Wiretapping

Counterterrorism Chief Urges Congress To Renew Surveillance Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: National Counterterrorism Center, Warrantless Wiretapping, Drone Attacks, Intelligence, Video, Counterterrorism, Matthew Olsen, Nctc Matthew Olsen, Secret Courts, Wiretapping, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Nctc, Fisa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government's top official in charge of analyzing intelligence warned Congress Wednesday not to "wait until the last minute" ...

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Report: Government Surveillance Requests Up In 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: FISA Court, Patriot Act, Video, FISA Bill, Terrorism, Wiretapping, Fbi, Fisa, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

The federal government submitted 1,745 applications in 2011 to a secret intelligence court to investigate -- mostly through wiretapping -- suspected c...

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Everybody's a Target in the American Surveillance State

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Nsa, Surveillance, Utah Data Center, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Wiretapping, Government Surveillance, National Security Agency, Cybersecurity, Online Privacy, Privacy, Technology News

Can freedom in the United States continue to flourish and grow in an age when the physical movements, individual purchases, conversations, and meetings of every citizen are constantly under surveillance by private companies and government agencies?

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Police Abuse Videos: The New Era of Oversight

Adam Winkler | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Police Brutality, Politics, Video, U.S. Constitution, Constitution, Police, Wiretapping, Free Speech, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

When a UC Davis police officer took out a can of pepper spray and calmly doused a group of passive, nonviolent Occupy protesters sitting on a campus pathway, he should have known that all of the world would witness his horrific act.

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Who Knows Where I Am? What Do They Do With the Information?

Susan Landau | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Cellphone Tracking, Online Privacy, Wiretapping, Technology News

A FOIA request by the ACLUhas revealed a Department of Justice memo showing Verizon keeps tracking data for "a rolling year," T-Mobile officially for 4-6 months, but "really a year or more," AT&T/Cingular since July 2008, Sprint for 18-24 months. That's not all.

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Federal Appeals Court Considers Wiretapping Lawsuits

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Politics News, Congress, Tech News, Lawsuits, Wiretapping, Appeals Court, 9/11, Telecommunications, National Security Agency, Seattle, Telecoms, Wire Tapping, September 11th, September 11 Anniversary, Politics News

SEATTLE — Lawyers for civil liberties groups asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to revive two groups of lawsuits claiming the government ha...

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Undercover Investigation Breaks Open Massive Sex Trafficking Ring

Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Vice Lords, Cpd, Crime, Undercover Investigation, Sex Ring, Garry McCarthy, Sex Trafficking, Gang Crime, Wire Tapping, Travis Creekmore, Prostitution, Katrina Zaia, Sex Crimes, Wiretapping, Chicago Police Department, Anita Alvarez, Chicago Gangs, Video, Chicago News

Eight men and one woman were charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and human trafficking Wednesday following an 18-month undercover inv...

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Data Retention? News of the World Demos the Risks

Susan Landau | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Rogue Insiders, Communications, Security, Fbi, Privacy, Wiretapping, Phone Hacking, News of the World, Data Retention, Technology News

It is quite ironic that the same week the news about the News of the World hacking was finally breaking, Congress held a hearing on data retention, the proposal that Internet service providers be required to retain customer information.

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Where Have All the Wiretap Reports Gone?

Susan Landau | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Oversight, Voip, Encryption, Title III, Wiretapping, Warrantless Wiretapping, Wiretapping Violations, NSA Wiretapping, Wiretapping Laws, Technology News

Providing data in the Wiretap Report is not simply compliance with 40-year-old legislation. That information is what allows us to understand what's true about this highly intrusive and secretive investigative technique and what's not.

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Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: After Bin Laden -- Impact on al Qaeda, Torture, Bush, Obama?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Wayne Barrett, Wiretapping, George W. Bush, Waterboarding, Mary Matalin, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Torture, Special Interests, Politics News

Mary and Wayne Barrett debate what bin Laden's demise says about Obama -- no more 97 pound weakling! -- and about W and torture. Then, should Dems duplicate Rove's secret money machine?

