Someone knows you are reading this. They know what device you are using. They know if you make it all the way to the end (which I hope you do!). They may be watching you read it, and listening to you. They know exactly where you are right now, and where you've been. As FBI Director James Comey recently proclaimed, "there is no thing as absolute privacy in America." Director Comey was speaking about legal snooping, authorized by the courts and carried out by law enforcement agencies, but, in many ways, that may be the least of our privacy concerns...
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CIA Invests In Geodata Expert OpenGeo
Derrick Harris | GigaOM | July 18, 2013
Summary: In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has put money into an open source geospatial-data startup called OpenGeo. Read More »
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Clade X pandemic exercise highlights policies needed to prevent or reduce the worst possible outcomes in future pandemics
Press Release |
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security |
May 15, 2018
The outbreak of a moderately contagious and moderately lethal novel pathogen precipitated a catastrophic end to the scenario in Clade X, the day-long pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security on May 15 in Washington, DC. Clade X simulated a series of National Security Council–convened meetings of 10 US government leaders, played by individuals prominent in the fields of national security or epidemic response. Their dialogue as the scenario unfolded addressed significant uncertainties in current prevention and response capabilities, hamstrung by policy challenges at the federal level.
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Doctors And Nurses Complicit In CIA Torture, Alleges Report By Institute Of Medicine And Open Society Foundations
Staff Writer | The Telegraph | November 4, 2013
DOCTOR and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report has alleged. Read More »
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Does John Brennan Know Too Much For Obama To Fire Him?
Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic | August 1, 2014
When John Brennan assured the country that the CIA hadn't improperly monitored the Senate team that compiled a report on Bush-era torture, he fed us false information. That much is clear from Thursday's news that "the C.I.A. secretly monitored a congressional committee charged with supervising its activities."...
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Eric Holder's Lawless Legacy: Column
James Bovard | USA Today | February 4, 2015
Eric Holder is reaping applause as his six-year reign as Attorney General comes to a close. But Holder's record is profoundly disappointing to anyone who expected the Obama administration to renounce the abuses of the previous administration...
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Exclusive: Pentagon Withholds Internal Report About Flawed $2.7 Billion Intel Program
Gordon Lubold, Shane Harris | Foreign Policy | March 18, 2014
The Army has spent years defending a multibillion-dollar intelligence system that critics say costs too much and does too little. A new internal report has found that there's a simple, relatively inexpensive program that could handle many of the same jobs at a fraction of the cost.
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Hackers Are Coming for Your Healthcare Records -- Here’s Why
Lucas Mearian | Computer World | June 30, 2016
Data stolen from a bank quickly becomes useless once the breach is discovered and passcodes are changed. But data from the healthcare industry, which includes both personal identities and medical histories, can live a lifetime. Cyberattacks will cost hospitals more than $305 billion over the next five years and one in 13 patients will have their data compromised by a hack, according to industry consultancy Accenture. And a study by the Brookings Institution predicts that one in four data breaches this year will hit the healthcare industry...
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Health Care in a Post-Privacy World
By Kim Bellard | March 14, 2017
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How Microsoft Handed The NSA Access To Encrypted Messages
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, et. al. | The Guardian | July 11, 2013
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents [...]. Read More »
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How The US Government Uses Information From Spying On Foreign Companies
Josh Meyer | Nextgov | July 18, 2013
There’s no longer doubt that the US government spies on foreign multinational corporations as well as governments, thanks to the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor turned international fugitive Edward Snowden. [...] Read More »
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James Risen's Risk Of Prison Means Journalism Is Being Criminalised
Lindsey Bever | The Guardian | August 10, 2013
That a New York Times national security reporter may be jailed for refusing to name a source is a total affront to press freedom Read More »
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John McCain, Lindsey Graham Slam CIA Spying As 'Worse Than Criminal'
Michael McAuliff | Huffington Post | August 1, 2014
The Central Intelligence Agency's infiltration and possible manipulation of computers belonging to Senate oversight investigators was "worse than criminal" and needs to be investigated, two key Republican senators charged Friday...
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Obama Administration Cites 'National Security' More Than Ever To Censor, Deny Records
Jack Gillium and Ted Bridis | Huffington Post | March 17, 2014
The Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.
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Panel: U.S. Doctors Violated Medical, Ethical Standards In Detention Facilities
Clara Ritger | National Journal | November 4, 2013
U.S. military and intelligence agencies improperly required doctors and health professionals to participate in "cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and torture of detainees," an independent panel has found. Read More »
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Rand Paul Slams Surveillance State 'Drunk With Power'
Shane Goldmacher | Nextgov | March 20, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul delivered a blistering critique of America's spy agencies on Wednesday, likening the surveillance state to the "dystopian nightmares" of literature and arguing that a growing number of his colleagues on Capitol Hill now fear an intelligence apparatus that is "drunk with power."
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