Was China An Excuse For GOOG + NSA Collaboration?

Was China An Excuse For GOOG + NSA Collaboration? (via Silicon Valley Watcher) Take a look at this: – Google has too much information on US citizens. – The National Security Agency (NSA) has a history of illegally spying on US citizens. Yet Google is negotiating with the NSA to help it repel attacks by [...]

EFF Fights for Megaupload Users’ Rights in Friday Hearing

EFF Fights for Megaupload Users’ Rights in Friday Hearing (via EFF) Innocent Customers Deserve to Have Their Files Returned Alexandria, VA – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask a federal judge on Friday to establish a process that would allow lawful users of Megaupload’s cloud storage service to get their files back. The hearing [...]

Appeals Court Revives EFF’s Challenge to Government’s Massive Spying Program

Appeals Court Revives EFF’s Challenge to Government’s Massive Spying Program (via EFF) Justices Find that Spied-On Telephone Customers Have the Right to Sue San Francisco – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today blocked the government’s attempt to bury the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) lawsuit against the government’s illegal mass surveillance program, returning Jewel… [...]

No Checks or Balances in Warrantless Wiretapping Despite Holder’s Assurances

No Checks or Balances in Warrantless Wiretapping Despite Holder’s Assurances (via EFF) Attorney General Eric Holder gave a much publicized speech at Northwestern law school on Monday, in which he attempted to explain the Obama administration’s constitutional authority for killing U.S. citizens abroad without judicial oversight. Holder in part claimed that there is a difference [...]