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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment   —  Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government.
Jun 18, 2013, 4:00 PMIn context
Washington Post:
State photo-ID databases become troves for police   —  The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver's-license fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders …
Jun 17, 2013, 7:45 AMIn context
Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post:
NSA-proof encryption exists.  Why doesn't anyone use it?   —  Computer programmers believe they know how to build cryptographic systems that are impossible for anyone, even the U.S. government, to crack.  So why can the NSA read your e-mail?  —  Last week, leaks revealed that the Web sites …
Jun 16, 2013, 4:40 PMIn context
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata   —  On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
Jun 16, 2013, 4:40 AMIn context
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. disrupts al-Qaeda's online magazine   —  U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent al-Qaeda online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the group's followers, according to officials.  —  The operation succeeded, at least temporarily …
Jun 11, 2013, 2:45 PMIn context
Washington Post:
Investigators looking into how Snowden gained access at NSA   —  Counterintelligence investigators are scrutinizing how a 29-year-old contractor who said he leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents was able to gain access to what should be highly compartmentalized information …
Jun 11, 2013, 4:10 AMIn context
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks   —  He alluded to other options, aware that he had secrets of considerable financial value, but said, “I have no desire to provide raw source material to a foreign government.”
Jun 9, 2013, 10:50 PMIn context
Washington Post:
U.S., company officials: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data   —  The director of national intelligence on Saturday stepped up his public defense of a top-secret government data surveillance program as technology companies began privately explaining the mechanics of its use.
Jun 9, 2013, 5:40 AMIn context
Washington Post:
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program   —  Through a Top-Secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine internet companies for a wide range of digital data.
Jun 6, 2013, 6:25 PMIn context
Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program   —  The PRISM program is not a dragnet, exactly.  From inside a company's data stream the NSA is capable of pulling out anything it likes, but under current rules the agency does not try to collect it all.
Jun 6, 2013, 5:56 PMIn context

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