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A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States on spying charges.
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Read More »UK opens door to Assange extradition to US on spying charges
Bill doesn’t limit NSA enough, Facebook, Google say
A group of technology companies, including Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and Apple Inc., said the bill U.S. lawmakers plan to vote on Thursday to limit National Security Agency spying doesn’t go far enough.
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Read More »Spying landlord hit with $1M verdict
A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury has found a Chevy Chase man liable for more than $1 million in damages for using a hidden camera to spy on a former tenant and her then-boyfriend.
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Read More »Spying-landlord suit goes to trial
In opening statements, the landlord’s lawyer did not deny the taping but did question the amount of damages claimed.
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Read More »Verizon reports 1,000-1,999 security data orders
WASHINGTON — Verizon Communications Inc. says it received between 1,000 and 1,999 government requests for customer information related to national security last year. The largest U.S. cellphone carrier made the disclosure Wednesday in its first report on law-enforcement data requests. ...
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Read More »Obama’s proposed changes to NSA spy programs
President Barack Obama is calling for major changes to the way the U.S. intelligence community collects and stores information about people in the U.S. and abroad, in the wake of disclosures that have sparked fury over sweeping government surveillance and ...
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Read More »Obama nearing a decision on intelligence review
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hosting a series of meetings this week with lawmakers, privacy advocates and intelligence officials as he nears a final decision on changes to the government’s controversial surveillance programs. Obama could announce the changes as ...
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Read More »Coalition sues to halt NSA electronic surveillance program
Environmental and human rights activists, church leaders and gun rights advocates found common ground on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit against the federal government to halt a vast National Security Agency electronic surveillance program. The lawsuit was filed in federal court ...
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Read More »Editorial Advisory Board: Collateral damage in the war on leaks
There is a “war on leaks” being waged by the U.S. Department of Justice and it’s generating serious collateral damage to the freedom of the American press to gather and report the news. Revelations that DOJ secretly subpoenaed the telephone records of The Associated Press (AP) and executed a search warrant for email communications between a Fox News reporter and his source are more than chilling; they threaten precious First Amendment values.
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Read More »Obama defends phone data collection program
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vigorously defended the government’s newly disclosed collection of massive amounts of information from phone and internet records on Friday as a necessary defense against terrorism, and assured Americans, “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.” ...
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