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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden plans to work on easy-to-use privacy tools
2014-07-21 17:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden doesn't yet know whether he'll be spending the next year in a U.S. prison or an undisclosed location in Russia. Nevertheless, Snowden hopes to work on anti-surveillance technologies in the future.
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Report: NSA Stalked Prominent Muslim Americans
2014-07-10 19:00:12| TechNewsWorld
It's been known for years that the U.S. National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have targeted Muslim Americans. What hasn't been widely known is that their targets included lawyers and some who have served the United States at the highest levels. Five highly prominent Muslim Americans were listed on an NSA spreadsheet called "FISA recap."
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Secret code indicates NSA tracks users of privacy tools, report says
2014-07-07 14:31:06| InfoWorld: Top News
A NSA spying tool is configured to snoop on an array of privacy programs used by journalists and dissidents, according to an analysis of never-before-seen code leaked by an unknown source. The code, published as part of investigation by two German broadcasters last week, contains tracking specifications for XKeyScore, a powerful NSA program that collects and sorts intercepted data.
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Civil Liberties Board Takes Heat for NSA Spying Report
2014-07-03 21:43:42| TechNewsWorld
The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has come under fire for its latest report on NSA surveillance. The report essentially says collection of information under Section 702 of FISA "has been valuable and effective in protecting the nation's security and producing useful foreign intelligence." However, because certain aspects of its implementation have raised privacy concerns.
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EFF sues the NSA to disclose use of software security flaws
2014-07-02 12:51:41| InfoWorld: Top News
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a prominent digital privacy rights group, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency to get it to specify the extent to which it might exploit software security flaws.
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