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01/03/2017 / By Don Wrightman

CLOSE CALL: European Union finally rejects horrific mass surveillance legislation

The British government’s mass surveillance powers have been severely undermined by The European Union’s top court. The new ruling could constrain police and spy agency investigations. The judgement was handed down last month, in Luxembourg, where the European Court of Justice declared that general and indiscriminate data retention regarding people’s communications and whereabouts is inconsistent […]

12/22/2016 / By Don Wrightman

Three years ago, Obama signed a law allowing the federal government to take over the entire media

There’s an insidious law for us to ponder, courtesy of Barack Obama. An online radio host pointed out back in 2013 that the law would grant the federal government huge power to saturate Americans with domestic propaganda at the taxpayer’s expense. “This law allows the federal government to have sweeping power to push television, radio, newspaper […]

12/12/2016 / By Don Wrightman

New cyber-intelligence leaks reveal US government targeting journalists

Wikileaks has published thousands of leaked emails from a US cyber-security contractor. Whistle-blowing journalist Barrett Brown was released from federal prison as a result, but the emails discussed targeted journalists and governments. In February of 2011, emails belonging to HBGary Federal were obtained by hacking collective Anonymous. Wikileaks has now published those emails in a […]

12/09/2016 / By Don Wrightman

New law allows government access to hack individual’s computers and phones

A vital Supreme Court order was set to go into effect on Thursday December 1st, which dramatically expands the surveillance power of federal agents. It’s an alteration to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which softens the legal requirements necessary to obtain a search and seizure warrant. This grants the government remote […]

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