Tag Archives: Privacy

Jon Evans over at TechCrunch makes the case that America should give Edward Snowden a medal. To many, of course, that’s a non-starter; Snowden is the ultimate traitor doing his best to harm his country. Cooler heads, including Evans, are … Continue reading →

Last March, I wrote about revelations that the CIA was spying on the U.S. Senate. At the time, CIA head John Brennan denied the allegation and heaped scorn on the very idea. Now, Brennan has admitted that, well yes, they … Continue reading →

Here in the United States, the EFF is prosecuting a suit on the NSA’s indiscriminate collection of Americans’ private digital communications. In 2008 they filed the Jewel v. NSA case alleging that the NSA’s wholesale vacuuming up of Americans’ communications … Continue reading →

The Targets Here in the U.S., today is independence day. It’s a day to celebrate our forebears’ refusal to submit to what they considered unjust treatment at the hands of their government. One of their major complaints was general warrants: … Continue reading →

There have been couple of interesting articles about Edward Snowden recently. The first reports that a year after the event a majority of Americans believe Snowden did the right thing. I don’t know for sure but I’d be willing to … Continue reading →

We knew about the NSA’s intercepting network equipment and installing backdoor hardware before shipping it on to its intended destination. The idea, of course, was to enable easy access to networks that would otherwise hard to exploit. The NSA describes … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I wrote about the increased commitment to transparency being exhibited by many of the tech companies. Silk is a platform for visualizing information interactively. The staff at Silk has put together a database of information on government requests for … Continue reading →

In the aftermath of the push back from the Snowden revelations American tech companies are feeling the heat about suspicions they are a bit too cooperative with the NSA and various law enforcement agencies. Now they are endeavoring to put … Continue reading →

Edward Snowden asks an embarrassing question: Why hasn’t the Director of National Intelligence been punished for lying to Congress? After all, for the relatively trivial offense of lying to Congress about steroid use, Barry Bonds was convicted of a felony. … Continue reading →

The NSA and its apologists are fond of insisting that the NSA’s mission is to monitor our enemies and that any interception of Americans’ or American Allies’ communications are incidental and that such data, once collected, is promptly destroyed. Only … Continue reading →