electronic surveillance programs

Privilege escalation requires more effort and knowledge than simple privilege abuse. The most obvious example is the case of Edward Snowden, a contractor who worked as a systems administrator for the NSA, who leaked classified details of a NSA electronic surveillance program to the Washington Post ...

Privilege escalation requires more effort and knowledge than simple privilege abuse. The most obvious example is the case of Edward Snowden, a contractor who worked as a systems administrator for the NSA, who leaked classified details of a NSA electronic surveillance program to the Washington Post ...

He will be subject to the electronic surveillance program if so directed by his probation officer. Falls was one of nine alleged members of a Hells Angels hangaround club in Charlottetown charged last year with taking money for games of chance without a lottery licence. Those charges are still before the ...

He will be subject to the electronic surveillance program if so directed by his probation officer. Falls was one of nine alleged members of a Hells Angels hangaround club in Charlottetown charged last year with taking money for games of chance without a lottery licence. Those charges are still before the ...

Washington (CNN) As lawmakers on Capitol Hill began to vote Thursday afternoon to extend a fiercely debated electronic surveillance program, a small circle of officials at the Justice Department huddled around a TV in a fifth-floor conference room watching C-SPAN. The group snacked on cookies and ...

Lawmakers also deferred action on the community health centers program as well as a long-term extension of electronic surveillance programs. Top White House officials and congressional leaders from both parties met in House Speaker Paul Ryan's office Wednesday to try to make progress on a stack of ...

In a historic en banc decision, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled last week that there is sufficient standing to proceed with a lawsuit that could require the court to publicly disclose the secret justifications behind the NSA's electronic surveillance program that was exposed by Edward ...

In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, America pursued two wars. One was a major military campaign to rout al-Qaida from Afghanistan and kill terrorists everywhere. The other was covert: a dramatically ramped-up electronic surveillance program to ferret out extremists and thwart their plots. Congress ...

Section 702 is the direct descendant of the warrantless electronic surveillance program instituted by the George W. Bush administration after Sept. 11, 2001, that caused a sensation when its existence was exposed by the New York Times in 2005. Unlike that shadowy program, Section 702 was duly ...

The law legalizes broad electronic surveillance programs like Prism, leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013. Privacy advocates say such incidental collection facilitates a loophole that lets NSA incidentally sweep up unrelated data belonging to Americans in the process, and likely amounts to ...

US spies still won't tell Congress the number of Americans caught in dragnet. Electronic surveillance programs Prism, Upstream hang in the congressional balance. David Kravets - 3/10/2017, 3:00 AM. Enlarge / A page from a classified PowerPoint presentation highlighting two US surveillance programs disclosed by NSA ...

Representatives again failed to respond to a year-old request for an estimate of the number of American communications caught up in electronic surveillance programs. Representatives have asked repeatedly for the information ahead of Congress' reauthorization of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...

Australians are likely to have been caught up in an American electronic surveillance program that allows analysts to track people's movements and contacts, an academic and lobby group have warned. Evidence of what may be the largest electronic surveillance operation in history – the gathering of phone ...