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U.S. adopts digital-era privacy rules to regulate how phone companies track devicesThe justices’ 5-4 decision marks a big change in how police may obtain information that phone companies collect from the ubiquitous cellphone towers that allow people to make and receive calls, and transmit data.ConsumerJun 23, 2018
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Vodafone report shows governments can access data without seeking permissionVodafone revealed the scope of government snooping Friday, saying authorities in some countries are able to directly access an operator's network without permission.TechJun 6, 2014
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US contractor says it has fired Edward Snowden after NSA leaksBooz Allen Hamilton, a government contractor under fire after the disclosure of classified surveillance programs, said Tuesday it has fired Edward Snowden, the employee who leaked details of the secret National Security Agency programs.TechJun 11, 2013
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UK journalist makes no secret of feelings on phone records caseThe man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a U.K.-based publication who has made no secret of his distaste for intrusions on privacy.TechJun 11, 2013
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EU lawmakers attack US snooping programs that class European allies as ‘foreigners’European Union lawmakers took aim at the United States Tuesday for its recently revealed data snooping program, attacking Washington for treating its European allies as "foreigners" who are legitimate targets for surveillance.WorldJun 11, 2013
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Former CIA employee who leaked security documents faces hard choices in hidingEdward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs, has few options to stay one step ahead of the authorities while in apparent hiding.Jun 11, 2013
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Globally, people resigned to little privacy onlineNews that the U.S. government has been snooping on Internet users worldwide came as little surprise to global netizens, who said Friday they have few expectations of online privacy as governments increasingly monitor people's digital lives, often with Internet companies' acquiescence.MoneyJun 7, 2013
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Whodunnit? Questions swirl around who leaked surveillance stories to mediaWith two explosive leaks this week about the Obama administration's widespread surveillance practices, questions now turn to who's responsible for providing the information to the media amid already tense relations between the White House and journalists.WorldJun 7, 2013
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US justice chief Holder says government won’t prosecute journalists for doing their jobsU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantanamo prison it wants to close.Jun 6, 2013
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