Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling

[InRareForm]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order

[ElNono]

More coverage here:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-verizon-call-records

disgusting, tbh... and this is an instance where you absolutely know it's done in secret and with a gag order because there's no way they get away with this in the open.

[velik_m]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans

[exstatic]

Thank you foreign press. The US media is too busy banging the drums SUPPORTING this shit, and yet lamenting when it happens to them (AP "scandal").

[boutons_deux]

this has no doubt been going on since 9/11, yawn. The national security/police state runs independently of politics, and is unstoppable.

[TeyshaBlue]

*HE did it first!*/ 8th grade.

[TeyshaBlue]

The database must be staggering.

[TeyshaBlue]

Thank you foreign press. The US media is too busy banging the drums SUPPORTING this shit, and yet lamenting when it happens to them (AP "scandal").

This.

[coyotes_geek]

As long as the administration plays for my team and they're just spying on the other team, I don't see what the big deal is here.

[boutons_deux]

How the Chinese Exploited the Shady Relationship Between US Spymasters and GoogleThe Chinese are taking advantage of a gray zone in Silicon Valley between technology companies and the secret arms of the government and military.

In 2009, China hacked (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml) into Google to see which of its spies were known to the FBI by tracing secret FBI data requests. Two years later, China hacked (http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/china-hacked-rsa-us-official-says/232700515) into RSA, a company hired by defense contractors to encrypt their computers and stole detailed plans (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/world/asia/us-and-china-to-hold-talks-on-hacking.html?_r=0) for major U.S. weapons systems including new fighter planes, worth trillions, and critical domestic infrastructure including gas pipelines.

“There’s an extraordinary amount of meta data associated with each of those images that you don’t think about, because you think I’m just taking a picture of my friends in a bar,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has criticized (http://epic.org/privacy/google/glass/default.html) Glass for possible creepy uses, from stalkers following women to cops identifying protesters. “That’s why the government is so interested in it. They want access to that data.”

But EPIC (http://epic.org/) has gone further than any other public-interest group in tracing Google’s relationship to the National Security Agency, the nation's largest spy agancy. It sued under the federal Freedom of Information Act to obtain copies of security cooperation agreements (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057.html) that Google made with the NSA after the Chinse hack of FBI records. That lawsuit was shut down (http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/2772CC6C7E277C1C852579FB004DB101/$file/11-5233-1373260.pdf) by a federal judge last year

"Think about this," the Stanford professor said. "In 2001, if you had the entire Internet data stream, from the master piering points, you had all the data. Now, if you add Google’s queries and Google’s data stream, you have all the data—regardless of device. I would first ask the question of what is the interconnection, and is there one, between Google and NSA?”

That is what EPIC’s lawsuit (http://epic.org/) against the NSA tried to find out. After the Chinese hack of the FBI searches, Google allowed the NSA to access its data under secret agreements. The former NSA director, Michael McConnell, wrote (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022502493_pf.html) in the Washington Post in February 2010 that a collaboration between NSA and Google was “inevitable.” Another Post report (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057.html) said the NSA-Google collaboration would “allow the two organizations to share critical information.”


http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/google-glass-chinese-spies?paging=off

[SA210]

Hope/Change/Transparency/Anti-Bush candidate


:lmao

[boutons_deux]

will DoJ/NSA go after Greenwald?

[Winehole23]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/05/daniel-ellsberg-im-sure-that-president-obama-would-have-sought-a-life-sentence-in-my-case/

[boutons_deux]

A LETTER TO VERIZON CUSTOMERS


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/boro-obama-official_opt.jpg

WASHINGTON —Today, President Obama issued the following letter to all Verizon customers:

Dear Verizon Customers,

Yesterday it came to light that the National Security Agency has been collecting millions of phone records from you each and every day. Since that news was released, many of you have called the White House with questions and concerns about this new program. To save my time and yours, here are answers to three of the F.A.Q.s (Frequently Asked Questions) we’ve been hearing from you:

1. Will I be charged extra for this service?

I’m happy to say that the answer is no. While the harvesting and surveillance of your domestic phone calls were not a part of your original Verizon service contract, the National Security Agency is providing this service entirely free of charge.

2. If I add a phone to my account, will those calls also be monitored?

Once again, the answer is good news. If you want to add a child or any other family member to your Verizon account, their phone calls—whom they called, when, and the duration of the call—will all be monitored by the United States government, at no additional cost.

3. Can the National Security Agency help me understand my Verizon bill?

Unfortunately, no. The National Security Agency has tried, but failed, to understand Verizon’s bills. Pease call Verizon customer service and follow the series of electronic prompts.


I hope I’ve helped clear up some of the confusion about this exciting new program. But if you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to call the White House. Joe Biden is standing by.

God bless America,

President Obama

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/06/a-letter-to-verizon-customers.html?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(134)

[coyotes_geek]

^:lol

That's pretty good.

[SA210]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/600934_10152868985750471_2045745548_n.jpg

[sjacquemotte]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/6/6/1370553948414/Prism-001.jpg

[Winehole23]

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/07/in-response-to-prism-anonymous-leaks-classified-dod-documents/

[Winehole23]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html

[Winehole23]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&

[Winehole23]

http://lifehacker.com/what-the-nsa-spying-scandal-means-to-you-511808090

[boutons_deux]

Before Internet, cellphone, social media sniffing, there was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON