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Des règles top secrètes autorisaient la NSA à utiliser des données sans mandat - 21 juin 2013
Selon The Guardian, des juges ont autorisé la NSA à utiliser les informations collectées auprès des foyers américains, et ce sans mandat, ont révélé des documents top secrets présentés au tribunal qui supervise la surveillance par les agences de renseignement (...)
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Facebook, Microsoft release number of data requests from government - 17 juin 2013
Facebook and Microsoft for the first time on Friday said they had gotten data requests from the government under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but they added that the U.S. government did not permit them to provide specific figures.
Instead, the government allowed the companies to release only broad (...)
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Apple received more than 4,000 government requests for customer data over six months - 17 juin 2013
Apple has released information on how many data requests it receives from U.S. law enforcement, as it joins Facebook, Microsoft and others in pushing for looser restrictions on what tech companies can share with their customers.
The effort comes in the wake of reports that the National Security Administration has (...)
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U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms - 17 juin 2013
Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.
These programs, whose participants are (...)
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Facebook et Microsoft obligés de garder le silence quant aux demandes de la sécurité nationale US - 17 juin 2013
Facebook et Microsoft auraient répondu à des milliers de demandes relevant du Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), mais les deux entreprises ne sont toujours pas autorisées à communiquer sur le sujet.
Avant le week-end, Facebook et Microsoft ont reconnu qu’au cours du second semestre 2012, elles avaient (...)
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L’ère des mercenaires numériques - 16 juin 2013
"Mon ordinateur avait été arrêté avant moi" . C’est le constat lucide d’un activiste syrien arrêté et torturé par le régime de Bachar al-Assad. Pris dans les filets de la surveillance en ligne, Karim Taymour explique à un journaliste de Bloomberg [1] s’être vu présenter lors de son interrogatoire une pile de plus de 1000 (...)
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Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program - 8 juin 2013
When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world’s largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit.
Twitter declined to make it easier for the government. But (...)
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NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program - 7 juin 2013
Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by (...)
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NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily - 6 juin 2013
Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued (...)
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Verizon livre les relevés de ses abonnés aux renseignements américains - 6 juin 2013
Un nouveau scandale menace la Maison Blanche. Le quotidien britannique The Guardian révèle dans son édition du 6 juin que l’opérateur téléphonique américain Verizon remet quotidiennement à la National Security Agency (NSA), l’une des principales agences de renseignements des Etats-Unis, les relevés de dizaines de millions (...)
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NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily - 6 juin 2013
Exclusive : Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court (...)
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Rapport spécial sur la surveillance, avec un focus sur 5 pays et 5 entreprises "Ennemis d’Internet" - 12 mars 2013
A l’occasion du 12 Mars, Journée mondiale contre la cyber-censure, Reporters sans frontières publie un Rapport spécial sur la surveillance, disponible sur surveillance.rsf.org. Grâce aux technologies d’intrusion informatique et d’interception de communications, les Etats procèdent à un nombre grandissant d’arrestations de (...)
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Hey Google, Can We Have Data About FISA Court Orders Too ? - 10 mars 2013
Google took an unprecedented and fantastic step towards greater transparency earlier this week by releasing data about National Security Letters that it receives, but there is another class of government orders for user data that we are still totally in the dark about : Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (...)
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British internet users’ personal information on major ’cloud’ storage services can be spied upon routinely by US authorities - 30 janvier 2013
All personal information stored by British internet users on major "cloud" computing services including Google Drive can be spied upon routinely without their knowledge by US authorities under newly-approved legislation, it can be disclosed.
Cloud computing has exploded in recent years as a flexible, cheap way (...)
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Expiring Warrantless Spy Bill to Be Reauthorized by Year’s End - 13 décembre 2012
U.S. spies can rest easy knowing that the nation’s warrantless wiretapping program "” secretly employed by the President George W. Bush administration in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks "” won’t expire at year’s end.
That’s because Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) said Wednesday he would lift his procedural hold that bars (...)
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All Three Branches Agree : Big Brother Is the New Normal - 1er novembre 2012
Despite Hurricane Sandy, the Supreme Court on Monday entertained oral arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.
The hearing marked the first time the Supreme (...)
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Les Etats-Unis votent l’extension de FISA, la loi sur la cybersurveillance - 14 septembre 2012
La chambre des représentants américaine a voté le mercredi 12 septembre l’extension jusqu’à 2017 de la loi FISA. Celle-ci, très controversée, fait craindre un risque d’écoute à grande échelle des citoyens américains. Cybersurveillance :
Mercredi 12 septembre, la Chambre des représentants américaine a voté par 301 votes (...)
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Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Own NSA Wiretapping ? - 21 août 2012
As Congress prepares to reauthorize the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 - which effectively legalized the notorious warrantless wiretap program launched by President Bush "” much about the law remains shrouded in secrecy : The National Security Agency has refused to give legislators even a rough estimate (...)
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Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program, Sues NSA - 2 août 2012
A former congressional staffer and NSA whistleblower who the authorities suspected of exposing the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program is suing the government, saying her constitutional rights are being violated because her computer seized five years ago has never been returned, and the (...)
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Court Wary of Overturning Warrantless Spy Case Victory, But Might Have To - 2 juin 2012
A federal appeals court appeared troubled Friday by the Obama administration’s arguments that the government could break domestic spying laws without fear of being sued "” and that the government’s argument might be correct, due to an oversight by Congress.
A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (...)
