Is it really okay for the government to do this? From ABC News: Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer. [...] Read more »

I dropped Verizon – mid-contract – and switched to Credo Mobile because of a little thing I like to call “not being spied on by my government“. Boy am I glad I did. Now I learn that Verizon’s fascism-loving isn’t restricted to the government in general, but to one party in particular. From the Washington [...] Read more »

This gives me an icky feeling: The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday. Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislative hearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents [...] Read more »

All you have to do is stand upright in the United States: Shia Labeouf was in for a scare when he started filming new action thriller Eagle Eye – because CIA operatives gave him a taste of what they have on file about him. The actor thought the film, in which he plays a man [...] Read more »