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Cyber Shield Allows Homeland Security To Dig Into All Internet Communications

The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks.

It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.

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Feds weigh expansion of Internet monitoring

SAN FRANCISCO–Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking a closer look at Internet communications in the future.

The Department of Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official told CNET on Wednesday that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is designed to detect and prevent electronic attacks, to networks operated by the private sector. The technology was created for federal networks.

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German court rules against data retention policy

The highest court in Germany has suspended a controversial law in Europe requiring phone and e-mail providers to hold customer data for six months in case it’s needed by law enforcement.

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Muslim women who refused to take ‘naked’ full-body scan are barred from Manchester to Pakistan flight

Two Muslim women have become the first passengers to refuse to subject themselves to controversial ‘naked’ full body airport scans, it emerged today.

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One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll

HANOVER, Germany — It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll Monday showed.

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Obama gives Patriot Act another year with no privacy protections

If the Patriot Act hadn’t been approved for another year, Sunday would have looked much different. But since the bill was approved by Congressional Democrats earlier this week and signed into law by President Obama on Saturday, this Sunday is just another Sunday for Americans living with the Patriot Act.

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Cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency powers

The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation.

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Paypal Froze my non profit USWGO Account, requires information about my operations

When I first read it I thought it was a scam but then I found out that days after the Austin Plane Crash suicide attack against the IRS the government has been stepping up their security and surveillance efforts and my paypal account has been targeted by paypal

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Fourth Amendment Trashed As Airport Tyranny Hits The Streets

Tampa police, TSA and Homeland Security agents are teaming up “to keep your family safe,” according to ABC News, by implementing random searches at bus depots, in yet another example of how airport tyranny is being rolled out onto the streets.

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ACLU Objects to Reported Google Partnership With NSA

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking its members to contact Google executives and ask them not to work with the U.S. National Security Agency to investigate cyberattacks allegedly coming from China.

The civil liberties advocacy group, in an e-mail sent to members this week, asked them to object to the “troubling” partnership. The Washington Post reported last Thursday that Google and the NSA were drafting an agreement in which the spy agency would help the company investigate a major cyberattack that allegedly originated from within China.

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