Obama-Media Scandals- Only the Tip of The Iceberg: Wiretapping of US Congress & Using NGOs as Traps for Whistleblowers

BoilingFrogsPost  |  May 23, 2013…

EFF  |  May 20, 2013…

The U.S. Justice Department put a Fox News journalist under surveillance for reporting on classified information about North Korea.

Alternet  |  May 20, 2013

How…

CBS |  May 16, 2013

The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn't plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if…

Activist Post  |  May 13, 2013

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Administration have been spying on the Associated Press without their knowledge.



The establishment news service is typically…

EWeek  |  May 5, 2013

Even if it accomplished nothing else, the Middle Eastern governments’ crackdowns on communications during the Arab Spring movement two years ago demonstrated how much governments, in general, and repressive…

The Truth Wins  |  May 3, 2013

Why do so many Americans want us to become more like Nazi Germany?  When I was growing up, I was taught that Nazi Germany was the antithesis of everything that America stood for.  I truly believed that we…

TechDirt |  April 29, 2013

We've talked a lot about how the Justice Department (DOJ), mainly via the FBI, has been pushing for years to change the laws in order to require…

DoJ helps AT&T, other service providers evade wiretapping laws so government can conduct Internet surveillance

BY NATASHA LENNARD   |  WEDNESDAY, APR 24, 2013 04:10 PM EDT…

EndtheLie  |  April 18, 2013

The U.S. House of Representatives…

End the Lie  |  April 10, 2013

As I reported in 2011, the FBI is involved in collecting and storing the biometric identifiers of millions of Americans…

Wired  |  April 9, 2013

A legal fight over the government’s use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a…

DNAinfo  |  March 25, 2013

NEW YORK CITY — Socializing online is landing criminals in custody.

Police are searching for suspects' photos on…

Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive."…

Activist Post  |  February 12, 2013

Just like most draconian legislation that politicians try to pass, the government has already been using the illegal powers and hopes to justify its actions with the passage of a new law. See…

RT  |  February 9, 2013

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…

Wired  |  February 8, 2013

Bush and Obama Have Set Us Back 800 Years

Washington's Blog  |  February 6,…

End the Lie  |  January 29, 2013

With the Washington Post reporting on the plans for a fivefold increase in the Pentagon’s cybersecurity…

End the Lie  |  January 27, 2012

Glasgow, Scotland is slated to become the first “smart city” in the United Kingdom after receiving a £24 million grant from the UK’s Technology…