New Snowden Docs Reveal NSA Spy Tactic
It #39;s been a popular topic in recent years. Now, we #39;re starting to learn even more. Edward Snowden blew the lid off of the NSA and their secret spy programs when he leaked their documents...
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Exposed! NSA Program for Hacking Any Cell Phone Network, No Matter Where It Is!
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com The National Security Agency has spied on hundreds of companies and groups around the world, including in countries allied with the US government, as part...
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Shep Hyken on NSA NC January 17 2015 event
NSA National President Shep Hyken invites you to attend the chapter #39;s President #39;s Day event on January 17, 2015. Come hear Shep talk about what it takes to succeed as a professional speaker/trainer ...
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House lawmakers are attempting to revive a popular bill that would limit the National Security Agency's ability to spy on Americans' communications data, a day after the measure was left out from ongoing government funding negotiations.
The measure, dubbed the Secure Data Act and spearheaded by Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, would block the NSA and other intelligence agencies from compelling tech companies to create so-called backdoor vulnerabilities into their devices or software. Sen. Ron Wyden, also a Democrat, introduced a similar version of the bill earlier Thursday.
A Lofgren aide said the bill is expected to be introduced later Thursday with Republican cosponsors.
A broader form of the legislation overwhelmingly passed the House in June with bipartisan support on a 293-123 vote, in the form of an amendment tacked on to a defense appropriations bill. That previous bill additionally would have prevented intelligence agencies from engaging in content surveillance of Americans' communications data without a warrant.
But the language was left out of ongoing negotiations between both chambers over a spending package that would fund most government agencies into next year. The House has additionally barred amendments to that omnibus measure, a common practice.
On Thursday, 30 civil-liberties groups of both liberal and conservative leanings wrote to House leadership to urge it to retain the proposal as part of its funding package.
"Failing to include this amendment in the forthcoming FY15 omnibus will send a clear message to Americans that Congress does not care if the NSA searches their stored communications or if the government pressures American technology companies to build vulnerabilities into their products that assist in NSA surveillance," read the letter, whose signatories include the Electronic Frontier Foundation and TechFreedom.
Despite the sudden push and the margin with which the bill passed this summer, it remains unlikely the bill will move forward in lame-duck session, given the closed amendment process on the funding proposals. Aides to both Lofgren and Wyden conceded the reintroduction was largely to set goalposts for negotiations next year.
Broader NSA reform efforts crumbled in the Senate last month, as the USA Freedom Act came up two votes short of advancing. The lack of NSA reform this year has many privacy advocates worried that their cause faces an uphill battle in 2015, as Republicans retake the Senate.
Key portions of the post-9/11 Patriot Act are due to expire in June of next year, however, including Section 215, which grants the government much of its bulk spying authority. Congress will have to reauthorize the provisions in some fashion or risk losing even greater surveillance authority.
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Lawmakers to Reintroduce Bill to Limit NSA Spying
President Obama has a Friday deadline to decide whether to halt his NSA phone-snooping program or to keep it going, and after Congress failed to stop it last month some lawmakers now say the White House should pull the plug on its own.
The Senate had a chance to kill the program outright last month, but Republican senators filibustered, giving the snooping a renewed lease on life.
Still, the administration must seek approval every 90 days from the secret court that oversees intelligence activities, and the current 90-day period expires on Friday, creating a decision for Mr. Obama.
The president can end the NSAs dragnet collection of Americans phone records once and for all by not seeking reauthorization of this program by the FISA Court, and once again, I urge him to do just that, said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Leahy was the chief sponsor of the bill that would have nixed the intelligence communitys bulk collection abilities under the Patriot Act, which is the authority the administration cites for the National Security Agency phone-snooping. Under that program, the NSA stores five years worth of records of Americans phone calls, including the numbers involved and the time and duration.
The data is supposed to only be checked when officials believe a number is associated with terrorism.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it will release information if it does request another extension of its authority.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence didnt immediately respond to a message seeking comment Fridaymorning on the administrations plans.
Mr. Obama has called for the phone-snooping program to be curtailed, and has taken steps to limit it, including lowering the number of hops, or connections, investigators can go from the initial number they are investigating. The president also asked that the Justice Department try to ask the secret court for permission before querying the data.
The White House wants phone companies to store the data, which would keep it out of government hands but still make it available when investigators needed to poke through it.
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