Tag Archives: Edward Snowden
Is the NSA’s data mining more about domestic control than terrorism?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged big data, CIA, data mining, domestic spying, drawing, National Security Agency, NSA, observations, PRISM, privacy | 16 Comments
StopWatching.us, powered by Mozilla, seeks to catalyze a Big Data resistance movement
Mozilla, the non-profit organization responsible for the popular Firefox web browser, has apparently stepped into the fray to lead the protest against our government’s recently uncovered campaign to aggressively monitor, record and mine the private communications of law-abiding American citizens. Saying, “We don’t want an Internet where everything we do is secretly tracked or logged […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Fowler, big data, data mining, domestic spying, FISA, internet, Mozilla, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, petitions, PIPA, PRISM, privacy, PROTECT IP Act, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, StopWatching.Us, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, thoughtcrime, War on Terror | 9 Comments
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden comes clean on why he turned over classified government documents to the press, just how much the intelligence community knows about us, and what his actions will likely cost him
Earlier today, the identity of last week’s much-talked-about National Security Agency whistleblower was made public. His name is Edward Snowden, and he’s a former technical assistant for the CIA, who, most recently, worked for the NSA through the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d highly recommend that you watch […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Booz Allen Hamilton, Bradley Manning, Bush, China, Constitution, Courage, Dianne Feinstein, domestic spying, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, espionage, Espionage Act, Facebook, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Glenn Greenwald, Google, Microsoft, Nathan Hale, national security, National Security Agency, NSA, Obama, PalTalk, Patriot Act, patriotism, PRISM, privacy, Protect America Act, Skype, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, telecommunications, threats to Democracy, treason, Verizon, War on Terror, whistle blower, Yahoo, YouTube | 43 Comments