The Guardian reports that recently released documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal the previously unknown extent of the Pentagon’s wide-area surveillance capabilities. South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois have been playing unknown host to 25 solar-powered balloons as part of a test through U.S. Southern Command since mid-July and the tests...
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Was Snowden Right? Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down
In June 2013, NSA network administrator Edward Snowden gave Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian internal documentation of a surveillance system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts in the search for suspected terrorists. Now, a senior Capitol Hill Republican staffer says NSA has discontinued the program and the Trump administration might not ask...
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Eyes in the Sky: A Conference on Aerial Surveillance
The Project on Government Oversight, otherwise known as POGO, is a Washington pubic interest group, on the cutting edge of accountability. POGO is calling attention to the growth of aerial surveillance in America with a conference on March 7. This is not the NSA-CIA version of spying–mass surveillance and espionage–but a more ordinary task carried...
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Reuters: Ex-NSA Cyberspies Reveal How They Hacked Foes of UAE
This is a story about how intelligence agencies deploy private contractors for surveillance and repression. It’s about the globalization of intelligence. Exhibit A: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which detained an innocent British graduate student as a spy and conferred with the chief of Israel’s Mossad. The UAE is an ally of the United States,...
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Who Is Spying on Citizen Lab, the Cybersecurity Watchdog?
Citizen Lab, based out of the Munk School at the University of Toronto, has for years played a leading role in exposing state-backed hackers operating in places as far afield as Tibet , Ethiopia and Syria . Lately, CItizen has drawn attention for its repeated exposés of an Israeli surveillance software vendor called the NSO Group, a firm whose wares have...