Anil Dash's Top Stories

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  1. NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
    news.cnet.com ❘ Shared by Tim O'Reilly, Jimmy Wales and 14 others
    NSA director Keith Alexander says his agency's analysts, which until recently included Edward Snowden among their ranks, take protecting "civil liberties and privacy and the security of this nation to their heart every day." (Credit: Getty Images)...
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  2. Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure
    bigstory.ap.org ❘ Shared by John Battelle, Dave McClure and 10 others
    WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around the world, government spies and eavesdroppers...
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  3. GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
    guardian.co.uk ❘ Shared by Christopher Soghoian, Jay Rosen and 3 others
    Documents uncovered by the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, reveal surveillance of G20 delegates' emails and BlackBerrys. Photograph: Guardian Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their...
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  4. NSA targeted Dmitry Medvedev at London G20 summit
    guardian.co.uk ❘ Shared by Anthony De Rosa, Ben Smith and 1 other
    US spies intercepted communications of the then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, during a G20 summit in London. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP American spies based in the UK intercepted the top-secret communications of the then Russian...
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  5. LAX TSA officer shames my 15-year-old daughter about her clothes
    boingboing.net ❘ Shared by Mona Eltahawy, Steve Silberman and 1 other
    This morning, a TSA officer at LAX humiliated and shamed my 15-year-old daughter. She is traveling with a group of high school students on a college tour and we were not with her when he verbally abused her. Here's what happened, as Sarina described...
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