Utah Tries to Curtail NSA; Human Rights Groups’ Spyware Detection Tool

(Before It's News)

Utah Tries Where Congress Fails to Keep NSA Within Constitution. A Utah state representative is fed up with waiting for Congress to stop NSA snooping and is pushing a bill to halt operations at its recently opened Bluffdale facility by cutting off water.

Human Rights Groups Launch Tool to Detect Spyware. Amnesty International released a free program on Wednesday that scans computers for surveillance software that is often used by governments to spy on journalists, human rights lawyers, political organizers, and other activists—technology that has been discovered to be in use in countries around the world.

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