Tag - nsa

 
 

NSA

COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2013
The desperate search for online privacy is over
Privacy in the traditional sense is most certainly dead. But the killer isn't the NSA. It's the Internet itself — or, more to the point, our entire reliance on it
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 5, 2013
After Snowden revelations, China worries about cyberdefense
China has been seen as the aggressor in cyberattacks, but many worry its own defenses are woeful.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 3, 2013
Nukes, terrorists, intel gaps: U.S. 'black budget' shows extent of distrust toward Pakistan
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan, which appears at the top of charts listing critical U.S. intelligence gaps.
WORLD
Aug 22, 2013
NSA email collection violated law: court
For several years, the National Security Agency unlawfully gathered tens of thousands of emails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-revised collection method, according to a 2011 secret court opinion.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2013
Manning and Snowden made secrecy impossible
To whom do U.S. Army privates and intelligence contractors owe their loyalty? To country? To the national security apparatus? Or to the people the apparatus protects
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2013
Why U.S. government is afraid of itself
The U.S. war on leaks has degenerated to a government deliberately destroying its property to keep its staffers from catching sight of publicly available information.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2013
Putin taken to task on soured U.S. relations
Vladimir Putin's Russia has slid back toward the suspicions and mistrust of the Cold War contest with the United States, U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday, adding that it is appropriate to "reassess" a relationship that has been damaged most recently by the case of National Security Agency leaker...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 1, 2013
'Help us defend the country:' NSA chief
It doesn't get much stranger than this, even in Vegas.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2013
Risks of limiting NSA's collection of phone data
There's a risk that Congress or the White House will impose constraints on the NSA that would reduce America's ability to protect itself against the next 9/11.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2013
Idaho mom sues Obama over surveillance program
Anna Smith is a mother of two who lives in rural Idaho, works the night shift as a nurse and goes to the gym a lot. She rarely follows the news and knows little about the debate over government surveillance and privacy that has rocked Washington in recent weeks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2013
Breakneck NSA growth fueled by insatiable demand for its product
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a larger workforce and more powerful computers. Already bigger than the Pentagon in square meters, the NSA's footprint will grow by an additional...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2013
DuckDuckGo chief spills on search engine wars
AltaVista, one of the leading search engines of the 1990s, has died. It was 18 years old. It had languished for years before its owner, Yahoo, finally pulled the plug.
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 18, 2013
Germans direct NSA ire at Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel grew up in a society where the government kept a Big Brother eye on its citizens. Now, critics say, she has assented to similar practices — this time coming from the U.S., not East Germany's fearsome secret police.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2013
Of spies and whistleblowers
Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has been trapped in the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow for the past two weeks, while the United States government strives mightily to get him back in its clutches. Recently it even arranged for the plane flying...
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2013
Declassify Yahoo data decision: FISA court
The secret surveillance court that approved the U.S. government's broad collection of millions of Americans' telephone and email records called Monday for the White House to declassify and release as much as it can of one of the court's early legal decisions sanctioning that collection.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 15, 2013
NSA chief on quest to 'collect it all'
In late 2005, as Iraqi roadside bombings were nearing an all-time peak, the National Security Agency's newly appointed chief began pitching a radical plan for halting the attacks that then were killing or wounding a dozen Americans a day.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 12, 2013
America's dirty war at home
Not only have the counterinsurgency wars of the past decade failed, but their methods and hardware have ended up being used against Americans and Britons at home.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 9, 2013
Leaks play a critical role in health of democracies
How can a democracy determine whether there should be government surveillance of the kind that the NSA is conducting if it has no idea that such programs exist
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 7, 2013
Strict rules help U.S. access data traffic on undersea cables
The U.S. government had a problem: Spying in the digital age required access to the fiber-optic cables traversing the world's oceans, carrying torrents of data at the speed of light. And one of the biggest operators of those cables was being sold to an Asian firm, which might complicate American surveillance...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2013
Britain to Google: Fix privacy policy or face legal action
Google is facing increased pressure over its privacy policies, as British regulators ordered the tech giant Friday to give users more insight into how the information it collects on them is used.

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?