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Judge renews procedures for 702 surveillance program that could soon lapse 2026-04-10 22:46 Nextgov/FCW - Washington D.C. The Trump administration notified Congress that the government’s top intelligence court last month renewed its endorsement of a contentious surveillance program, letting it operate for another year even though it’s set to expire soon without reapproval …
Congress can finally close a mass surveillance loophole — but will they? 2026-04-10 19:53 The Verge A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal in Congress. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), last reauthorized in 2024, is set to expire on April 20th. A bipartisan …
Through Meta Glasses, Darkly 2026-04-09 21:50 Jacobin It’s 2026, and we’re building up a surveillance society in earnest. A few years ago, I rewatched Enemy of the State. Released in 1998, just before the calendar rolled over into the new millennium, the film captured the late-century anxieties of a …
Former national security officials urge Congress to renew Section 702 before expiration 2026-04-08 17:23 Nextgov/FCW - Washington D.C. Around four dozen former national security officials urged Congress to renew a contentious spying power before it expires later this month, asking that lawmakers ensure the reauthorization process doesn’t get entangled with other legislative matters, …
Kanye West banned from the UK, Wireless Festival canceled 2026-04-08 07:16 Paste Wireless Festival, a London rap and hip-hop celebration held each summer in London’s Hyde Park, has announced that its 2026 iteration will no longer take place. The decision comes in the wake of international backlash to the festival booking Kanye West to …
Leaked: Britain Exports Secret Government Agency’s Dark Arts Overseas 2026-04-04 10:18 CovertAction Magazine [Source: freepik.com] Documents obtained by CovertAction Magazine reveal how prolific Western government contractor Torchlight, staffed by British military and intelligence veterans, has covertly trained “commercial and government clients” the world over …
Double Shot of Privacy's Defender in D.C. 2026-04-04 04:08 Electronic Frontier Foundation You’re invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and argued before judges to protect our access to science and knowledge on the …
Triple Header for Privacy’s Defender in New York 2026-04-04 04:04 Electronic Frontier Foundation You’re invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and argued before judges to protect our access to science and knowledge on the …
'Mass surveillance isn’t just viable, it already happens' — AI experts warn the threat is already here 2026-04-04 03:17 TechRadar Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Tech Radar Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was …
Single-member surveillance watchdog backs 702 powers, raising independence questions 2026-04-03 04:05 Nextgov/FCW - Washington D.C. A staff report produced under the government’s top surveillance oversight watchdog largely praises the value of a controversial spying authority set to lapse later this month, raising concerns from civil liberties groups who question the validity of the …
The Track Record of the Collective West In Regards to Human Rights and International Law 2026-04-02 09:38 CounterPunch A detached observer who wants to assess where countries stand on fundamental issues of human rights, international law, peace, development and multilateralism need only look at the voting record of States at the United Nations Security Council, General …
Can corporate scandals reinvigorate democracy? 2026-04-02 05:48 Niskanen Center Polarized politics is not leaving much room for agreement on economic regulation, even as inequality and business power grow. But Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee find that corporate scandals can often mobilize the public and wider interests to overcome big …
Jonathan Cook: US or Israel? Neither Is Top Dog 2026-03-31 18:48 Consortium News Binary thinking in the argument over whether the U.S. or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other. M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) during …
Does the Tail Wag the Dog? How Both Sides Are Missing the Bigger Picture 2026-03-30 18:44 Antiwar The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes Israel lured Trump into a trap …
Was the FBI Raid on a Washington Post Reporter’s Home an Act of Retribution? 2026-03-30 14:36 Columbia Journalism Review Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2022, Kash Patel, now the director of the FBI, published The Plot Against the King, the first in his series of illustrated children’s books. In The Plot and its two sequels, which draw on the stolen-2020-election …
Commentary: In defense of ‘defective altruism’ — Tosin Akintola 2026-03-30 05:35 Journal Courier - Illinois Commentary: In a data-centric world, there’s nothing wrong with questioning if the phrase “any lawful use” is enough of a bulwark to protect Americans.Fiordaliso/Getty Images Syndicated After a public bout with the artificial intelligence company …
The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy 2026-03-29 14:04 Rolling Stone O n Jan. 11, 1994, I drove to UCLA’s Royce Hall to hear Vice President Al Gore deliver the keynote address at the Information Superhighway Conference. I was in the early stages of building Intertainer, which would become one of the first video-on-demand …
