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US spy aircraft patrolling northern border

Mick Meaney June 19, 2009 0

U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned surveillance aircraft to judge whether the drones can be used more widely along the U.S.-Canadian border, including at a crossing where cigarette and drug smuggling are a

Concern that Obama might endorse warrantless wiretapping

Mick Meaney June 16, 2009 0

Dear Mr. President, I am writing to reiterate my request for you to formally and promptly renounce the assertions of executive authority made by the Bush Administration with regard to warrantless wiretapping. As a

Council worker feared she was being spied on

Mick Meaney January 31, 2009 0

Christine Laird thought her emails were being spied on while she was managing director of Cheltenham Borough Council and asked Gloucestershire police and GCHQ to investigate, a court was told yesterday. Mrs Laird is

Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns

Mick Meaney December 8, 2008 1

By Bob Drogin Reporting from Takoma Park, Md. — To friends in the protest movement, Lucy was an eager 20-something who attended their events and sent encouraging e-mails to support their causes. Only one

Keeping America Safe from Terrorism by Monitoring Distillery Webcams

Mick Meaney November 3, 2008 2

Via Bruce Schneier | Really: We had an email recently from an observer “curious as to why the webcam that was inside the shop/bar is no longer there, or at least, functional”. The email

Democracy Now Follows Up on NSA’s Illegal Spying and War Crimes

Mick Meaney October 14, 2008 1

By David Swanson | Democracy Now! today not only admitted that I had broken the story but followed up on the story of illegal NSA spying, including the evidence of war crimes. Link to original.

Chinese intelligence alerts travelers to cyber spies

Mick Meaney August 12, 2008 0

By Kathryn Muratore | This past week, the head of the Chinese National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) held a press conference noting that “Somebody with a wireless device in the US should expect it to be

Maryland Governor Orders Investigation of Spying by State Troopers

Mick Meaney August 2, 2008 0

By Matthew Rothschild | Maryland Governor Orders Investigation of Spying by State Troopers On July 31, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley appointed the former attorney general of the state Stephen Sachs to head up an

Groups Sue U.S. for Data On Tracking By Cellphone

Mick Meaney July 2, 2008 1

By Ellen Nakashima | Two civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government yesterday, seeking records related to the government’s use of cellphones as tracking devices. The American Civil Liberties Union and the

Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism Prosecutions

Mick Meaney May 15, 2008 0

By Richard B. Schmitt | The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after

BAE Systems To Build Mini Spy Robots

Mick Meaney May 1, 2008 0

EFY | The company has partnered with the US Army Research Laboratory to build miniature robots for military use. BAE Systems has signed a $38 million agreement with the US Army Research Laboratory to

U.S. Islamic group argues against warrantless wiretaps

Mick Meaney April 25, 2008 1

AP | An Islamic charity group is challenging the Bush administration’s record use of the so-called state secrets privilege, dubbed a “killer bullet” to the group’s case over warrantless wiretapping. Lawyers for the Oregon-based

America can now spy on British motorists

Mick Meaney April 21, 2008 1

By Toby Helm and Christopher Hope | Routine journeys carried out by millions of British motorists can be monitored by authorities in the United States and other enforcement agencies across the world under anti-terrorism

Documents prove FBI tracks Internet and phones

Mick Meaney April 9, 2008 0

FBI also spies on home soil for military, documents show; Much information acquired without court order John Byrne The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone

Ecuador slams CIA spy interference

Mick Meaney April 6, 2008 0

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has blasted the CIA for financing the country’s intelligence agencies to pass information to Colombia. “Many of our intelligence agencies have been taken over by the CIA,” the Correa said

More Sharp Words Traded Over Lapsed Wiretap Law

Mick Meaney April 6, 2008 0

By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — A new round of political sparring erupted Friday over the government’s wiretapping powers, as the Bush administration asserted that the lapsing of a surveillance law a week ago has

US analyst admits spying for China

Mick Meaney April 1, 2008 0

A US Defense Department analyst has pleaded guilty to delivering classified information to a Louisiana businessman working for China. Gregg Bergersen, a weapons analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who held top secret

Wiretapping’s true danger

Mick Meaney March 20, 2008 0

History says we should worry less about privacy and more about political spying. As the battle over reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rages in Congress, civil libertarians warn that legislation sought by

Government wants e-mail spying to last for longer

Mick Meaney March 12, 2008 0

Amendments to the Federal Telecommunications Interception Act will be put before the House of Representatives today, as the government seeks to extend the limit of a sunset clause which allows authorities to monitor internal

Why we sued the phone company

Mick Meaney March 2, 2008 0

By Studs Terkel, Quentin Young, Barbara Flynn Currie and James Montgomery More than six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration remains committed to using the specter of those

Royal bugging claims denied

Mick Meaney February 28, 2008 0

Claims the Royal Family was being bugged by GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) have been denied at the Princess Diana inquest. Rumours were rife by 1993 that the Government’s intelligence and security organisation may have

US intelligence to spy on virtual worlds

Mick Meaney February 25, 2008 1

By Ryan Singel Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft

Calls for probe into prison bugging

Mick Meaney February 10, 2008 0

An inquiry has been demanded into claims lawyers’ legally-protected conversations with clients in jail are routinely bugged. Opposition parties said such a practice would strike “at the heart” of the justice system and suggested

Was bugging carried out for the FBI?

Mick Meaney February 7, 2008 0

Sean O’Neill The inquiry into the bugging of a terrorist prisoner and his MP has been asked to examine whether the eavesdropping was carried out at the request of the FBI. The Times has

MP first probed by MI5 over 9/11

Mick Meaney February 6, 2008 1

By NICK PARKER THOMAS WHITAKER and GRAEME WILSON BUGGING scandal MP Sadiq Khan was first probed by security services over his association with a 9/11 terrorist, The Sun can reveal. And it has emerged