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Blagojevich Seeks To Toss Wiretaps

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Attorneys for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Monday to bar prosecutors from playing any FBI wiretap recordi...

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Secrets

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whistleblowers, Fair Game, Secrecy, Wiretapping, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Aclu, Scooter Libby, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Government secrecy is increasingly the norm. At the same time, government surveillance is pervasive, reversing the proper relationship between a democratic government and its citizens.

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The FBI Wiretap Plan: Upsetting the Security Equation

Susan Landau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wiretap, Facebook, Fbi, National Security, Wiretapping, Technology News

The FBI's current proposed rewrite of wiretap law creates serious security risks.

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U.S. Pushes To Ease Technical Obstacles To Wiretapping

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comcast, Verizon, Wiretapping, Wiretapping Technology, Surveillance, Privacy, Att, Justice Department, Telecommunications, Politics News

Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requi...

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Wrong Direction on Privacy

Susan Landau | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: National Security Letters, Privacy, Fbi, Wiretapping, Technology News

There is no question that bad actors, from criminals and terrorists use the network to conduct their activities. But better protections for transactional information needs to be part of new wiretap law.

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Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent -- Not A Single Request Refused

wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to a report re...

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Ruling Against Bush Wiretaps Also Slaps Down Obama's Executive Overreach

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wednesday's landmark court ruling that the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program was flatly illegal is, unfortunately, not only of hi...

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Is Your Email Private?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Illegal Wiretapping, Terrorism Surveillance Program, Congress, Judiciary Committee, Bush, Pat Leahy, Terrorism, Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Email, Privacy Rights, Digital Due Process, Privacy, Senate, American Civil Liberties Union, Warrant, Vaughn Walker, Chris Weigant, National Security, Wiretapping, Wiretap, Digital Privacy, Leahy, Fisa, Federal Judge, 1986, Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, Warrantless, Technology News

Is your email private? You may think it is, but you may also be surprised how easy it is for law enforcement to access it without a warrant.

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Federal Judge Rules Bush Program Illegally Wiretapped Americans

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — In a repudiation of the Bush administration's now-defunct terrorist surveillance effort, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that go...

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Peek-a-boo: Technology and Translucency

Stuart Connelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wiretapping Privacy Issues, Technology and Privacy, Technology Privacy Issues, Wiretapping, Technology News

We live in a country where privacy is melting away bit by bit. In the interest of what? Some will say if you've got nothing to hide, why worry? But the truth is actually the inverse of that argument.

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Alexander Haig's Dark Side

Tom Shachtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sycophants, Ronald Reagan, Detente, Henry Kissinger, Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Wiretapping, Watergate, Fred Buzhardt, National Security Council, Alexander Haig, Fritz Kraemer, Saturday Night Massacre, Politics News

The White House tapes reveal Haig as the ultimate sycophant, urging Nixon to smite the enemy in Vietnam, unleash the bombs, stand tough against the Soviets, and, not incidentally, to keep Kissinger in his place.

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Who Owns Anger?

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Wall Street, Constitution, Tea Party, Palin, Lobbyists, Wiretapping, Tea Party Movement, Politics News

Let's get one thing straight. If you are angry at Barack Obama, or any member of Congress, you are angry at your fellow citizens who voted for them. There is a name for this process: we call it democracy.

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Obama Administration seeks to block wiretap suit

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wiretap Lawsuit, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Wiretapping, Obama Administration, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era wiretapping – the fi...

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NEA "Scandal": Secretly Taped Conversation Appears to Have Violated State Laws

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nea, Eavesdropping, National Endowment for the Arts, United We Serve, Patrick Courrielche, Wiretapping, Politics News

Courrielche has not been been forthcoming about how he came to have the recorded conversations, which may be a way of invoking his right to self-protection, since recording that call was illegal in several states.

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Lawmakers Weigh Patriot Act Extension

L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 05.25.2011

Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...

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