Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A tenacious reporter who covers urban affairs and the D.C. Council received a troubling email from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: His voice was picked up after agents tapped the cell phones of now-disgraced Councilman Michael Brown, WUSA9 reports. “I’m not going to be surprised if I call someone at some point in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The discovery that feds were spying on the Associated Press has had a “chilling effect” on the news agency, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter said, the U.S. News reports. Reporter Martha Mendoza called the snooping “a massive and unprecedented intrusion” into the reporting of more than 20 reporters, the U.S. News wrote….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Companies that refuse to comply with wiretap orders would be penalized under FBI-backed legislation that is being drawn up by a government task force, RT reports. That means companies like Google and Facebook would be fined tens of thousands of dollars a day for refusing to cooperate. “We don’t have the ability…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Florida man who hacked into the email accounts of celebrities for nude photos and private information was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal judge, Reuters reports. Christopher Chaney, 36, a former office clerk, said he hacked into the accounts because of an addiction to spying on more than…
