PRISM
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Microsoft Allowed the NSA Access to Skype, Skydrive and Outlook
Microsoft colluded with the NSA by handing over access to encrypted messages, files seen by the Guardian reveal. The company helped the agency circumvent encryption and gain access to web chats, email and cloud storage. Read More »
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Polish NGO To Obama: Mass Surveillance Is Not Freedom
...Since October 2013, the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish NGO, has tried to understand the relationship between the Polish and United States’ secret service organizations. Panoptykon believes that the Polish government, by accepting mass and pre-emptive surveillance, is reverting back to the much contested practices of the former, authoritarian regime—practices that triggered the revolution 25 years ago...
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PRISM Could Put The Kibosh On US Trade Abroad
Europeans are not taking revelations about the U.S. government's PRISM surveillance program in stride, and that could be exceedingly bad for U.S. businesses. One sector that's already seeing cause for alarm is cloud services. Read More »
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Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted. To do this reliably, we must reduce the surveillance capacity of the systems we use. Read More »
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The Coming Push For Open Source Everything
When we can no longer trust proprietary hardware or software, open source becomes the only option Read More »
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The NSA And Big Data: What IT Can Learn
Enterprises can put the tools Big Brother uses to analyze our online activities to productive use. Here's how. Read More »
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Want A Cloud Where You Call The Shots? Consider ownCloud
Nervous about the NSA, PRISM and your public cloud? Not sure you want to put all your data eggs in one Amazon Web Services zone basket? Read More »
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Why We Should Care About What The NSA May Or May Not Be Doing
Response to NSA data mining and the troubling lack of technical details, Facebook's Open Compute data center, and local police are growing their own DNA databases. Read More »
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Will PRISM Hinder State And Local Open-Data Efforts?
In recent years, many state and local governments have put effort into open data projects that would inspire developers to create apps and find ways to use public data to bring value to their communities. Read More »
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‘We Kill People Based On Metadata’
If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”
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