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US moves to make wiretaps easier

Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday. Ref. Source 9

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Somehow this does not surprise me in the least. They are doing this in the name of security and wanting to make America safer but it is just making the government more powerful and the citizen less secure, their freedoms slowly disappearing.

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Obama alert system taps into smartphones

Plans have been unveiled for a US nationwide system that will deliver text-like emergency messages from President Barack Obama and key government agencies to mobile phone users. Ref. Source 7

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Senate Renews Controversial Law Which Allows Warrantless Wiretapping Of US Citizens:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, approved by the House of Representatives in September, passed the Senate with a 73-23 vote and broad bipartisan support, and now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. Ref. Source 6

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FBI surveillance tool is ruled unconstitutional:

A federal court in California has ruled that a surveillance tool widely used by the FBI to obtain information on Americans without court oversight is unconstitutional because the gag order that accompanies it violates the First Amendment. Ref. Source 9

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Secret Court Document Finds Spy Techniques Unconstitutional, Justice Department Fights To Keep It Hidden:

The Justice Department may soon be forced to reveal a classified document that details unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens. Ref. Source 3

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Two key senators are defending the NSA's phone surveillance, saying it has been going on for years and it has produced results.

Terrorists "Will come after us if they can, and the only thing that we have to deter this is good intelligence to understand that a plot has been hatched and to get there before they get to us," Said Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who chairs the Senate intelligence committee.

"It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years," Says Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, vice chairman of the committee. Ref. CNN

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The National Security Agency's data surveillance programs discussed in recent media reports "help us prevent terrorist attacks," President Barack Obama said Friday in San Jose, California. He added that "Modest encroachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration ... Without looking at content" Are worth the result.

"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Obama said in his first public remarks on the controversy. "What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls. They're not looking at people's names, and they're not looking at content, but by sifting through this so-called metadata, they may identify certain leads that" Might help authorities disrupt potential terrorist plans.

Obama said the programs are not secret in the respect that "Every member of Congress has been briefed" On the phone data program, and the relevant intelligence committees have been briefed on a ll the programs. Ref. CNN