” Drones The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its plan to use surveillance drones for “public safety” applications, announcing last week that it had received a deluge of “excellent” responses from potential vendors and was set to carry out more tests of the technology.
Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order President Obama bypassed the Congress on Tuesday and signed the much maligned but anticipated cybersecurity executive order.
Huge Victory! 2 States Pass Anti-NDAA Bills Through Committee The day before anti-National Defense Authorization Act legislation got its first hearing in Colorado, two states passed anti-NDAA bills from committee. Both Indiana and South Carolina moved their anti-NDAA legislation out of committee.
Big Brother Task Force to Monitor “Anti-Government Extremists” Although it was not widely announced, there is a new “task force” set up to target people who aren’t in lock-step with the socialist regime.
TSA Breaks World Renowned Cellist’s $20,000 Bow One of the world’s top cellists had his rare and precious bow damaged after Transportation Security Administration workers at the airport in Chicago brutally and carelessly probed his cello case.
Did You Know DHS Can Seize And Search Your Electronic Devices Without Any Suspicion, For Any Reason, Within 100 Miles Of A Border? The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.
Can You Erase Yourself From the Internet? Once it’s online, it’s online for good. That’s the lesson many people learn the hard way through social media, as personal messages go public and private photos end up in places they were never intended to be.
Libertarians are Terrorists! Martin Luther King, Jr. was a domestic terrorist. Or at least that’s how the government saw it back in the 1960s, when Dr. King threatened the status quo and forced the nation to question its constitutional responsibilities.
Privacy-Killing Executive Order Expected Soon From Obama The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is back, albeit with expected revisions. CISPA author Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD and co-author Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) are planning to reintroduce the bill in the House. But, this time they are working in conjunction with the White House in order to avoid a veto from President Obama.
CISPA’s Back: Hacking, Online Espionage Resurrect Cybersecurity Bill The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced before the US House next week following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. Civil liberties advocates have criticized the bill for violating privacy laws.
DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.
House Panel to Reintroduce Cyber Bill The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee plan to re-introduce on Wednesday a controversial cybersecurity bill that has faced pushback from the White House.
