U.S. Treasury Vulnerable to Hack?
The Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network is used by the United States in a number of ways. It can keep track of the effect of sanctions on countries like Russia …
Category: Privacy & Spying
The NSA is Turning Kids Into Spies
When summer comes along you'd probably want your kid to be occupied. If they're a teenager, you might get them a job or maybe send them to a summer …
Federal Bill Gives Police Unlimited Access to Citizens’ Private Communications
Late last year Congress passed the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2015. This gives the executive branch the power to spy on American citizens' private communications, but it also provides the …
Feds to Require that Cars “Broadcast Speed and Location Data”, But They Promise Not to Use it Against You
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is stepping up efforts to require vehicle-to-vehicle communications under their proposed “connected car” rule by the end of 2015. Just like about everything …
Oregon Launches Pay-Per-Mile Tax Program
Oregon has launched the nation's first mileage tax program - instead of paying a tax at the pump, the program charges drivers $.015 per mile that they drive. The …
Secret Court Rules NSA Can Continue Collecting American’s Phone Data
Despite a federal court ruling that the NSA's spying program was illegal and issuing an injunction that the surveillance of Americans stop immediately, the NSA will continue its unconstitutional …
FISA Court to NSA: Resume Monitoring U.S. Citizens’ Phones
Remember when Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency's bulk data collection of American phone records? And remember earlier this year when a wave of public outrage finally forced the …
Britain Pulls its Spies, U.S. On High Alert After Russia and China Unlock 1 Million Snowden Files
MI6 has begun withdrawing its spies of out of no-so-friendly countries and US intel agencies are on high alert after Russia and China cracked of over 1 million encrypted …
Local Police a Growing Part of the “Surveillance State”
Americans have voiced growing concerns about warrant-less domestic surveillance and data-snooping by federal agencies including the National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Analysis Center …
Obama Tells Secret Court To Ignore Federal Court, Law He Signed Just 4 Hours Earlier
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, or FISA court, is a secret panel of federal judges that presides over surveillance initiatives and programs by the federal government. The court issues …
