Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In an effort to measure how long it takes travelers to get through security, the Dublin, Ireland airport has been tracking mobile phone data. The airport has installed sensors into the ceiling above the security areas that allow the authority to track…
Lawyer charges feds admit spying on everyone
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Obama administration’s insistence on further delaying a court ruling against the National Security Agency’s telephone surveillance program indicates the government actually was spying on “everyone,” charges a brief by the plaintiffs. The administration is arguing that immediate compliance with an…
Judge Blocks NSA Spying and Sets an Important Precedent
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A FEDERAL JUDGE has ordered an immediate halt to the NSA’s controversial phone records collection program, ruling that the program violates the Constitution. US District Judge Richard Leon’s decision to end the collection is a victory for the plaintiffs in the…
US senator: The new NSA spying program is so clumsy the NSA won’t bother using it
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A new, more limited system for monitoring Americans’ phone calls for signs of terrorist intent is so slow and cumbersome that the U.S. National Security Agency will likely never use it, a senior Senate Republican said. Richard Burr, chairman of the…
Photo: Yves Logghe/AP Europe, Still Angry at U.S. Spying, Prepares to Increase Its Own
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Just as the United States is taking a first step toward placating European privacy concerns about U.S. surveillance, several European countries are passing laws dramatically expanding their own spy programs. The House last month passed the Judicial Redress Act, intended to…
NSA spying: judge tosses out case because Wikipedia isn’t widely read enough
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Wikipedia’s parent org — has had its case against the NSA dismissed by a Federal judge who said that the mere fact that the site is one of the most popular destinations on the net was not a basis for assuming…
‘Canadian intelligence warned me twice of people spying on me’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Egypt has always had great credit in the development of science and technology. From time to another, a generation of scientists emerges in Egypt to change the world future. Daily News Egypt conducted an interview with Egyptian-Canadian scientist Hatem Zaghloul, who…
EDWARD SNOWDEN: NSA SPYING ON PORN HABITS, NOT TERRORISTS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Snowden, who was speaking from Russia, where he has been seeking asylum since 2013, continued his tirade against the United States government’s surveillance program in front of a standing-room-only crowd of his loyal devotees. Among the topics he addressed, Snowden suggested…
EU Digital Commish: Ja, we should have done more about NSA spying
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Europe’s outspoken digi Commissioner, Günther H-dot Oettinger has admitted that the European Commission did too little, too late in reaction to Edward Snowden’s NSA spying revelations. Following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) striking down the EU-US…
The NSA and EFF Agree on One Thing: How the NSA’s Internet Spying Works
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Much has changed in the nearly ten years since we launched our first lawsuit challenging the NSA’s illegal surveillance of millions of Americans’ Internet communications. Over time, the defendants in the cases have changed; the legal “authority” the government has invoked…