U.S. continues to spy on ordinary citizens
During a recent trip to Europe, President Obama said that the U.S. intelligence community was not snooping on “ordinary citizens,”…
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Disclosures show crowd-scanning facial recognition system tested by U.S.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tested a crowd-scanning facial recognition system last year, called the Biometric Optical Surveillance System (BOSS), following…
U.S. government illegally spying, audit confirms
A top secret internal audit conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) found the agency broke its own privacy rules and…
U.S. denies it operates illegal internet surveillance program
The United States Government has denied that it operates a surveillance program with direct access to Google, Facebook, Apple and other…
