Wikimedia Sues NSA; CIA Targeted Apple

(Before It's News)

Wikimedia vs. NSA: Major Lawsuit Challenges Government Surveillance of US Citizens . The complaint also argues that what is called “upstream surveillance”—mass surveillance on all communications that pass through certain “backbone” structures of the network—exceeds the authority granted by Congress under the FISA Amendments Act.

iSpy: How the CIA Targeted Apple . The new reporting also makes clear that private defense contractors are playing an outsized role in providing research and other assistance to government agencies in developing and executing these clandestine programs.

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