Source The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”). Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the revelations on NSA spying, the reason why Rousseff can […]
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SWIFT Suspension? EU Parliament Furious about NSA Bank Spying
Source Revelations the US is spying on international bank transfers have angered European parliamentarians. Some are calling for the suspension of the SWIFT deal between the EU and US. “Washington must make clear where it stands,” says one. The recent revelations regarding the degree to which the US intelligence agency NSA monitors bank data in […]
Facebook users closing accounts in record numbers
Live on the 21st of September, 2010, ad:tech, London (at Olympia). This was the sixth year in the UK for the online marketing and advertising community to gather at ad:tech London to reveal the latest trends and market figures, share best practices and address industry challenges. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Source New research shows Facebook has […]
More on NSA Controversy, with relative news – 09/08/13 – 09/15/13
NSA gets data from Germany’s domestic security agencyPosted By kurtnimmoadmin On September 14, 2013 @ 8:47 am In Big Brother,Tilert.comSeptember 14, 2013 Demonstrators hold up a placard featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel in front of Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate as they take part in a protest against the US National Security Agency (NSA) collecting German […]
Zuckerberg Admits Gov “Blew It” When Snowden Revealed PRISM
Source Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, spoke at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, saying that he thinks “the government blew it” when it comes to revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on American communications in direct violation of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. Zuckerberg was shedding light on the fact […]
Facebook reportedly considering adding 1+ billion members’ photos to facial recognition database
Source Facebook is considering adding the majority of its over 1 billion members’ profile photos to a massive facial recognition database, according to Reuters. Though they’ve considered this move in the past, the process was delayed by a significant amount of outcry from European legislators. That hasn’t stopped them from developing the technology, evidenced by their acquisition of […]
DISCLOSURE: DEA using ‘terrorism’ surveillance to entrap Americans
Source (NaturalNews) Tens of millions of Americans were outraged recently after news broke that the National Security Agency, under provisions of the Patriot Act, has been tracking their private electronic communications, all in the name of combating terrorism. Now comes news that the Drug Enforcement Agency, which is charged with enforcing the nation’s drug laws, has […]
DISCLOSURE: NSA now admits spying on 75% of U.S. Internet traffic: Emails, texts, voice calls
Source (NaturalNews) When news first broke that the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans, I suspected then that, in truth, the spying would amount to much more than we were initially told. Sometimes it isn’t good to be right. The NSA has now admitted that the agency was spying on three-quarters of all […]
US requested data on Facebook users
Source Facebook revealed on Tuesday that the US government has asked the social network to disclose information on at least 20,000 of its users. In its first “transparency report”, the company said it received between 11,000 and 12,000 requests from the US government for data, covering between 20,000 and 21,000 users. Facebook said it received “both […]
LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA
Source “A Special Surveillance Chip” According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It allows Microsoft to control the computer remotely through a […]
How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
Source by Clive Thompson Sick of government spying, corporate monitoring, and overpriced ISPs? There’s a cure for that. JOSEPH BONICIOLI mostly uses the same internet you and I do. He pays a service provider a monthly fee to get him online. But to talk to his friends and neighbors in Athens, Greece, he’s also got […]
Info Wars: Obama’s Response To NSA Was To Appease The Public, Not Reduce The Spying
Source Mike MasnickTech DirtAugust 11, 2013 We’ve spent much of the afternoon detailing some of President Obama’s statements concerning his response to the NSA surveillance revelations, combined with some of the documents released by the administration. But a key point in all of this is highlighted in the Associated Press’s coverage of the press conference: […]
Before its News: NSA Charging You to Spy on You
Source Thank you to friend from Facebook for brining this to my attention. I knew the NSA was spying on us but now they want to charge for it!! lol – Justin NSA Charging You to Spy on You Imagine the agroance of seeing a $0.23 charge on your phone bill and discovering that it’s […]
Occupy Corporatism: Federal Court Rules: Your Cell Phone is a Gov Tracking Device
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that since customers give up private information to their cell phone companies, which are a 3rd party, this data is public knowledge and not protected under privacy laws. This decision is based on the third-party doctrine that is a “legal concept established by a set of court decisions over decades that […]