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Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies

Google has admitted complying with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws.Gordon Frazer, Microsoft UK's managing director, made news headlines some weeks ago when he admitted that Microsoft can be compel...

8 August 2011
11:43 GMT

American Cloud Providers Share Foreign Data with US Government

Microsoft admitted that itself and other American companies can be forced to hand over data belonging to foreign citizens hosted in datacenters around the world to the US government.Although this has been suspected for a while, none of the big cloud services providers have ever publicly acknowledged it.However, when ...

2 July 2011
01:31 GMT

FDIC Phishing Emails Scare Users with Patriot Act Violations

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) warns users about an ongoing phishing campaign which produces fake emails purporting to come from the organization."The e-mail informs the recipient that 'in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, federal, state and local governments…' t...

14 January 2011
03:32 GMT

Fascism in America

I'm sure you may have heard the growing claims that the course of events in motion in the United States offer excellent premises for the installation of a Fascist rule and a police state. In this piece, I will not attempt to persuade anyone that this is or is not the case, but provide a view of status-quo fr...

9 January 2010
13:01 GMT

Freedom of Speech Is Going Down the Drain in the US

From the same series as the infamous Patriot Act, authorities in the US seem to be turning the country into a police state more and more every day. This has been made especially clear recently, when a group of four animal rights activists have been arrested as “terrorists” in the Santa Cruz and Alameda co...

23 February 2009
12:01 GMT


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