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(NaturalNews) I was sitting outside on my deck on a recent warm, summer evening when suddenly, I heard a buzzing noise overhead. I looked up and, in the distance, I could see an "object" bearing red and green lights hovering over my suburbia.Faint at first, the buzz grew steadily... [...]

(NaturalNews) An anonymous group of anti-NSA activists has come up with a unique way of protesting against the notorious spy agency's privacy-invading practices.They are calling attention to the NSA's continued collection of ordinary citizens' personal communications by mimicking... [...]

(NaturalNews) Well, that was short-lived.The Senate on Tuesday passed a measure that reaffirms previous legislation the Bush and Obama Administrations used to justify tasking the National Security Agency with conducting massive, and early on warrantless, electronic surveillance... [...]

(NaturalNews) There are days I just shake my head in bewilderment at the astonishing, almost incomprehensible gullibility of mainstream Americans and the media that claims to be practicing intelligent journalism. When I see the Associated Press report things like, "The NSA had stopped... [...]

By Claire BernishAfter all the outrage and controversy since Edward Snowden made the program known to the world, the bulk collection of US phone records will cease as of 5pm (East Coast) on June 1st. After the NSA did not petition the secretive FISA Court for a 90-day extension, the nearly 14-year run of the hugely contentious metadata dragnet has finally met its demise.“We did not file an application for reauthorization,” an NSA official told The Guardian.Use of Section 215 of the Patr [...]

(NaturalNews) U.S Sen. Rand Paul, one of a growing field of Republican presidential hopefuls, has once more taken to the floor of the Senate to filibuster legislation aimed at preserving the government's current authority to conduct widespread electronic surveillance of Americans'... [...]

(NaturalNews) An ominous message left earlier this year on Reddit indicated that Bitcoin users who use the wallet hosting service Coinbase may be getting tracked by government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security.As reported by TruthVoice, in March the Baltimore... [...]

(NaturalNews) One of the globe's biggest publishers of textbooks and other educational materials, which also designed the standardized tests for the new Common Core curriculum, has taken to monitoring the social media accounts of students to see if they discuss their exams.As... [...]

A security software firm has revealed that spyware has been hidden within the firmware of hard drives. According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a se... [...]

They’ve been pretty good at shutting down subversion in their media, which is required to firewall themselves from many of the psychological operations but to say they don’t cross that fine line and abuse that power is bull shit. They just made it illegal to question the fake WW2 holocaust and that’s certainly not conducive to free speech. [...]

Michael SnyderActivist PostIs it okay for Barack Obama to spy on reporters?  Is it okay for government spooks to record their calls, monitor their online activity and collect their emails whenever they want?  Well, according to a shocking new poll conducted by Pew Research, 64 percent of investigative journalists believe that the government is already collecting data from them right now.  Sadly, very few of them are publicly voicing objections.We are rapidly becoming the typ [...]

Ted BaumannActivist PostIn the summer of 1849, Austrian Field Marshall Joseph Radetzky did something no one had done before: He bombed a city from the air.His target was Venice, then in rebellion against the Habsburg crown. During the siege, he launched a fleet of unmanned linen balloons, carrying bombs made from canister shot and gunpowder, timed to drop over the besieged city.Radetzky told Emperor Franz Joseph that the effect on the people of Venice was “frightful.” Indeed, Radetzky� [...]

Activist PostEFF, ACLU Support Smith in Fighting Mass Surveillance Before Ninth Circuit.An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, a case filed by an Idaho nurse against a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone data collection program, in Seattle on Monday, Dec. 8.Anna Smith, a neonatal nurse from Coeur d'Alene, filed her lawsuit against President Barack Obama and several U.S. intelligence agencies in June 2013, shortly after the government confirmed that the NS [...]

Court Should Rule That Mass Telephone Records Collection Is Unconstitutional in Klayman v. ObamaActivist PostThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will appear before a federal appeals court next week to argue the National Security Agency (NSA) should be barred from its mass collection of telephone records of million of Americans. The hearing in Klayman v. Obama is set for 9:30 am on Tuesday, Nov. 4 in Washington, D.C.Appearing as an amicus, EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn will present oral [...]

by Bradlee Dean, Freedom Outpost: A lone lawyer has stepped up to the plate to sue President Barack Obama and other intelligence officials for illegal surveillance programs which he’s alleging violate his Fourth Amendment Rights, Ars Technica reports. Elliot Schuchardt from Pittsburgh filed a complaint last month citing Executive Order 12333, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act, and Section 215 of the Patriot Act, as stepping beyond the bounds of [...]

Activist PostThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched its updated "Surveillance Self-Defense" report today, a comprehensive how-to guide to protecting yourself from electronic spying for Internet users all over the world. "Everyone has something to protect, whether its from the government or stalkers or data-miners," said EFF International Director Danny O'Brien. "Surveillance Self-Defense will help you think through your personal risk factors and concerns—is it an authoritarian gover [...]

(NaturalNews) As the world's leading technology, media and information company, Google has been growing in power and global influence for nearly a decade. But not everything the company has done has been good -- or ethical -- or legal.As noted in a recent column for USA Today... [...]

“We hope to launch a Chinese-made desktop operating system by October supporting app stores,” says expert [...]

Americans Deserve Full Protection of the Fourth Amendment for their Telephone Records, Groups ArgueActivist Post The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed an amicus brief in Klayman v. Obama, a high-profile lawsuit that challenges mass surveillance, arguing that Americans' telephone metadata deserves the highest protection of the Fourth Amendment.Larry Klayman, conservative activist and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, was [...]

Nadia Kayyali and Jeremy MalcolmElectronic Frontier FoundationThe Australian government announced new anti-terrorism measures this week, in response to the alleged involvement of Australian citizens with extremist groups in countries including Syria and Iraq. Quietly omitted from the briefing at which those changes were announced, but separately leaked to the press this week, were the government's plans to introduce mandatory data retention requirements for Australian Internet Service Provid [...]

Over the last decade, the NSA has significantly increased the surveillance assistance it provides to its Israeli counterpart. [...]

William Binney says intelligence agencies are running government. [...]

Agency will still be able to access communications metadata. [...]

(NaturalNews) The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a report that is being praised by some groups for its promotion of the right to privacy in the digital age.The report [which can be downloaded (PDF) here: http://www.un.org] blasts the mass digital... [...]

Cloud computing hurt significantly. [...]

Forcing private companies to become mass surveillance hubs. [...]

Whistleblowers also now less likely to come forward. [...]

U.S. support for the Saudi regime is long-standing. [...]