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Judge orders Google to comply with FBI’s secret NSL demands
A federal judge has ruled that Google must comply with the FBI's warrantless requests for confidential user data, despite the search company's arguments that the secret demands are illegal. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in
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Judge orders Google to comply with warrantless spy requests
A legal battle between Google and the United States Department of Justice is heating up as the Internet behemoth challenges the Obama administration’s warrantless requests for personal user data
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Rand Paul demands answers on drones
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told radio host Aaron Klein that the Obama administration may have made promises about drones over U.S. soil, but “there still exists a question” on exactly how the White House
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11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet
Remember SOPA? Remember how when we the people finally defeated SOPA everyone got so stoked that confetti poured out of their eyeballs and its opponents downloaded films and albums and pirated video games in
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Nancy Pelosi’s Greatest Hits
Actual quotations or paraphrases from former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): Unemployment benefits are the best form of economic development
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FBI thinks they don’t need warrants to spy on email, Facebook and other electronic communication
New documents reveal that the Department of Justice takes a similar stance to that of the IRS in claiming that they do not necessarily need warrants to spy on emails, Twitter direct messages, Facebook
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Whistleblower Outgunned in Michigan (Update)
As I stated in my original article posted on April 27th, updates on my mother’s situation would be provided as they became available. I have included a link to the official police report phoned
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How Safe is Your Digital Privacy Now That CISPA is Headed to the Senate?
The House of Representatives approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) last week just as the Boston Bombing took over mainstream news. This movement toward totalitarian control over the internet was all
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US assassination drone kills 5, injures 7 in northwestern Pakistan
At least five people have been killed and seven others injured in an attack by a US assassination drone in northwestern Pakistan’s tribal region, Press TV reports
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Obama accused of nationalizing U.S. elections with new executive order
On Saturday, Barack Obama was accused of nationalizing U.S. elections for Democratic partisan advantage through the president's issuance of a new executive order on the electoral process
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Look! Up in the sky! 10,000 drones in US by 2020
The idea of thousands of drones buzzing high above Main Street, USA may sound just a bit too Orwellian for most people. But according to the FAA, the future is already here. The Federal Aviation
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‘To whistleblow is like a death sentence’: five people who risked everything to speak out
Nevres Kemal was a social worker with Haringey Council between 2004 and 2007. After raising concerns with senior managers about child protection failings there, she wrote a letter in February 2007 to the Department
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Obama’s Executive Order Gives Feds Green Light To Spy On You
Saying that cyber attacks, and not terrorism, are the top threat to the United States, the government has now decided that the emails and web surfing history of private sector employees will be subject
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President Obama’s Second Term: Selling Death and Buying Assassins in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis
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Obama turning to executive power to get what he wants
President Barack Obama came into office four years ago skeptical of pushing the power of the White House to the limit, especially if it appeared to be circumventing Congress. Now, as he launches his second
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The Ugly Truth Behind Obama’s Cyber-War
Last week, a top U.S. government intelligence official named James Clapper warned Congress that the threat of somebody using the Internet to attack the United States is "even more pressing than an attack by
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Ignoring Whistleblowers
A government whistleblower, disclosing classified secrets, risks criminal charges. Defining restricted material usually includes a broad scope of information that casts officials or agencies in a compromising embarrassment. The idea that public servants may
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Things You Didn’t Know About the President’s Secret Army
The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC, pronounced: JAY-sock) is best known for the Osama bin Laden raid. But it has long served as the president's secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous,
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CIA Must End Silence on Drone Targeted Killings, Appeals Court Says
A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking Central Intelligence Agency documents outlining its drone targeted killing program, ruling Friday that the agency’s refusal to acknowledge the program and whether records exist about it
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DARPA-funded V-Bat drone could be flying over the United States in the near future
The V-Bat drone, funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), could very well be flying over the United States soon due relatively low asking price and features which some of the many
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