Wednesday, August 21, 2013
NSA Scandal - Smartphone Surveillance - Showdown Over Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
It's much worse than that...
Top NSA whistleblower William Binney – the former head of the
National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering program, and a
32-year veteran of that agency who was a “legend” among NSA workers –
says that the NSA database is used to harass and even frame anyone the government doesn’t like.
The chief technology officer of the CIA, Gus Hunt, made the following shocking admission back in March: “We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever.” He followed that statement up with this gem: “It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human-generated information.”
Thursday, August 8, 2013
NSA Scandal ~ Even The Emails are being Read
Sunday, June 30, 2013
NSA SCANDAL ~ Surveillance Everywhere
Empire of Secrets ~ Surveillance Everywhere
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised transparency and open government yet his administration is one of the most closed governments in US history, described as being worse than even the Nixon administration.The technology and information revolution allows the government to cast its net wider than ever before; collecting data, watching, spying and analysing. As revelations of systemic snooping continue to hit the headlines, Empire asks: who is watching the watchers? Joining us as we unpack some of the known unknowns are Oscar-winning film director Oliver Stone, and war reporters Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley. We unravel the psychology of secrets with psychiatrist Justin Frank, the author of Obama on the Couch and Bush on the Couch. We look at the impact of state secrets brought to light with Dana Priest, a leading Washington Post investigative reporter on national security and author of two books, including her most recent Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State. We are also joined by Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and an attorney representing Julian Assange and Wikileaks; as well as Evgeny Morozov, an expert on internet and privacy issues, and author of two books: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and his most recent: To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.