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by jdp23 13y ago
Get FISA Right has a Twitter list with live tweets from several accounts following the hearing -- EFFLive, Julian Sanchez, Marcy Wheeler, Michelle Richardson of the ACLU, etc. https://twitter.com/GetFISARight/nsa
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House Intelligence Committee Hearing 10 a.m. Tuesday: NSA Director Alexander(intelligence.house.gov)
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Although Clapper told Andrea Mitchell something different -- that he was using the term 'collection' to mean actually looking at it.
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Speaking of body scanners and the TSA, we're in the last week of the court-ordered comment period. If you haven't commented yet, please do! http://tsacomments.net/ and http://www.talesfromthe.net/
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Back in 2009 (when the decision first came to light, although we didn't know what company it applied to), Russ Feingold had some scathing things to say about it: The decision placed the burden of proof on the company to identify probl
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Tell the TSA to End Nude Body Scanners: Day of Action, Monday, June 17(talesfromthe.net)
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There's a companion story about the NSA targetting Russian President Medvedev at the G20 summit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/16/nsa-dmitry-medve...
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I don't think it's "unfair" at all to the government. They're the ones who insist on secret courts and fight any attempt to make information public. Tech companies who are actively fighting it deserve a fair amount
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Detailed discussions of NSA’s phone and Internet surveillance: a roundup(getfisaright.wordpress.com)
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The CNET “Bombshell” and the Four Surveillance Programs(emptywheel.net)
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Julian Sanchez has some thoughts on this at [1]: Legally speaking, the analysts don’t have carte blanche. In other words, this isn’t “warrantless wiretapping” so much as “general warrant wiretapping.” They can’t just tap any old call or re
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"General warrant wiretapping": NSA Getting Call and E-mail Content(juliansanchez.com)
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Individually analyzing each incoming email is impossible. So the NSA automates the minimization procedures as much as it can. Based on dynamic link analyses done by computers, scores are assigned to emails and associated profiles inside th
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by jdp23 13y ago
TechCrunch took this article, excerpted it badly, and gave it a misleading headline -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5882123
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I submitted the original (better) article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5883006
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T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Shielded from NSA Sweep (online.wsj.com)
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Yes indeed, almost all the telcos (except for Qwest) cooperated with the Bush administration's illegal wiretapping in the early 2000s. The Protect America Act in 2007 and FISA Amendments Act in 2008 made it legal -- as a bonus the FAA
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by jdp23 13y ago
The discussion from the original posting on Moxie Marlinspike's blog is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5869394 Daniel Solove's "Why privacy matters even if you have nothing to hide" is a good co
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Yes, if they challenged it and lost, they would have to comply with it. Assuming David Drummond and Larry Page's denial is accurate, there are various possible explanations. Two that leap to mind: - the government has so far held off
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Stewart Baker, former general counsel of the NSA, posted about this "collection-first model" last week on the Volokh conspiracy. To his credit, he did describe the gathering of the data as collection; but his underlying point was
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by jdp23 13y ago
The Puzzle Palace and Bamford's other books are among the best about the NSA. His Wired article on Connecting the dots on PRISM, Phone Surveillance, and the NSA's Massive Data Center has his most recent thoughts -- http:/&
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Friday: press conference/rally about NSA in DC(getfisaright.wordpress.com)
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The wording was indeed "collection directly from the servers". [1] Robert O'Harrow et. al.'s followon article from the Washington post had more details [2] Intelligence community sources said that this description, alt
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Spies Without Borders I: Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World (eff.org)
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Privacy is one of those issues that cuts across the spectrum. With Stop REAL ID, we had transgender people and biblical literalists on the same side. A friend of mine was telling me about a coalition meeting a few years ago where the lob
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This is similar to Mar Ambinder's explanation in "Solving the PRISM myseter" [1] and Robert O'Harrow et al's quotes from intelligence sources in "U.S., company officials: Internet surveillance does not indiscri
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Time for Europe to stop being complicit in NSA's crimes(neurope.eu)
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PRISM had not been previously disclosed. PRISM is collecting data.
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I don't believe the DNI because of his testimony to Congress in February claiming that the National Security Agency does not “wittingly” collect data on millions of Americans. We now know they've been collecting data for tens of
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Talk about click-baiting ... Based on what we know so far, the stories have at a minimum gotten significant press coverage about the volume of FISA requests and (per the NY Times and Marc Ambinder) the cooperation of many US tech companies

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