NSA Celebrates Passage of USA ‘Freedom’ Act, While Skype Keeps Its Spying Eyes on You
Both privacy advocates and the NSA are celebrating the USA Freedom Act that passed the Senate on June 2. The act legalized and simplified the collecting of phone metadata for the NSA. Meanwhile Skype continues to collect voice, chat, video and other data, and deliver it to the Five Eyes international spy coalition. The passage of the USA Freedom Act — penned by General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA — was followed by general celebration over what is considered a small victory for privacy advocates, and the biggest surveillance reform since the 1970s. Civil liberty groups and privacy....
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On June 2, the USA Freedom Act that legalizes and simplifies the collecting of phone metadata for the NSA passed the Senate. Meanwhile Skype continues to collect voice, chat, video and other data, and deliver it to the Five Eyes international spy coalition. CoinTelegraph reviewed three of the most promising alternatives to Skype that guarantee end-to-end encryption and greater privacy for users: Tox.im, Bleep and Silent Circle. "Previously released documents from the Snowden archive describe enormous efforts by the NSA during the last decade to get access to voice-over-internet content....