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World Leaders Want More Answers on NSA Surveillance Program
Data protection chiefs and analysts in E.U., Pakistan, South Africa and Canada expressed concerns at the news of broad surveillance programs that spy on Americans.
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Obama's Verizon Phone Records Collection Carries on Bush's Work
Candidate Obama criticized policies allowing phone calls to be monitored; in office, he has continued and even extended them.
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The NSA, Surveillance and the Chronic State of Terror
Why would a court order, or the government that created it, or the major telecommunication company that enforced it, have a problem discussing details of the agreement if their intentions were as sacred as they claimed?
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The NSA's Phone Surveillance is Illegal
The Obama administration's surveillance of tens of millions of Verizon phone calls is questionable at best and illegal at worst, a top privacy-rights advoca
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Institutionalized Spying On Americans, a History
Big Brother is no longer fiction. It’s official U.S. policy, as manufactured national security threats have come to matter more than fundamental freedoms.
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In 5-4 Decision, Supreme Court Stands By FISA Eavesdropping Law
The Supreme Court turned back a challenge to a federal law that broadened the government’s power to eavesdrop on international phone calls and e-mails.
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How Dangerous Has the NSA Become?
We think we're protected by the First and the Fourth Amendments. But we are spied upon to a stunning degree, with the U.S. government intercepting a reported 1.7 billion messages a day from American citizens.
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5 More Years of Warrantless Wiretapping from the U.S. Government
Welcome to 2013: Congress has pushed through a reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, extending the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program for another five years.
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Expiring Warrantless Spy Bill to Be Reauthorized by Year's End
U.S. spies can rest easy knowing that the nation's warrantless wiretapping program won't expire at year's end.
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FISA Goes to the Supreme Court
The U.S. government insists that Americans don’t have the right to challenge a law that lets the National Security Agency eavesdrop on the intimate communications of anyone in the country. But all that could change.
