Tag: nsa
Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy
This is from May but I’m a bit behind in some of my reading. However
Friday Video: Edward Snowden @ TED & the NSA response
March 28, 2014
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Published on Mar 18, 2014 Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. “Your rights matter,” […]
Bill Moyers: No Escaping Dragnet Nation
March 17, 2014
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Bill speaks with investigative reporter Julia Angwin, author of the new book ‘Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance,’ about the indiscriminate tracking of our everyday lives — where government and business are stockpiling data about us at an unprecedented pace.
Friday Video: Edward Snowden’s First Television Interview (ARD/Germany)
January 31, 2014
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01/26/2014: Edward Snowden chose Germany’s ARD to make his first television interview since he blew the whistle on NSA’s global dragnet and illegal surveillance. The 30-minute interview was made in strict secrecy in an unspecified location in Russia, where Snowden is currently living under temporary asylum.
Minnesota librarians push to curb NSA snooping
In an alliance that stretches all the political clichés about “strange bedfellows,” librarians and civil
Through a PRISM, Darkly: Everything we know about NSA spying
January 3, 2014
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From Stellar Wind to PRISM, Boundless Informant to EvilOlive, the NSA spying programs are shrouded in secrecy and rubber-stamped by secret opinions from a court that meets in a faraday cage. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Kurt Opsahl explains the known facts about how the programs operate and the laws and regulations the U.S. government asserts […]