NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

British Spies Are Free to Target Lawyers and Journalists

 

The Justice Department Wants Wider Hacking Authorities for the FBI

 

Vodafone-Linked Company Aided British Mass Surveillance

 

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2851624/nsa-privacy-chief-defends-agencys-surveillance.html

 

Of course it's legal. Anything is legal when you make up your own rules as you go. AFAIC, "laws" from an agency that has no constitutional authority to exist are as illegitimate as they are.

 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...o-telco-gave-spies-global-surveillance-reach/

 

Former NSA Official: Here Are 4 Things Edward Snowden Gets Wildly Wrong About American Spying

 

Right, and we can believe him, right?

Is it sad or funny?

 

FBI Agents Pose as Repairmen to Bypass Warrant Process

 

Snowden documents reveal how British intelligence target Irish internet traffic

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/...e-gchq-tapped-irish-internet-cables-1.2019492

 

INCENSER, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables

 

By Alleen Brown

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/03/global-climate-conference-spying-just-part-woodwork/

 

By Ryan Gallagher

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/05/uk-mass-surveillance-laws-human-rights-tribunal-gchq

https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/3

Submitted by Mike Rispoli

 

NSA program for hacking any cell phone network, no matter where it is

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-any-cellphone-network-no-matter-where-it-is/

 

There is no right to privacy in the UK. Just sayin'

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/julian-assange-on-living-in-a-surveillance-society.html

 

Well, in a sense there is if you believe in the applicability of the HRA, to which the UK are signatories. Of course, we have proposals by the Conservative government that they will (possibly) withdraw from the HRA and certainly the ECHR, and create their own bill of Rights, administered by a UK court. Probably in secret.

In previous judgements (for instance, the unanimous and damning verdict on the treatment of DNA retention) - they basically ignored the ruling for years, so where that leaves the rule of law.....

What is enforced is rich people's right to privacy, and increasingly, security services trying to be anonymous and avoid accountability.

 

From Let's Play NSA! The Hackers Open-Sourcing Top Secret Spy Tools:

 

From [USA] Congress Quietly Bolsters NSA Spying in Intelligence Bill:

 

FUD and blackmail, methinks

 

From The Emergency EO 12333 Fix: Section 309:

 

By Ryan Gallagher

Operation Socialist: How GCHQ Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco

 

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/25/7449251/nsa-incompetent-spying-christmas-newsdump

 

"NSA reports detail decade's worth of privacy violations"

http://thehill.com/policy/technolog.../228107-nsa-reports-detail-privacy-violations