Jul 15 Watch How an unlikely group changed the face of the FBI, retold in ‘The Burglary’ By PBS News Hour In “The Burglary,” author Betty Medsger tells the story of a group of burglars in 1971 who stole files from a small FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania -- a theft that provided evidence of wide scale surveillance of U.S. citizens. Continue watching
Jun 06 CIA posts witty first tweet By News Desk The Central Intelligence Agency made its debut on Twitter today. Although the @CIA handle was created Feb. 24, the intelligence agency waited until today to tweet for the first time. Already the handle has garnered more than 110,000 followers as… Continue reading
May 19 Watch U.S. charges Chinese officials with cyberspying on businesses By PBS News Hour Five Chinese military officials were indicted by the U.S. for stealing trade secrets by hacking six American firms in the nuclear, metals and solar products industries. Gwen Ifill talks to Laura Galante of FireEye and former State Department official Susan… Continue watching
May 19 Cisco CEO asks Obama to curb NSA surveillance as a matter of ‘trust’ By Justin Scuiletti National Security Agency surveillance is undermining U.S. technology sales, claims the CEO of networking giant Cisco. John Chambers, in a letter dated May 15, wrote to President Barack Obama that the United States benefited economically because of the confidence of… Continue reading
May 14 Pentagon: U.S. military drones aid search for kidnapped Nigerian girls By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The Pentagon said Wednesday that they have deployed at least one Global Hawk UAV to search for kidnapped girls in Nigeria. Continue reading
May 13 Watch Former NSA director: Having surveillance tools revealed puts U.S. in greater harm By PBS News Hour Revelations about the surveillance programs operated by the NSA have made Americans wonder how much of their lives is being monitored by the government. Judy Woodruff sits down with retired Gen. Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency,… Continue watching
Apr 26 White House says big data could be used to discriminate against Americans By Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press A White House review of how the government and private sector use large sets of data has found that such information could be used to discriminate against Americans on issues such as housing and employment even as it makes their… Continue reading
Apr 25 Watch With power of facial recognition and high-tech surveillance, where to draw the line between safety and spying? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 12 Wide-area surveillance technology triggers privacy concerns By Hari Sreenivasan A report from Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED takes a look at wide-area surveillance technology, described as "Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about… Continue reading