Corporate Surveillance

Three people, all of whom were in contact with [Khashoggi] suffered from hacking attempts by what appeared to be Saudi intelligence

Are You Ready for the Trump Admin. to Know Everything about You?

Tomdispatch

By Judith Coburn | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we know we are surveilled 24/7 by the National Security Agency, the FBI, local police, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, hackers, the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, data brokers, private spyware groups like Black Cube, and companies from which we’ve ordered swag on the Internet, is there […]

Corporate Surveillance

Rice Vindicated: She did Unmask Trump, Bannon– but they were meeting UAE

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The United Arab Emirates crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan slipped into the United States on December 15 for a secret meeting with Trump, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon. It is unusual for high government officials to visit without letting the White House […]

Corporate Surveillance

Congress kills Privacy, Lets Corporations Sell your Browser History

contributors

By Ernesto Falcon | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Putting the interests of Internet providers over Internet users, Congress today voted to erase landmark broadband privacy protections. If the bill is signed into law, companies like Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon will have free rein to hijack your searches, sell your data, […]

Corporate Surveillance

Can you stop House from selling out your online Privacy, as Senate Just Did?

contributors

By Ernesto Falcon | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Majority Leader McCarthy Confirms House to Immediately Act on Behalf of the Cable and Telephone Industry Following the Senate Vote Last week, the U.S. Senate by a razor thin margin of 50 to 48 voted to take away the privacy rights of Internet users as […]

Corporate Surveillance

AT&T Profits by Spying on You for Gov’t, Killing 4th Amendment

contributors

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – If companies are allowed to operate in this manner without repercussions, our democracy has no future.’ Telecommunications giant AT&T is spying on Americans for profit and helped law enforcement agencies investigate everything from the so-called war on drugs to Medicaid fraud—all at taxpayers’ expense, according […]

Corporate Surveillance

Yahoo helped in unconstitutional US Gov. mass Surveillance of Americans’ Email

contributors

By Andrew Crocker and Mark Rumold | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users’ incoming emails, in real time. There’s still much that we don’t know at this […]

Corporate Surveillance

Citing NSA Spying, Euro Court of Justice Forbids Auto-Sharing of Personal Info

contributors

Danny O’Brien | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The spread of knowledge about the NSA’s surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law. It should come as […]

Bill of Rights

New Proof: AT&T and NSA’s Long Surveillance Partnership shredded 4th Amendment

contributors

By Mark Rumold | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF’s Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008—that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastructure, resulting in unconstitutional seizure and search of of millions, if not hundreds […]