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Minnesota librarians push to curb NSA snooping
“With mass collection of private data, whether library records or cellphone activity, the decision on privacy has been taken away from the individual. The potential harm comes from not knowing what has been collected or how it will be used.” Great quote from Kirsten Clark, our own Regional FDLP Librarian at the University of Minnesota. […]
Good Roundup of NSA Activity and Lack of Effectiveness
In a post titled How America’s Global Surveillance Empire made it a Helpless Giant at Informed Comment, Tom Engelhardt provides an excellent summary of NSA activities brought to light by Edward Snowden:
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claims vs reality by about NSA surveillance by @ProPublica
ProPublica has put together a set of 6 videos + analysis debunking claims about NSA surveillance -- much of which has been leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden and reported by Glenn Greenwald in the UK Guardian newspaper -- by Obama administration officials like Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Director of NSA General Keith Alexander, and President Obama himself.
State Dept Countermeasures Directorate launches public exhibition on surveillance technology
US Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security Countermeasures Directorate has recently launched a new public exhibition on cold-war era eavesdropping gadgets entitled, "Listening In: Electronic Eavesdropping in the Cold War Era." Scientific American posted a slide show ("Spying on the spies") of the exhibition and much of the text written about the devices, from old-school keyloggers to phone tap detectors. The permanent exhibit is located in the lobby of a State Department building in Rosslyn, Va. Perhaps one of our DC readers can help us out and confirm the location. According to the State Department's list of field offices, there are 2 buildings in Rosslyn within a few blocks of each other: 1400 Wilson Boulevard and 1801 North Lynn Street.
MASON A3B RECEIVER: U.S. State Department engineers working for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security needed a receiver in order to find devices subversively transmitting signals to the enemy. The best kind of receiver was one that could be moved from room to room without looking like a radio, and the Mason A3 more than fit the bill.Continue reading
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