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Here's Everything Microsoft Is Letting the Government See

Philip Bump and Rebecca Greenfield | The Atlantic Wire | July 11, 2013

For the first time, The Guardian is detailing how a tech company works with the National Security Agency to share user information under the NSA's PRISM program. Unfortunately, that tech company happens to be Microsoft, the one that makes the operating system used on 92 percent of computers in the world. Read More »

How Microsoft Handed The NSA Access To Encrypted Messages

Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, et. al. | The Guardian | July 11, 2013

Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents [...]. Read More »

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers Of N.S.A.

Eric Lichtblau | New York Times | July 6, 2013

In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks [...]. Read More »

Lavabit Files Opening Brief In Landmark Privacy Case

Kevin Poulson | Wired | October 10, 2013

Secure email provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site. Read More »

Lawmakers Re-Introduce GPS Protection Bill Against Government Spying

Cyrus Farivar | Ars Technica | March 21, 2013

Just two days after new legislative reform on e-mail privacy was re-introduced in Congress, another privacy bill was brought back from years past. Read More »

Megaupload And The Government's Attack On Cloud Computing

Cindy Cohn and Julie Samuels | Electronic Frontier Foundation | October 31, 2012

Yesterday, EFF, on behalf of its client Kyle Goodwin, filed a brief proposing a process for the Court in the Megaupload case to hold the government accountable for the actions it took (and failed to take) when it shut down Megaupload's service and denied third parties like Mr. Goodwin access to their property. [...] Read More »

The Secret Sharer

Jane Mayer | The New Yorker | May 23, 2013

On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. A former senior executive at the National Security Agency, the government’s electronic-espionage service, he is accused, in essence, of being an enemy of the state... Read More »

The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA To Use US Data Without A Warrant

Glenn Greenwald and James Ball | The Guardian | June 20, 2013

Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication Read More »

We're Close To Strengthening The Privacy Of Your Cell Phone's Location (But Only In California)

Robinson Meyer | The Atlantic | August 24, 2012

On Wednesday, an American legislature took the most affirmative step so far to limit cell-phone location tracking by law enforcement. The California Location Privacy Act, passed with bipartisan support by the state's Assembly, could protect the location data created by citizens' cell phones, tablets and computers. Read More »