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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government’s authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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American Voices: Government Internet Surveillance Rising
Posted by admin on November 14th, 2012
Nearly doubling the figure from three years ago, the world’s governments requested access to Google’s private data almost 21,000 times during the first half of 2012, with the United States making the most demands. Tweet This Post
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No Comments »Surveillance photo flushes out forgetful California lottery winner
Posted by admin on November 3rd, 2012
SAN BERNARDINO, California (Reuters) – The belatedly crowned winner of a $ 23 million California lottery jackpot says she had stuffed the lucky ticket in her car and left it there forgotten for months, until a surveillance camera photo of the ticket's purchase surfaced on the Internet. Only when she recognized her daughter in the [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: California, flushes, forgetful, Lottery, photo, surveillance, Winner No Comments »Surveillance photo flushes out forgetful California lottery winner
Posted by admin on November 3rd, 2012
SAN BERNARDINO, California (Reuters) – The belatedly crowned winner of a $ 23 million California lottery jackpot says she had stuffed the lucky ticket in her car and left it there forgotten for months, until a surveillance camera photo of the ticket’s purchase surfaced on the Internet. Only when she recognized her daughter in the [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: California, flushes, forgetful, Lottery, photo, surveillance, Winner No Comments »China surveillance ships enter waters near disputed islands
Posted by admin on September 24th, 2012
TOKYO (Reuters) – Two Chinese marine surveillance ships entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday, the Japanese Coast Guard said, a move bound to raise tension between Asia’s two largest economies. China’s Xinhua news agency confirmed that two civilian surveillance ships were undertaking a “rights [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: China, disputed, Enter, Islands, Near, ships, surveillance, Waters No Comments »Japan says its forces carrying out only routine surveillance
Posted by admin on September 20th, 2012
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s armed forces are not engaged in any unusual or extraordinary activities beyond routine surveillance, a defense ministry spokesman said on Thursday. “We are not doing anything beyond routine surveillance activities,” the spokesman said in response to a Reuters query. Currency markets moved following a media report suggesting that China’s military was [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Carrying, Forces, Japan, Only, Routine, says, surveillance No Comments »China surveillance ships enter Japan waters
Posted by admin on September 14th, 2012
TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) – Six Chinese surveillance ships entered waters near disputed islands claimed by Tokyo and Beijing on Friday, raising the stakes in a long-running territorial row between Asia’s two biggest economies. China’s foreign ministry said that the ships entered the disputed waters to carry out maritime surveillance and that for the first time China [...]
Open thread for night owls: Scope of cellphone surveillance still not known
Posted by admin on July 21st, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Cellphone, Known, night, Open, owls, scope, Still, surveillance, Thread No Comments »FDA surveillance operation draws criticism from lawmakers
Posted by admin on July 15th, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Food and Drug Administration’s secret monitoring of its staff raised hackles in Congress on Sunday after lawmakers learned their own offices were apparently targeted by the surveillance operation. Six current and former FDA scientists and doctors filed a lawsuit in January claiming the agency tried to repress warnings about potential corruption [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: criticism, Draws, From, lawmakers, Operation, surveillance No Comments »Drones at home raise fear of surveillance society
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2012
Thousands of drones patrolling U.S. skies? Tweet This Post
