"The Electronic Frontier Foundation's
goal is 'defending your rights in the digital world', and its
activities span the full gamut of freedom fighting: providing help with
court cases; issuing white papers that explain current threats; running
campaigns to spread awareness of various issues; and developing
technologies that make our online activities safer from prying eyes.
Here's a short history of how the EFF came together, what it has done so
far, and how it's preparing for upcoming battles."
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"The Washington Post is reporting the existence of 'Team Telecom',
lawyers from the FBI and the departments of Defense, Justice and
Homeland Security, who ensure that Global Crossing and other
foreign-owned telecoms, quickly and confidentially fulfill the USA's surveillance requests.
Team Telecom leverages the authority of the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) to approve cable licenses. The security agreement for
Global Crossing, whose fiber-optic network connected 27 nations and four
continents, required the company to have a 'Network Operations Center'
on U.S. soil that could be visited by government officials with 30
minutes of warning. Surveillance requests, meanwhile, had to be handled
by U.S. citizens screened by the government and sworn to secrecy — in
many cases prohibiting information from being shared even with the
company's executives and directors. A spokesman for Level 3
Communications declined to comment for the Washington Post's article."
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In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court
has created a secret body of law giving the NSA the power to amass vast
collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism
suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation,
espionage and cyberattacks.
Privacy
group Electronic Privacy Information Center to file an emergency
petition with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to stop the National
Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program that collects the
telephone records of millions of Americans.
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia have offered NSA leaker Edward Snowden
asylum, but before he makes any other life-changing decisions, he should
talk to a lawyer
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