The strange case of Joe Kent 2026-03-28 20:04 Renew America By Cliff Kincaid March 27, 2026 One can be a supporter of President Trump’s foreign policy, including the war with Iran, while questioning his appointments, one of which, Joseph Kent, was confirmed by the Senate as Director of the National Counterterrorism …
Jonathan Cook: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture 2026-03-28 17:36 Asia Pacific Report ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes …
In defense of 'defective altruism' 2026-03-28 04:00 The Daily Star - Louisiana After a public bout with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, over the company’s stipulations prohibiting the use of its product to operate fully autonomous weapons or to conduct mass surveillance of Americans, President …
Jonathan Cook – Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture 2026-03-27 18:35 Brave New Europe The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes Israel lured Trump into a trap …
Claude and the Constitution: Questions Congress Should Ask Before Renewing Section 702 2026-03-27 18:18 Just Security By law, on April 20, 2026, a broad tool for intercepting the communications of foreigners abroad – Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – will sunset, unless Congress decides to renew it. This deadline gives Congress an unusual …
The Late Robert Mueller, Bill Of Rights Executioner – OpEd 2026-03-27 02:10 Eurasia Review Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece. Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a “ …
Oliver Stone Returns To Direct Josh Hartnett in Intimate Epic 'White Lies' 2026-03-25 18:03 Movie Web Iconoclastic Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone built an incredible career with challenging films that both united and divided audiences. The director has taken on the Vietnam War with Platoon (1986), the Kennedy assassination in JFK (1991), 1980s excess …
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant 2026-03-25 09:26 WPRL - Mississippi A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry also sells that data, including bulk cell phone location …
The Universal Lament Of The Algorithmic Age 2026-03-25 05:51 Kashmir Reader Beneath the screen, algorithms anticipate our pauses and swipes with ‘dark poetry written in code’. The solution is not more consumption, but selective disengagement. Shakir Mustehsin Before the internet became an affordable, omnipresent utility in India, …
The Illusion of American Democracy: What America Sees Abroad—and Refuses to See at Home 2026-03-24 15:48 The Free Press The latest 2026 report from global democracy watchdogs marks a moment that would have been difficult to imagine only a generation ago. According to the V-Dem Institute, the United States now ranks 51st out of 179 countries in measures of liberal democracy …
Examining the sanity of saner climes 2026-03-24 11:15 The Cable Stay connected via Google News BY AMIR ABDULAZEEZ Several decades into the global modern era, Africans, Asians and Latin Americans continue to be held hostage by their colonially indoctrinated inferior mindsets engineered by the blackmail and mythology of …
Emergency to Digital Emergency Architecture, a Legacy of Pranab Mukherjee: India's First Mass Surveillance, Mass Spying Unending Census Case-Part 15 2026-03-24 04:19 Moneylife India Had Adam Gondvi (1947-2011) been alive, he would say, “In your executive, legislative, judicial and editorial files, Aadhaar number online database may appear rosy, but this data is fake, this is filish”. In his book Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to …
Democrats Might Save Mike Johnson’s Push to Give Trump Domestic Spying Power 2026-03-23 21:40 The Intercept Thanks to opposition from inside his own party, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a vote on President Donald Trump’s request to extend a major domestic spying law — but Democrats could ride to the rescue. Johnson decided to delay a …
Dustin Volz joins The New York Times 2026-03-23 19:35 Editor and Publisher Dustin Volz Press Release | The New York Times Nearly every day, we get another reminder about how new cybertactics and artificial intelligence advancements are transforming national security, intelligence and law enforcement. Staying on the leading edge …
Does the Anthropic–Pentagon feud mean the end of responsible AI? | The TechTank Podcast 2026-03-23 13:55 The Brookings Institution [00:00:00] CO-HOST NICOL TURNER LEE: You are listening to Tech Tank, a biweekly podcast from the Brookings Institution exploring the most consequential technology issues of our time, from racial bias and algorithms to the future of work Tech Tank takes big …
Robert Mueller obituary 2026-03-22 18:20 The Guardian Robert Mueller, who has died aged 81, led an investigation, as US special counsel, into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election and alleged collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign team. Trump was enraged by the two-year-long investigation, …
Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next 2026-03-22 18:00 The Verge This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about online age verification and your privacy, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The …
Gabbard Dodges Questions on Whether Iran Was ‘Imminent Threat’ 2026-03-19 14:57 Deccan Chronicle Spy chief Tulsi Gabbard dodged questions about the severity of the threat posed by Iran in Senate testimony on Wednesday, with the long-time skeptic of foreign interventions careful not to contradict either her own past beliefs or the Trump administration’ …
