Tag: united-states

August 27, 2013 0

Dano on Bees – Lack of Same

By News Desk

Tweet “What gets measured gets managed†is a common phrase that we’ve all probably seen before. In ecology, that proposition is a double-edged sword

August 2, 2013 0

NSA tool collects "Nearly Everything You Do On the Internet"; Targeting Journalists; What Google Knows About You; Warrantless Cellphone…

By News Desk

• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. XKeyscore, the documents boast, is the NSA’s "widest reaching" system developing intelligence from computer networks – what the agency calls Digital Network Intelligence (DNI).