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June 11, 2013

Meet the contractors analyzing your private data By Tim Shorrock

Amid the torrent of stories about the shocking new revelations about the National Security Agency, few have bothered to ask a central question. Who’s actually doing the work of analyzing all the data, metadata and personal information pouring into the agency from Verizon and nine key Internet service providers for its ever-expanding surveillance of American… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Blackwater, Booz Allen, data mining, database state, intelligence, Internet, mining, Narus, NSA, prism, SAIC, security, spying, surveillance, Verint
June 10, 2013

When the Surveillance State Is Used to Investigate and Prosecute Whistleblowers, the Occupy Movement and Environmental Activists By Mark Karlin

It’s worth noting that a noticeable number of progressives are protesting not the expanded government invasion of privacy under President Obama, but rather those sites, such as BuzzFlash at Truthout, who are harshly critical of Obama for justifying a secret system of massive spying on individuals. Continue reading

National Security State

data mining, database state, democracy, Mark Karlin, NSA, Obama, Occupy Movement, prism, spying, surveillance, the state, United States, Whistleblowers
June 10, 2013

Is This the REAL Reason for the Government Spying On Americans?

To understand the scope, extent and reason that the government spies on all Americans, you have to understand what has happened to our Constitutional form of government since 9/11. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State, USA

Congress, data mining, database state, Government, intelligence, prism, security, spying, surveillance, terrorist, United States, White House
June 10, 2013

Video: "On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State": NSA Whistleblower Rejects Gov’t Defense of Spying

“The government is not trying to protect [secrets about NSA surveillance] from the terrorists,” Binney says. “It’s trying to protect knowledge of that program from the citizens of the United States.” Continue reading

National Security State, Videos

data mining, database state, Democracy Now, intelligence, James Clapper, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, spying, surveillance, United States, Video, Whistleblower
June 10, 2013

President Obama’s Data Harvesting Program: NSA as Pollster, PRISM as MISO By John Stanton

The membership of President Obama’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NTSAC) reflects the close proximity of the President to critical cyber/telecom/ISP leaders who likely get advanced warning of the incoming nukes. Some of the NSTAC members include Verizon Business Group, Raytheon, AT&T, Vonage, Intelsat, Avaya, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

Boiling Frogs, constitution, data mining, database state, Intelsat, NSA, Obama, prism, Raytheon, security, spying, surveillance, Verizon
June 10, 2013

US data mining system technical details murky

The US government’s vast online data collection system revealed this week could tap into companies like Google and Facebook without the knowledge of top executives, experts said. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

AFP, BT, data mining, database state, Google, mining, nature, NSA, prism, rights, security, spying, surveillance
June 10, 2013

The NSA’s Greatest Hits: “We’re the Only Ones Not Spying on the American people” By Burkely Hermann

The hero of the day, 29 year-old Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor, revealed himself in an interview with The Guardian: “after several days of interviews [we are]…revealing his identity at his request…“I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,” he said. Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

data mining, database state, Global Research, intelligence, liberties, NSA, police, PR, prism, security, spying, surveillance
June 9, 2013

So Just Exactly What Is NSA’s Prism, More Than Reprehensibly Evil? By Rick Falkvinge

Adding it all together, it would appear that the social tech companies did not, repeat not, supply bulk data about their users at the US Government’s will – but that the situation for you as an end user remains just as if they had. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

data mining, database state, Google, Government, Internet, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, spying, surveillance, United States, Washington Post
May 15, 2013

Freedom of the Press: Obama Justice Department Secretly seized Associated Press Telephone Records By Barry Grey

In a brazen and illegal attack on press freedom, the Obama Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the telephone records of Associated Press editors and journalists and tracked ingoing and outgoing calls on at least 20 telephone lines, including the national headquarters of the press agency and its news bureaus in New York, Hartford and Washington DC.… Continue reading

Media, USA

AP, Associated Press, CIA, data mining, database state, IRS, journalists, New York, Obama, press freedom, surveillance
October 10, 2009

Big Brother FBI: Data-Mining Programs Resurrect “Total Information Awareness” By Tom Burghardt

Like a vampire rising from it’s grave each night to feed on the privacy rights of Americans, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is moving forward with programs that drain the life blood from our constitutional liberties. From the wholesale use of informants and provocateurs to stifle political dissent, to Wi-Fi hacking and viral computer spyware… Continue reading

Liberties

counterterrorism, DARPA, data mining, FBI, Investigative Data Warehouse, Lockheed Martin, National Security Agency, Patriot Act, Pinwale, QinetiQ, SAIC, Tom Burghardt
May 23, 2009

Internet Threatened By Censorship, Secret Surveillance, And Cybersecurity Laws By Stephen Lendman

Net Neutrality must be defended at all costs. Preserving a viable, independent, free and open Internet (and the media overall) is essential to a functioning democracy, but the forces aligned against it are formidable, daunting, relentless, and reprehensible. Some past challenges suggest future ones ahead. Continue reading

Media, Palestine

censorship, data mining, Google, Internet, National Security Agency, net neutrality, surveillance, terrorism
March 3, 2009

Police State: Liberty groups unite to defend UK rights

The government and the courts are collaborating in slicing away freedoms and pushing Britain to the brink of becoming a ‘database’ police state, a series of sold-out conferences in eight British cities heard yesterday. Continue reading

Liberties

Binyam Mohamed, Civil Liberties, data mining, ID Cards, surveillance

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