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Government Seeks to Fine Companies for Not Complying With Wiretap Orders

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Apr. 30 (News) - It isn’t often that communications companies push back against government requests to monitor customers and hand over information about them, but a government task force is seeking to make it even harder for companies to say no. The task force is pushing for legislation that would penalize companies like Google, Facebook and Skype that fail to comply with court orders for wiretapping, according to the Washington Post. The cost of non-complying would be an escalating series of fines, starting at tens of thousands of dollars. Fines that remained unpaid after 90 days would double daily.

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PA Court Deals Blow to Fracking Industry and Corporate 'Privacy Rights'

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Steven Rosenfeld - Apr. 17 (News Report) - "Whether a right of privacy for businesses exists within the prenumbral rights of Pennsylvania's constitution is a matter of first impression," wrote Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge Debbie O'Dell Seneca late last month. "It does not."

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As Spy Drones Come to the U.S., We Must Protect Our Privacy

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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Google Concedes That Drive-by Prying Violated Privacy

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Streitfeld - Mar. 12 (News Report) - The $7 million fine was for the secret collection of personal information from wireless networks as Google photographed houses and offices for its maps service.

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Anonymous Hack Of Bank Of America

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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HTC Settles F.T.C. Charges Over Security Flaws in Devices

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Edward Wyatt - Feb. 23 () - The Federal Trade Commission charged HTC with customizing software on its phones in ways that could steal personal information and surreptitiously send text messages.

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Industry Outlook Panel Yields Words to Thrive By

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

siia.net - By Ronn Levine - Feb. 06 (Review) - “How far can companies go before they annoy their users?” asked Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, at last week’s Breakthrough: IIS 2013 Conference in New York. With Facebook’s new Search Graph, Google’s deeper searches and other initiatives based on user data, will the time come where people say the loss of privacy is not worth the enhanced information they can get?

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U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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Congress Disgracefully Approves the FISA Warrantless Spying Bill for Five More Years, Rejects All Privacy Amendments

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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NSA Gets Another 5 Years to Spy On You Without Warrants - FISA Renewed Along With All of Its Major Problems

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

dslreports.com - Dec. 28 (Opinion) - Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) offered an amendment to the surveillance bill that would have forced the government to declassify the rulings or at least summaries of them....Merkley's amendment failed, with 37 in favor and 54 against. Another amendment from

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Fight Over FISA Brewing in Senate

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in 'Catch-22' Predicament

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 15 (News) - State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in 'Catch-22' Predicament

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The U.N. Fought The Internet -- And The Internet Won; WCIT Summit In Dubai Ends

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 14 (News) - Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans

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They can hear you: US buses fitted with eavesdropping equipment

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

rt.com - Dec. 11 (News) - Cities across America are equipping their public transport systems with audio recording devices, potentially storing every word spoken by passengers onboard. Rights activists say the surveillance plan by far exceeds what is necessary for security. The m

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Cops demand that Congress force telecoms to archive all text messages

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

rt.com - Dec. 03 (News) - US cell phone service providers could be required to log personal text messages for upwards of two years if a proposal submitted by a group of law enforcement professionals can successfully plead with Congress. According to a report published this week b

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Rating Obama's promises on cybersecurity

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Molly Moorhead - Nov. 28 (Fact Check) - President Barack Obama promised during his 2008 campaign to mandate standards for securing personal data and to require companies to disclose data breaches. They’re both consumer-friendly goals that get talked about a lot. But passing them into law? That’s another story.

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Won Direction

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - Nov. 21 (Comedy News) - New Rule: Now that he's been reelected, President Obama must get back at all those right wing hacks who tried to paint him as an angry black man pushing a liberal agenda by becoming an angry black man who's pushing a liberal agenda.

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Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-Mail Without Warrants

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - Nov. 20 (News) - Sen. Patrick Leahy previously said his bill boosts Americans' e-mail privacy protections by "requiring that the government obtain a search warrant." That's no longer the case. Sen. Patrick Leahy previously said his bill boosts Americans' e-mail privacy p

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Google report reveals sharp increase in government requests for users' data

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Nov. 13 (News) - Authorities made more than 20,000 requests in first half of 2012, with US government making most demands for online details • Get the data behind this report and charts Government surveillance of citizens' online lives is rising sharply around the world, according to Google's latest report on requests to remove content and hand over user data to official agencies. In the first six months of this year, authorities worldwide made 20,939 requests for access to personal data from Google users, including search results, access to Gmail accounts and removal of YouTube videos. Requests have risen steeply from a low of 12,539 in the last six months of 2009, when Google first published its Transparency Report. Authorities made 1,791 requests for Google to remove 17,746 pieces of content in the first half of 2012, almost twice as many as the 949 requests made in the same period last year, and up from 1,048 requests made in the last six months of 2011. "This is the sixth time we've released this ...

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Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Oct. 10 (News Report) - The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law.

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Government Spies Illegally Bugged Kim Dotcom, Prime Minister Admits | TorrentFreak

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? Obama Has an App for That

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - Aug. 03 (News) - Screenshots taken from two different searches of the Obama for America app, which displays the names and addresses of nearby Democratic voters. Added to your activity feed: The app, released last week, includes a Google map for canvassers that recognizes

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Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, Secret Spy Powers

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - May. 31 (News) - Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, Secret Spy Powers

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New Legislation Would Give Power to Keyboard Cops

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Naomi Wolf - May. 07 (Special Report) - The respected Internet technology site Techdirt has called the bill "insanity." It has written that "CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information ... for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as [it] can claim someone committed a ‘cybersecurity crime.'"

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