Tag NSA surveillance

Single point post. "We can't fight for Internet freedom around the world, then turn around and destroy it back home." — Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) June 17, 2013

Britain is saying that they monitored email and phone calls from its own allies at G20 summits for mundane purposes. I’m sure those being surveilled are appreciative it wasn’t done for blackmail or more nefarious purposes. But really, WTF, I…

What if 100,000,000 million people routinely added a list of words the NSA tracks onto the end of every email they sent or responded to? This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag…

The NSA, our American Stasi, acknowledged in a classified briefing that it doesn’t need no stinkin’ warrants to listen to whatever it wants, anytime it wants to. Edward Snowden said he could listen to anything with no permission needed. Many…

Ok all you budding authoritarians, raving Obots, and the rest of you craven weasels who who think that Snowden man is just dreadful, get thee to Not The Singularity and learn “how to climb on the bandwagon and muddy the…