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<title>Wikimedia Foundation not involved in PRISM, opens up consultation</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/06/17/joins.open.letter.to.us.congress.to.halt.spying.program/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/wikipediamobilein.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Wikimedia Foundation has not been compromised under the PRISM spying program, and has not been asked to collect data on behalf of the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a statement released over the weekend. The foundation is also asking for feedback about what it should do about the threat to the privacy of its users and contributors....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple denies PRISM knowledge, insists most customer data secure</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/06/17/quiet.on.passive.backdoor.surveillance/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1371475505_applelogo-blackened.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has issued a rare follow-up public statement on the ongoing crisis over the National Security Agency's PRISM spying program.  Reports revealed that the NSA is using PRISM to collect communications data from internal servers at major technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.  All of the companies have denied providing a government backdoor; Apple in particular was q...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>ACLU sues NSA, FBI, US Attorney General over phone monitoring program</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/06/11/group.seeks.deletion.of.records.admission.of.constitutional.violation/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1370984730_nsacube-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union, in conjunction with the New York Civil Liberties Union, is suing the US government. The suit alleges that the National Security Agency's phone monitoring program violates the groups' first and fourth amendment Constitutional rights violating freedom of speech, freedom of press, as well as unreasonable search and seizure. Both groups are Verizon customers, and th...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Anonymous leaks NSA documents following reveal of spying program</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/06/07/leaked.documents.allegedly.cover.prism.supporting.systems/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1106/anonymous-irc.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[More documents allegedly related to the National Security Agency (NSA) and its data harvesting activities has surfaced, courtesy of hacking collective Anonymous. The group released a total of 13 documents that it claims "prove that the NSA is spying on you," and that its spying activities are not just covering Americans, but also people in over 35 different countries....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Leaked secret court order forces Verizon to pass call data to NSA</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/06/06/mass.call.record.logs.provided.to.nsa.on.daily.basis/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1370523362_nsalogothumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Verizon must hand over millions of records of phone calls to the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a leaked secret court order. According to the instructions, Verizon must provide call records and "telephony metadata" for calls it handles between people in the United States and international phone numbers, as well as calls within the US borders....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NSA exposes super-secure Android phone</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/01/phone.uses.off.the.shelf.parts.for.secure.calls/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/nsa-fishbowl-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The National Security Agency has designed an Android-based phone for secure conversations between US government staff members. The phones meet the agency's strict information security rules, but are also built with commercially available components. About 100 of the phones are currently in use....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Appeals court OKs other EFF suit over warrantless wiretaps</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/29/eff.greenlit.to.sue.nsa.over.wiretaps/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/att-losangeles2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation confirmed a partial win in trying to combat warrantless wiretapping.  While it had lost one appeal for carrier immunity, its representative Caroline Jewel and others were cleared by a Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals to sue the NSA, former President George W. Bush, much of the top Bush administration, and President Obama for allegedly violating the US Constituti...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NSA tracking Americans via cellphone location data?</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/07/26/agency.lawyer.hints.at.expanded.capabilities/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1105/nsa.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The National Security Agency may have been given the authority to track movements of American citizens within the country, despite the agency's focus on foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. NSA general counsel Matthew Olsen told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that the agency may have the authority to track Americans in certain situations, though he declined to elaborate....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple hires Navy, NSA expert as global security lead</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/22/apple.gets.navy.guru.david.rice.as.security.head/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1101/apple-davidrice.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has quietly hired David Rice as its Global Director of Security, multiple insiders said on Saturday.  The now former Monterey Group executive director built most of his experience as a cryptology officer in the US Navy and was also a Global Network Vulnerability analyst for the NSA.  AllThingsD noted that he might be best known in public for Geekonomics, a 2007 book that argued computer secu...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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