Is Microsoft becoming a transparency champion?
Your friendly, protransparency megacorporation.
On Dec 10, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Silicon Valley’s biggest companies launch campaign for NSA reform
Eight major tech companies wrote an open letter to the president, demaning the NSA stop its dragnet surveillance.
On Dec 9, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Here’s how the NSA’s phone location tracking could be legal
It all goes back to a purse-snatching case from the 1970s.
On Dec 5, 2013 by Joe Kloc
These algorithms are the only thing standing between the NSA and your data
Given the massive scope of NSA surveillance, the agency relies on algorithms to enforce the constitution.
On Nov 25, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Here’s the court ruling that let the NSA track your email
For years the NSA collected the metadata from Americans’ emails. Monday night, the 2004 ruling on the program was finally released.
On Nov 19, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to NSA’s domestic spying programs
The SCOTUS didn’t give a reason for rejecting the challenge from privacy groups.
On Nov 18, 2013 by Kevin Collier
What Apple’s transparency report doesn’t say about PRISM says plenty
Apple’s relatively low number of requests can be partially explained by the fact that the company simply doesn’t collect as much data on its customers as others, like Yahoo.
On Nov 6, 2013 by Kevin Collier
What is 12333, the 30-year-old order behind NSA spying?
Some of the largest NSA programs find their justification in an executive order signed by Ronald Reagan in 1980.
On Nov 4, 2013 by Joe Kloc
A psychological history of the NSA
The NSA’s domestic activites reveal how an organization of well-meaning agents began spying on the American people.
On Oct 18, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Email users flock to German companies in wake of NSA leaks
German email providers have seen a boom in usership. According to Der Spiegel, much of this growth is due to NSA spying revelations.
On Oct 16, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Lavabit users have less than 72 hours to get their email and get out
Act quickly. The window’s already closing.
On Oct 15, 2013 by Kevin Collier
FISA court challenges claim that it approves 99 percent of surveillance requests
FISA Court judge Reggie Walton challenged statistics indicating that the secret court approves almost every surveillence request it receives.
On Oct 15, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Justice Department ignored secret court’s concerns about the NSA
According to a FOIA request by USA Today, the Department of Justice didn’t investigate complaints made by secret court judges that the NSA misrepresented its surveillance.
On Sep 20, 2013 by Joe Kloc
FISA court to declassify more documents on NSA’s phone snooping program
The U.S. surveillance court aims to reveal more of itself.
On Sep 16, 2013 by Miles Klee
Edward Snowden’s favorite secure email service appeals order that shut it down
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is barred from discussing the order that shut down his company, but that won’t stop him from appealing it.
On Sep 12, 2013 by Curt Hopkins
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