metadata
-
Video: Former CIA director: ‘We kill people based on metadata’
The comments were made during a debate at Johns Hopkins University, after Georgetown University Law Center professor David Cole detailed the kind of information the government can obtain simply by collecting metadata – who you call, when you call them, how long the call lasts, and how often calls between the two parties are made. Continue reading
-
Former High-Level NSA Official: Drone Strikes by Metadata Alone “Undisciplined Slaughter”
In Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald’s new report based on interviews with drone targeting program whistleblowers as well as Edward Snowden, they point out that targets for drone strikes are picked almost entirely using “metadata” … and that human intelligence isn’t used to confirm that actual bad guys are being targeted. Continue reading
-
Police State UK: Kick starting a movement against mass surveillance By Anthony Barnett
We are sleepwalking into despotism. Especially here in Britain. The fact of the nascent despotism is obvious. The UK state is developing systems of total surveillance to collect the metadata that maps the pattern of everyone’s relationships, movements, reading and communications. At the same time it is creating secret courts that will protect its use… Continue reading
-
9/11 Commission Chairs: NSA Spying Is “Out of Control”
The NSA’s metadata program was put into place with virtually no public debate, a worrisome precedent made worse by erecting unnecessary barriers to public understanding via denials and misleading statements from senior administration officials. Continue reading
-
NSA Whistleblowers: NSA Collects ‘Word for Word’ Every Domestic Communication
Binney and Tice confirmed that the NSA is recording every word of every phone call made within the United States Continue reading
-
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’ By Glenn Greenwald
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading
-
New NSA leaks show email surveillance under Obama
The Obama administration permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and Internet usage of Americans for more than two years, new documents reveal. Continue reading
-
Google Handed Over Emails of Wikileaks Volunteers to U.S. Government By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
After receiving secret court orders, Google handed over data from the Gmail accounts of two former Wikileaks volunteers to the U.S. government. The orders, revealed on Friday by the two targets, are a snapshot of the rumored federal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Continue reading
-
NSA Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some
The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls…Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed… Continue reading
-
Metadata” Can Tell the Government More About You Than the Content of Your Phonecalls
The government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the calls. But technology experts say that “metadata” can be more revealing than the content of your actual phone calls. Continue reading
-
NSA telephone, Internet spying data shared with British Intelligence
Data covertly collected by the US National Security Agency (NSA) from American telecom and Internet firms has been shared with its British counterpart, media reports revealed. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 