SAN FRANCISCO — The National Security Agencys telephone-metadata collection program has been completely useless at preventing terrorist attacks, a prominent former government official said yesterday (Feb. 25). Speaking on a panel at the RSA security conference here, former White House national-security official Richard Clarke refuted the governments claim that 55 possible terrorist incidents had been […]
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden released more documents that reveal remote spying operations that include bulk data collection and user tracking, this time concerning the Canadian public, CBC News reports. According to a presentation dating back to May 2012, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) has used an airport’s free Wi-Fi system over a period […]
A federal government panel charged with oversight of the NSA’s surveillance policies says its massive phone-data collection program is probably illegal, in another blow to the Obama administration.
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