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F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets
The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call patterns of the associates of Americans... ...
Who’s editing Wikipedia? Diebold, the CIA, a campaign …
Wired by John Borland 08/14/07 On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the... ...
Lawsuit may detail secrets of spy program
MSNBC 08/14/07 In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a ’special job’ by the National Security Agency,... ...
Lawsuits May Illuminate Methods of Spy Program
Dan Egan, of the Washington Post, reports: "In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a 'special job' by the... ...
How we can take the Constitution back from the brink
AlterNet by Tara Lohan 08/09/07 At no time in our country’s history has the abuse of power by the executive branch been more flagrant and more dangerous to democracy. In just the past month, the Bush... ...
Data-Mining Our Liberties
Aziz Huq writes for The Nation, "The Protect America Act of 2007--the title alone ought to be warning that unsavory motives are at work--is the most recent example of the national security waltz, a three-step... ...
America under surveillance
Salon by Tim Shorrock 08/09/07 On one level, the engagement of the NGA and the U-2 flights over the Gulf Coast during Katrina were commendable efforts to use America’s vast surveillance powers for the... ...
Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over Spying
"A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases,... ...
Spy surge
Slate by Fred Kaplan 07/18/07 A year and a half ago, passionate arguments broke out over reports about the National Security Agency’s ‘data-mining’ technologies. A couple of years earlier, the Pentagon... ...
U.S. Details Some Data-Mining Programs, Hints at Others
While the reports -- required under two separate federal laws -- convey a sense of the breadth of these powerful agencies' data mining, they only hint at several projects powerful enough to accidentally... ...