A secret program from the defense contractor looks through Facebook, Twitter, Gowalla, and Foursquare to find out where a person lives and hangs out, to discover what he or she looks like, and even to predict what he or she will do in the future.
In a move sure to upset privacy advocates across the country, and perhaps spark action from the Supreme Court, the Senate on Friday morning passed FISA by a vote of 73-23 and will send it to President Obama's desk for signature.
A teenage spy for the New York Police Department says he was under orders to "create and capture" terrorist suspects by befriending fellow Muslims and "baiting" them with talk about jihad.
Cue the conspiracy theories: an 18-month, Reuters says it got its hands on "a White House-ordered review of security risks posed by suppliers to U.S. telecommunications companies" that cleared Chinese telecom giant Huawei of allegations of actively spying on the U.S. government. But we're not quite sure what to make of the report, since the White House has denied ordering the report in the first place.
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When a New Jersey building super spotted an apartment lacking in furniture and clothing but filled with surveillance equipment and Muslim literature, he assumed it was a terrorist hideout, but what he had discovered was a New York police safe house.
The steady drip of diplomatic scandals between the U.S. and Chinese governments keeps coming, this time with a report, delayed for months, that China arrested one of its own security officials for allegedly spying for the United States.
Working for the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division must be a sweet gig, as they get to travel to places like New Orleans to infiltrate activist groups there.
Want another sign that the New York Police Department was very explicitly spying on Muslims, on the basis of their religion alone? In the latest files unearthed yet again by the Associated Press, the NYPD kind of incriminates itself.
The former U.S. marine on death row in Iran got a reprieve on Monday when the supreme court there dismissed his death sentence and ordered a new hearing as U.S. President Barack Obama planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Last August, the Associated Press launched a series detailing how the New York Police Department has extensively investigated Muslims in New York and other states. ProPublica's Justin Elliott spoke to Faiza Patel to get a better understanding of the rules governing the NYPD.
The Associated Press reports that the New York Police Departments's controversial program to monitor Muslim neighborhoods and organizations was funded, at least in part, by White House grants meant to pay for the drug war.
At this point, it's not much of a surprise that police from New York spied on Muslims, whether it's in the city, on surrounding college campuses, or, as in the Associated Press's latest report, cities all around New York.
We don't necessarily blame the British government for denying the use of these fake rocks to spy on Russians in 2006, as admitting you're using these unsophisticated things (like a former official did today) is just as embarrassing as actually being caught spying.
Remember that guy who appeared on Iranian television last week and admitted to being a spy? Well, now he's on trial, and the prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
A man described by Iran's state-run Press TV as a U.S. spy with a decade of training made a very public "confession" on Sunday, describing in a live broadcast how he planned to feed information to authorities there in order to win confidence.
Meet the Open Source Center, the unassumingly-named CIA offshoot that spies on the world through "pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms -- anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly," the Associated Press's Kimberly Dozier reports.
It's not like China or Russia are looking at your embarrassing purchases or the hours you spend watching cat videos--it's all about economics.
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