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The NSA Is Tracking People&#39;s Porn Habits
 The NSA Is Tracking 
 People's Porn Habits 
Snowden Leak
Nov 27, 2013 7:59 AM CST

The NSA Is Tracking People's Porn Habits

In the hopes of discrediting terrorist recruiters

(Newser) - Forget email and phone data, the NSA is officially spying on something people really want to keep private: their porn history. The spy agency has proposed discrediting radical Islamists who might be attempting to radicalize others by publicly airing any dirty laundry that might make them look like hypocrites, including...

Microsoft Moves to Foil NSA Snoops

Company suspects it was surveillance target

(Newser) - Microsoft, its suspicions raised by reports of the NSA spying on rivals Google and Yahoo —and seemingly everybody else—plans to beef up its defenses, sources tell the Washington Post . The company is working on new ways to encrypt its Internet traffic after documents released by Edward Snowden suggested...

NSA Chief Offered to Quit, Obama Said No: Report

Agency struggles to get back on its feet after revelations

(Newser) - With the NSA reeling from Edward Snowden's leaks, its leader offered to step down—but the White House quickly put the kibosh on that idea, an administration source tells the Wall Street Journal . Gen. Keith Alexander's offer followed Snowden's entrance into the spotlight in June, notes the...

UK Let NSA &#39;Unmask&#39; Its Citizens

 UK Let NSA 
 'Unmask' Its 
 Citizens 
New Snowden Leak
Nov 20, 2013 3:43 PM CST

UK Let NSA 'Unmask' Its Citizens

Latest Snowden leak reveals US had access to Brits' personal data

(Newser) - The NSA has been collecting phone, internet, and email records on UK citizens who are not suspected of any wrongdoing, and storing them in databases that the rest of America's intelligence and military services can access—and British intelligence officials signed off on all of it, a newly leaked...

NSA Copped to Breaking Spy Rules— Over and Over

Kept promising it would do better and didn't, per declassified docs

(Newser) - More than 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents reveal that, time and time again, the National Security Agency acknowledged it had violated US surveillance rules and promised it would do better, only to have the cycle repeat itself. Among the excuses the NSA gave to a US intelligence court...

Yahoo to Encrypt All Products Amid NSA Spying

Marissa Mayer: We don't take users' trust 'for granted'

(Newser) - Yahoo is taking further steps to prevent NSA snooping: The company will encrypt all its products, and soon. In a blog post yesterday, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that by the end of Q1 next year, users will be able to have all data going to and from Yahoo encrypted if...

CIA Spying on Overseas Money Transfers: Reports

Other methods of "bulk collection" likely still unknown

(Newser) - Think your international money transfer is free from prying eyes? Not so, according to the New York Times , which reports the CIA is secretly collecting info from companies like Western Union under the Patriot Act—the same law the NSA cites when nabbing phone records. It's possible the names...

NSA Workers Handed Passwords to Snowden

He fooled them into helping him access classified info

(Newser) - Up to 25 workers at a spy base in Hawaii now regret turning over their login details to a computer systems administrator: Edward Snowden. The whistleblower was able to access much of the classified material he leaked to the media by using passwords he obtained by telling colleagues he needed...

AT&T Making Millions by Handing Data to CIA

And the CIA makes more requests than the NSA

(Newser) - Government surveillance is paying off for AT&T. The company has been sharing its trove of call records with the CIA, and it didn't exactly need to be strong-armed with a court order to do it. Instead, the company has a voluntary contract worth more than $10 million, the...

Gore Blasts NSA's 'Crimes Against the Constitution'

He predicts NSA will be forced to rein in 'absurd' surveillance practices

(Newser) - Al Gore is definitely not among those buying the line that US surveillance practices are above-board and business as usual. Among the words he used to describe the methods unveiled by Edward Snowden in a speech last night in Canada: "absurd," "outrageous," "crimes against the...

Brazil: OK, We Spied on US, Too

Eyed rooms rented by US embassy in Brasília

(Newser) - In September, Brazil's president decided to skip a planned visit to the US following reports of NSA spying; now Dilma Rousseff's country is admitting it's done some spying of its own—though within its own borders and not on the scale of the NSA. A report in...

Google's Schmidt: NSA Spying 'Outrageous'

Agency head refutes reports

(Newser) - Google's executive chairman is weighing in on reports that the NSA hacked reams of data from his company and Yahoo: "It's really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that's true," Eric Schmidt tells the Wall Street Journal...

NSA's Aim: To 'Utterly Master' Intelligence

NY Times offers in-depth look at 'omniscient' agency's operations

(Newser) - A lengthy report in the New York Times , based on thousands of documents shared by the Guardian via Edward Snowden, offers an in-depth look at an agency that can "seem omniscient," with eyes everywhere tracking even the smallest matters. The material obtained—whether years of stored text messages,...

Kerry: Some Spying Went 'Too Far'

Some practices to end after Obama's 'thorough' review

(Newser) - The Guardian is calling it "the most stark comments yet by a senior administration official." John Kerry yesterday addressed US surveillance, and here are two stand-out quotes:
  • "The president and I have learned of some things that have been happening in many ways on an automatic pilot,
...

NSA Spied on Vatican as Pope Was Chosen: Report

Church 'not worried' about Italian magazine piece

(Newser) - Among the NSA's apparently unending surveillance targets, according to an Italian magazine report, was one Jorge Mario Bergoglio—the current Pope Francis. Panorama says Bergoglio and other cardinals were subjects of US spying ahead of the conclave that made him pope , AFP notes. "It is feared that the...

NSA Has Hacked Google, Yahoo: Report

Snowden scoop: 'MUSCULAR' program allows access of all data, without court order

(Newser) - If you thought PRISM was bad, wait until you get a load of MUSCULAR. Documents from Edward Snowden reveal that the NSA has hacked the cables Google and Yahoo use to shuttle information between their massive cloud databases, giving them unfettered access to data from hundreds of millions of users,...

Clapper: Spying on Leaders a 'Basic Tenet' of What We Do

The other side is doing it too, he tells lawmakers

(Newser) - Don't expect National Intelligence Director James Clapper to apologize to the world leaders the US has been spying on anytime soon. That's just how the spy game is played, he told the House intelligence committee yesterday. "Leadership intentions, in whatever form that’s expressed, is kind of...

NSA: We Didn't Spy on Europeans; Europe Did

Alexander refutes recent reports about US snooping overseas

(Newser) - Residents of Spain, France and elsewhere in Europe are outraged over reports that the NSA spied on millions of phone calls there. Turns out, it wasn't the NSA that collected all that phone information—it was the Europeans' own governments, reports the Los Angeles Times . The recent news reports,...

Is Obama Truly in Dark on Secrets of White House?

On issue after issue, he's said to be 'in the dark': Dana Milbank

(Newser) - For a guy who's allegedly in charge of the executive branch, President Obama sure seems unaware of a lot of key issues, writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post . There's the NSA spying on world leaders, which, according to the Wall Street Journal, Obama found out about this...

US Will Stop Spying on Its Allies: Lawmaker

 Obama May 
 Quit Spying 
 on Allies 
UPDATED
Oct 29, 2013 7:30 AM CDT

Obama May Quit Spying on Allies

Dianne Feinstein's remark signals major policy shift

(Newser) - With European countries fuming over NSA surveillance, the White House is reconsidering its spying activities. Yesterday, Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she was calling for a "total review of all intelligence programs," and that the White House had assured her that "collection on...

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