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Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Other Tech Giants Active Participation with NSA Spying Confirmed while Activists Launch Anti-Spying Counter Initiative

Conspiracy Watch - 2014-07-09 - Original post - Cached copy

NSA attorney Rajesh De says Facebook, Google and Yahoo were not only aware of the NSA’s surveillance program, but that they also in fact provided ‘full assistance’ in the collection of data. Rajesh De, in a hearing of the U.S. government’s institutional privacy watchdog, confirmed my suspicion that every one of the communication industry’s tech giants such as Facebook, Google, Apple and…

IRS Claims Two Years Of Emails Were Destroyed In A ‘Computer Crash;’ Congressman Asks The NSA To Supply ‘Missing’ Email Metadata

Aletho News - 2014-06-16 - Original post - Cached copy

By Tim Cushing | Techdirt | June 16, 2014 The IRS is currently being investigated by Congress for some possibly politically-motivated “attention” it directed towards “Tea Party” and other conservative groups that operated as tax-exempt entities. Along the way, IRS official Lois Lerner, who was the first to publicly disclose the inappropriate targeting, was also […]

NSA Collecting Our Faces from Web Pics for Facial Recognition Programs

Conspiracy Watch - 2014-06-09 - Original post - Cached copy

The N.S.A. is Collecting Millions of Faces from Facebook and other Social Media Images The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to…Read more →

Thought better of it: NSA can get rid of evidence, judge says

Aletho News - 2014-06-07 - Original post - Cached copy
RT | June 7, 2014

A federal judge who ordered the National Security Agency to retain all records of its secret telephone surveillance related to an ongoing case has reversed the order – just a day after it was issued.
“In order to protect national security programs, I cannot issue a ruling at this time. The Court rescinds the June 5 order,” US District Judge Jeffrey White said from the bench on Friday.

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