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Actually, Myspace Sold Your Data Too - VICE

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Judge on NSA: “This court believes there are millions and millions of Americans whose constitutional rights have been and are being violated.”

Judge on NSA: “This court believes there are millions and millions of Americans whose constitutional rights have been and are being violated.”

By Against Crony Capitalism

September 3, 2015

  Judge on NSA: “This court believes there are millions and millions of Americans whose constitutional rights have been and are being violated.”

    This is in reference to the NSA’s “bulk data” collection program.

You’re darn right that millions of people’s rights are being violated by this program. We have a Constitution. We have a 4th Amendment.…

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Obama wants to restart bulk phone record collection as a proper "transition"

Obama wants to restart bulk phone record collection as a proper “transition”

So, then, I fed him some techy-sounding crap and he rolled over! The Obama administration intends to use part of a law banning the bulk collection of US phone records to temporarily restart the bulk collection of US phone records. US officials confirmed to the Guardian that in the coming days they will ask a secret surveillance court to revive the program – deemed illegal by a federal appeals…

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New Post has been published on Citizensjournal.us

New Post has been published on http://citizensjournal.us/nsa-phone-program-doomed-as-senate-passes-usa-freedom-act/

NSA phone program doomed as Senate passes USA Freedom Act

The National Security Agency’s phone-snooping program is on its last legs after senators approved the USA Freedom Act Tuesday, rewriting the sweeping Patriot Act to ban bulk collection of Americans’ data and adding more transparency checks to the secret court that oversees intelligence gathering in the hopes of heading off future surprises.

  Read more in Washington Times

  Editor’s note: We have not seen the final bill yet and cannot confirm what it says.

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NSA reform: Bush-era powers expire as US prepares to roll back surveillance | The Guardian

Sweeping US surveillance powers, enjoyed by the National Security Agency since the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, shut down at midnight after a dramatic Senate showdown in which even the NSA’s biggest supporters conceded that substantial reforms were inevitable.

Almost two years after the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed to the Guardian that the Patriot Act was secretly being used to justify the collection of phone records from millions of Americans, critics of bulk surveillance went further than expected and forced the end of a range of other legal authorities covered by the Bush-era Patriot Act as well.

The expired provisions, subject to a “sunset” clause from the beginning of June onwards, are likely to be replaced later this week with new legislation – the USA Freedom Act – that permanently bans the NSA from collecting telephone records in bulk and introduces new transparency rules for other surveillance activities. The USA Freedom Act, once passed, will be the first rollback of NSA surveillance since the seminal 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Act Now To Terminate The Gestapo PATRIOT Act — John V. Walsh

Act Now To Terminate The Gestapo PATRIOT Act — John V. Walsh

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts.org

May 30, 2015

  Act Now To Terminate The Gestapo PATRIOT Act — John V. Walsh

  (Image courtesy of EFF Photos)

  Contact Your Senator NOW – An Important Victory is Just Within Sight. YOU Can Terminate The Patriot Act and Its Ugly Siblings.

John V. Walsh

This Sunday, at midnight, the notorious Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire. Section…

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The Sun Must Set on Mass Surveillance

The Sun Must Set on Mass Surveillance

By Timothy Karr

Freepress.net

May 30, 2015

  The Sun Must Set on Mass Surveillance The Senate’s pro-surveillance wing is scrambling to advance new legislation to preserve the NSA’s unchecked ability to spy on all of us.

  And they’re in a rush. Authorization for the federal government’s bulk collection of phone records is set to expire on June 1.

Their efforts were scuttled last Friday — moments…

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House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection

"The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to end the federal government’s bulk collection of phone records, exerting enormous pressure on Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate majority leader, who insists that dragnet sweeps continue in defiance of many of those in his Republican Party. 

Under the bipartisan bill, which passed 338 to 88, the Patriot Act would be changed to prohibit bulk collection by the National Security Agency of metadata charting telephone calls made by Americans.

Edward Snowden is being vindicated.