FISA court to declassify more documents on NSA’s phone snooping program
The U.S. surveillance court aims to reveal more of itself.
On Sep 16, 2013 by Miles Klee
Verizon and FCC do battle in federal court over net neutrality
The agency’s ability to regulate broadband is at stake.
On Sep 10, 2013 by Miles Klee
Report: NSA can monitor 75 percent of U.S. Internet traffic
The Wall Street Journal has reported it’s found a long-suspected, but not yet proven, piece of the NSA surveillance puzzle.
On Aug 21, 2013 by Kevin Collier
Comcast will invite other major ISPs to join its new anti-piracy system
The system would redirect pirates to legitimate sites for buying and streaming media.
On Aug 6, 2013 by Kevin Collier
Verizon is handing over U.S. data to a foreign spy agency
The latest batch of leaks from Edward Snowden implicate Verizon in sharing U.S. Internet and phone data with British intelligence.
On Aug 3, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Verizon, AT&T never challenged NSA’s request for phone data
Judge Reggie Walton declared that only Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google have fought back against recently-revealed NSA spying programs.
On Jul 31, 2013 by Kevin Collier
After narrow defeat, privacy supporters in Congress brag on Twitter
These members of congress voted to defund the NSA’s metadata program, and they want their constituents to know it.
On Jul 25, 2013 by Kevin Collier
In nail-biting vote, House allows NSA to keep tracking Americans’ phone calls
Rep. Justin Amash’s amendment would have blocked the NSA from collecting metadata on Americans not under criminal investigation.
On Jul 24, 2013 by Kevin Collier
Obama urges House to halt “defund the NSA” amendment
Rep. Justin Amash has introduced an amendment that could dismantle the NSA’s metadata collection efforts, and the White House is not happy.
NSA comes clean on metadata: Are you within 3 degrees of a target?
“If you know someone who saw something, you should tell someone to say something” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
On Jul 18, 2013 by Kevin Collier
Privacy group takes NSA spying challenge straight to the Supreme Court
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is directly petitioning the Supreme Court to protest the intelligence agency’s practice of tracking every single Verizon call made in America.
On Jul 8, 2013 by Kevin Collier
The U.K. has been spying with PRISM since June 2010
The U.S. PRISM program, an effort to monitor the country’s (and therefore the world’s) biggest Internet companies, is now an American export.
On Jun 7, 2013 by Curt Hopkins
PRISM: America’s most paranoid fears of government surveillance are real
New leaked documents reveal the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI directly monitor nine of the country’s biggest Internet companies.
On Jun 7, 2013 by Kevin Collier
Triggering the Copyright Alert System is tough, even if you’re trying
A study uploaded popular media on BitTorrent for weeks without receiving a single warning.
On Apr 29, 2013 by Kevin Collier
ISPs release more details of new piracy punishments
Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and AT&T have spilled more details about how they’ll punish pirates.
On Feb 27, 2013 by Kevin Collier
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