EPIC Files FOIA Suit For Documents Regarding Google/NSA Partnership

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Source: Electronic Privacy Information Center

EPIC Files Suit For Documents Regarding Google/NSA Partnership

Today, EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Security Agency in the United States District Court in the District of Columbia. The agency failed to respond to EPIC's FOIA request for documents about an "Information Assurance" partnership with Google. EPIC previously appealed to the agency to comply with its legal duty to produce the documents, but the agency failed to respond. EPIC is also seeking the Presidential Directive that grants the NSA authority to conduct electronic surveillance in the United States. For more information, see EPIC: Open Government.

Read more: http://epic.org/2010/09/epic-files-suit-for-documents.html

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1. Kick

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2. honored to Rec and kick!! Thanks for posting!! will pass along!! eom

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3. K&R

[BelgianMadCow]

4. I have been reading "Big Brother in Europe"

in dutch though. Awesome, scary book. Google is a big part of online big brother - and the book also points out the only browser that gets accolades from organisations such as EPIC is called Ixquick http://www.Ixquick.com , they don't log your searches or keep your IP. It's a meta-search engine, so uses other search engines, you can still decide to list the google results for example.

Much in the same way, I use BetterPrivacy as a Firefox addon - it deletes the so-called "supercookies" that get into your flashplayer (!) folder and that remain there forever, identifying you.

Adblock plus in turn (another addon) allows me to blacklist ads from a whole slew of domains at once, and NoScript gets rid of all unwanted javascript and thereby for example google analytics and adsense and the like if you so decide (who do things like putting unique-ID cookies on your pc that set a new cookie when you delete them)

:thumbsup: for EPIC, K&R