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Second Hassan Staffer Allegedly Helped Aide Steal Massive Amounts of Senate Data…

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A second former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan is implicated in former IT staffer Jackson Cosko’s massive data-theft scheme that was ultimately used to “intimidate” Republican senators by “doxxing” them during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, prosecutors said. Samantha G. DeForest-Davis, at the time a staff assistant to Hassan, was the […]

I Spy: How Android Phones Keep Tabs on Our Every Move…

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As a consumer, you buy a new Android cellphone. It could be any brand, but it is likely to be an Android as they account for more than 80% of today’s cellphone market. You open the box, press the “On” button and the phone connects to the internet. Without further ado, you have just triggered […]

DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says…

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The Drug Enforcement Administration skirted numerous legal checks on a trio of bulk data collection programs dating back to the early 1990s, according to an internal watchdog. In a heavily redacted, 144-page report published Thursday, the Justice Department Inspector General revealed the administration failed to fully assess the legal basis for three massive international surveillance […]

Chinese Telecoms Giant Huawei Was Under U.S. Surveillance…

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US prosecutors used a special warrant to secretly gather information about Huawei Technologies Co Limited for evidence of fraud and espionage charges against China’s largest telecoms equipment maker, a US court was told on Thursday. Assistant US Attorney Alex Solomon said at the hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, that the evidence, obtained […]

Privacy-Minded Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Stop NSA from Collecting Your Phone Records…

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Four lawmakers with a strong record of opposing secret domestic surveillance are teaming up to try to kill the federal government’s authority to collect our phone records. Reps. Justin Amash (R–Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D–Calif.), joined by Sens. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) and Ron Wyden (D–Ore.), have introduced the Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records […]

Judge Faults Feds for ‘Kafkaesque’ Stance in Journalist’s Surveillance Suit…

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A federal appeals court has turned down a veteran TV reporter’s bid to revive her lawsuit alleging her computers and phones were illegally hacked by the U.S. government, but one judge on the panel parted with his colleagues and denounced government lawyers for their “Kafakaesque” stance in the case. Sharyl Attkisson, an Emmy-award winning former […]

SHOT: James Clapper – ‘I Didn’t Lie’ to Congress About NSA Surveillance, I ‘Simply Didn’t Understand’ the Question…

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Former National Security Agency Director James Clapper said he did not lie about mass domestic surveillance programs when he testified to Congress in 2013, but rather he made a mistake and did not understand what specific program was being asked about. CNN’s John Berman asked for Clapper’s reaction to The Intercept’s Glen Greenwald report: “The very first NSA program we revealed […]

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