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Institutionalized Spying on Americans

A previous article discussed institutionalized spying on Americans. Anyone can be monitored for any reason or none at all. Manufactured national security threats, silencing dissent, targeting whistleblowers, and challenging press freedom subvert constitutional rights. Doing so is worse than ever now. Obama bears full responsibility. He governs by diktat authority. He’s waging war on humanity. Read full article...
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News Agency accuses the U.S. government of Spying on its Journalists

The U.S. government spied on calls made from the offices of the Associated Press, in what can be considered an interference of the Obama Administration in freedom of the press. AP reported Monday that the decision could be related to an investigation to determine who leaked information to the agency on a CIA operation in Read full article...

U.S. Supreme Court backs Government Spying of Citizens

AP | FEBRUARY 26, 2013 A sharply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects. With a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled that a group of American lawyers, journalists and organizations can’t sue Read full article...

U.S. Law Enforcement asks Congress for Permission to Spy on citizens years after doing so illegally

State and local law enforcement groups want wireless providers to store detailed information about your SMS messages for at least two years — in case they’re needed for future criminal investigations. By DECLAN McCULLAGH | CNET.com | DECEMBER 4, 2012 AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private Read full article...

New Zealand Apologizes for Illegal Domestic Spying

Meanwhile the United States continues to snoop on everyone and doesn’t even admit it. By TREVOR TIMM | EFF | OCTOBER 9, 2012 Imagine this: A government, faced with public evidence that its foreign spy service was conducting domestic surveillance on its residents—instead of claiming the information is somehow secret and the people responsible are Read full article...

Google Warning Users against State-sponsored Cyber attacks

This move by the technology giant shouldn’t be understood as an attempt to keep user information safe. Google, a government-sponsored data mining operation is perhaps the largest violator of privacy on the Internet. By JOHN ROGIN | FOREIGN POLICY | JUNE 6, 2012 A senior Senate aide confirmed that this evening he received a warning on his Gmail Read full article...

US Police can Search Cell Phones without Warrant

by Jay Gormley CBS March 7, 2012 Think about all the personal information we keep in our cell phones: It’s something to consider after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled it is now legal for police to search cell phones without a warrant. Former Dallas FBI Agent Danny Defenbaugh said the Read full article...

Big Brother gets Bigger in Canada

Breitbart.com February 14, 2012 (Via AFP) Canada’s government Tuesday introduced a bill to give law enforcement authorities sweeping powers to probe online communications, but the move sparked criticism about threats to privacy. “New technologies provide new ways of committing crimes, making them more difficult to investigate,” Justice Minister Rob Nicholsontold a press conference in unveiling the Read full article...