Unconstitutional Senate Intelligence Authorization Act (tags)
police state
US Senate Lets Three Patriot Act Provisions Expire (tags)
police state
America Greatest Threat to World Peace (tags)
America
FBI Documents Suggest Feds Read Emails Without a Warrant (tags)
New documents from the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ offices paint a troubling picture of the government’s email surveillance practices. Not only does the FBI claim it can read emails and other electronic communications without a warrant—even after a federal appeals court ruled that doing so violates the Fourth Amendment—but the documents strongly suggest that different U.S. Attorneys’ offices around the country are applying conflicting standards to access communications content (you can see the documents here - http://www.aclu.org/national-security/warrantless-electronic-communications-foia-requests ).
Intensified Warrantless Spying in America (tags)
police state
Uncle Sam wants to know what you googled for today!!! (tags)
"U.S. government agencies sent Google 5,950 criminal investigation requests during the first half of 2011 compared with 4,601 requests during the last six months of 2010. Google complied in part or completely with 93% of those requests"
Internet Censorship Bill Introduced (tags)
censorship
Reviewing Project Censored's Top 2009-10 Stories (tags)
PC's top censored stories
The Struggle for Net Neutrality (tags)
struggle for a free and open Internet
Internet Threatened by Censorship, Secret Surveillance, and Cybersecurity Laws (tags)
Internet and personal freedoms threatened
EFF believes the warrantless surveillance violates the Fourth Amendment, FISA, the Wiretap Act, and most likely the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.