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Phone firms balk at proposed spy data shift

Telephone companies are quietly balking at the idea of changing how they collect and store Americans’ phone records to help the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. They’re worried about their exposure to lawsuits and the price tag if the U.S. government asks them to hold information about customers for longer than they already do. President […] Continue reading →

The Data Retention Disaster Heading to the US

by: Christopher Reynolds The scandal over PRISM, the NSA’s alleged secret backdoor into some of the biggest services on the internet, shows little sign of dying down. But while PRISM’s data mining has been hidden away from the eyes of American citizens, over in Europe there is a mass surveillance program that’s been operating out […] Continue reading →

Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare

A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks. At issue is a court order, first […] Continue reading →

GOP should lead fight against the Patriot Act

And to think they told us the War on Terror was over. With news that the National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of us through one of America’s largest telecoms providers, Republicans have a chance to dramatically recast themselves in the debate over state surveillance and privacy. Continue reading →