Is this privacy-based phone operating system moving mainstream? 2026-03-19 10:24 The Irish Times Motorola is the granddaddy of the mobile phone world. In 1983 it unveiled the world’s first commercial handset: a brick-like wodge of a thing that took 10 hours to charge enough for 30 minutes of call-time. Four decades and several changes of ownership …
Revealed: How HMRC has been quietly building surveillance capabilities 2026-03-16 19:50 TechTarget The UK’s tax and customs authority has been quietly amassing an arsenal of surveillance technology, signing contracts with companies that supply mobile phone tracking equipment for downloading the content of mobile devices. Since multibillion-pound tax …
Listen, do you want to know a secret? 2026-03-15 21:27 The Manila Times ACTUALLY, it is an open secret. Embassies are listening posts. Not just for covert extracting of information but for open, paid means. Internet and satellite communications have overtaken the covert ways to get crucial information about a country where an …
Now we can protect whistleblowers 2026-03-15 17:41 The Free Press The Espionage Act has been used and abused to punish whistleblowers, journalists, and publishers, prosecuting them as if they were traitorous enemies, but denying them the right to put forward the defense that they were exposing, rather than committing, a …
Five-time Pulitzer winner to speak at Poor Richard’s 2026-03-15 14:17 The Gazette - Colorado Carol Leonnig, a five-time Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime Washington Post reporter, will be at Poor Richard’s bookstore in Colorado Springs Tuesday to talk about her new book, “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.” …
Reds race to save Reds in Cuba 2026-03-14 10:32 Renew America By Cliff Kincaid March 13, 2026 With the Iranian regime in tatters and the boy Ayatollah struggling to survive another bombing, the communists are hoping to move on and save Communist Cuba from the ultimate fate. Two “former” communist front groups, the U. …
Africa’s data, the new sovereignty frontier 2026-03-13 15:50 Mail & Guardian Guard jealously: Africa must move at pace with other nations seeking to protect data as a strategic asset. Photo: Dragos Condrea The concept of sovereignty has evolved over the centuries, originating from the Latin roots ‘super’, meaning ‘above’ and …
Opinion | The Bunker Paradox: When National Security Becomes A Master Key To Your Private Life 2026-03-13 04:43 News18 Last Updated:March 12, 2026, 23:09 IST The infrastructure hardening that protects data from kinetic attack may simultaneously expose it to a subtler, more permanent threat – absorption into the national security state Rapid Read Summarized by AI. + In my …
FBI queries of Americans’ data under FISA 702 rose 35% in 2025 2026-03-13 00:42 Nextgov/FCW - Washington D.C. FBI searches of U.S. person data collected using a controversial spying authority rose some 35% in 2025, according to an FBI letter to Congress that was obtained by Nextgov/FCW. The bureau’s searches of Americans’ data, collected under Section 702 of …
MSM could be a war casualty 2026-03-13 00:00 The Hindu Tucker Carlson’s interviews with Vladimir Putin in February 2024 (in picture) and with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in July 2025 — conducted in the immediate aftermath of the first Israel-Iran war — made alternative perspectives available to the …
Rashida Tlaib introduces legislation to defend people who expose government corruption 2026-03-12 23:16 Detroit Metro Times - Michigan During the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg — a peace activist from Michigan who had worked as an analyst in the U.S. Department of Defense — became so disillusioned with the quagmire that he leaked a critical top-secret report dubbed the “Pentagon Papers” to …
Named for Daniel Ellsberg, Tlaib Proposal Would Protect Whistleblowers and Journalists 2026-03-12 22:38 Common Dreams Warning that the Espionage Act has been used to "persecute and criminalize" dissenters, journalists, and whistleblowers numerous times since it was passed into law, US Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Thursday introduced the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom …
How this Air Force veteran allegedly spied for Iran 2026-03-12 21:51 We Are The Mighty - Florida Get We Are The Mighty’s Weekly Newsletter Military culture and entertainment direct to your inbox with zero chance of a ‘Reply All’ incident Monica Witt stepped off a plane in Tehran in late August 2013 and began a new life. No matter how hard the United …
Breaking: Trump threatens Iran's national team in FIFA World Cup, "for their own life" 2026-03-12 18:50 Legit News President Donald Trump of the United States has said he did not believe it is "appropriate" for the Iranian national football team to participate in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which would be co-hosted by the US, citing safety concerns, while the …
Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you 2026-03-12 15:30 The Verge Today we’re talking about the messy, fast-moving situation at Anthropic, the maker of Claude that now finds itself in a very ugly legal battle with the Pentagon. The back-and-forth is complicated, but as of a few days ago, the Pentagon had deemed Anthropic …