Showing posts with label internet privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet privacy. Show all posts

7/08/2008

AT&T Whistleblower Against Immunity for Telecoms

AT&T Whistleblower Urges Against Immunity for Telecoms in Bush Spy Program
The Senate is expected to vote on a controversial measure to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act tomorrow. The legislation would rewrite the nation's surveillance laws and authorize the National Security Agency's secret program of warrantless wiretapping. We speak with Mark Klein, a technician with AT&T for over twenty-two years. In 2006 Klein leaked internal AT&T documents that revealed the company had set up a secret room in its San Francisco office to give the National Security Agency access to its fiber optic internet cables.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7//att_t_whistleblower_urges_against

2/23/2008

Two Useful Sites

http://www.hoax-slayer.com
http://www.snopes.com

1/11/2007

Are We Surprised?

Feds Want Your Internet Records
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807O.shtml
The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every web site you visit. For more than a year, the US Justice Department has been in discussions with Internet companies and privacy rights advocates, trying to come up with a plan that would make it easier for investigators to check records of web traffic.