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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: government spying

government spying stories: 8 news summaries

(Newser) - Privacy groups are up in arms over a White House proposal to allow tracking technology to be used on government websites, the Washington Post reports. Supporters argue that social networking sites have used cookies and other tracking tools to spectacular effect, but the ACLU says the proposal is a... More »

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Google • online privacy • government spying • invasion of privacy • web cookies • Internet privacy • Obama administration • Jay-ZTV

Opinion

 Big Brother Comes to Sweden 

New surveillance law has country partying like it's 1984

Jul 13, 08 1:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don’t believe the hype: “Sweden is no cuddly liberal democracy,” writes Nathalie Rothschild for Spiked, berating her home country for “introducing the most Draconian surveillance law in Europe.” Known as the FRA law but nicknamed "Lex Orwell" by opponents, the legislation gives intelligence agencies... More »

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terrorism • surveillance • Sweden • FISA • Big Brother • eavesdropping • government spying

 Italy Plan to
 Fingerprint
 Gypsies
 Under Fire 

Measure against ethnic minority decried as racist

Jul 3, 08 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Italy has begun taking fingerprints from members of its Gypsy minority, in what the government calls a “census” of the people living in nomad encampments. The plans to document adults and children lacking an EU passport has brought condemnations from critics, who charge that “census” is the Berlusconi... More »

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Italy • fingerprinting • minority • government spying • Gypsy • Romani people • Roma people

Chavez Takes Over Intelligence Agencies

Extends domestic spying and requires citizens to be informers

Jun 3, 08 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez has ordered a draconian restructuring of Venezuela’s intelligence agencies, bringing them under his personal control, increasing domestic spying powers, and levying prison sentences on citizens who decline to cooperate, the New York Times reports. One justice on Venezuela’s top court expressed outrage, calling it “... More »

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Venezuela • intelligence • domestic intelligence • Patriot Act • Hugo Chávez • government spying • informant

Army Engineer Accused of Spying for Israel

American gave away information on nuclear weapons, fighter jets

Apr 22, 08 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - An 84-year old American engineer was arrested today on charges of providing information on US military technology to Israel, Reuters reports. Ben-Ami Kadish, 83, has already admitted in FBI interviews to giving an unnamed Israeli source around 100 documents on nuclear weapons, the F-15 jet and the Patriot missile defense... More »

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Israel • espionage • nuclear weapons • spy • missile defense system • government spying • Jonathan Pollard • F-15 fighter jet

NSA Spying Branches Out

Domestic calls, email, financial transactions under scrutiny—all without a warrant

Mar 10, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Traditionally charged with foreign surveillance, the NSA has increasingly been analyzing data collected domestically, reports the Wall Street Journal—on a scale comparable to that of a Pentagon proposal Congress killed 5 years ago. "When it got taken apart, it didn't get thrown away," says a former government... More »

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NSA • National Security Agency • wiretap • domestic spying • government spying • domestic wiretapping • data tracking • Intelligence Committee

US to Shoot Down Dead Satellite

Pentagon hopes to destroy it before it crashes to Earsh

Feb 14, 08 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - The Pentagon is planning to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite in orbit, the AP reports, rather than run the risk of it crashing to Earth—and possibly into unfriendly hands. The powerless satellite is currently expected to hit somewhere on Earth the first week of March; the US would... More »

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missile defense system • satellite • government spying • satellite images • spy satellite

AG Mukasey Sics Justice Probers on Wiretap Program

Surprise investigation signals new independence from White house

Nov 14, 07 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - New Attorney General Michael Mukasey has named the Justice Department 's first investigative target: the Justice Department. Mukasey has reopened an internal probe of the role played by the agency's own attorneys in the controversial post-911warrantless wiretap program, reports the Wall Street Journal. The move is a key signal... More »

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Department of Justice • wiretap • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act • Michael Mukasey • warrantless wiretapping • Office of Professional Responsibility • H. Marshall Jarrett • government spying

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