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US spying program is violating rules on protecting citizen privacy rights, but carry on, FISA court tells FBI

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The US FISA court has authorized the FBI to continue using a warrantless surveillance program that taps conversations between Americans and non-citizens overseas despite finding that the government is violating privacy rules. … Read More >US spying program is violating rules on protecting citizen privacy rights, but carry on, FISA court tells FBI

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US Researchers Reportedly Spied on Russian Defence Officials Using Marketing Data From Cell Phones

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This is not the first time that American researchers have used data from cell phones that was obtained in questionable ways to spy on the Russian defence industry. In May, the analytics company Orbital Insights said that with the use of purchased cell network data it had detected a slowdown in the country’s defence industry. … Read More >US Researchers Reportedly Spied on Russian Defence Officials Using Marketing Data From Cell Phones

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Google vows to ban companies profiting from secretly spying on people, but doesn’t think to include itself

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In an effort to combat the monitoring of people’s activities without their knowledge, Google is changing its policies to prohibit the advertising of spyware products. The spy-happy tech giant evidently failed to grasp the irony… … Read More >Google vows to ban companies profiting from secretly spying on people, but doesn’t think to include itself