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Nigeria Correctional Service Blames Open Treasury Portal For Incomplete Transaction Data NSA

Nigeria Correctional Service Blames Open Treasury Portal For Incomplete Transaction Data

Austin Njoku, the spokesperson for the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), has blamed Open Treasury Portal for the omission of payment details in the transactions recently conducted by the organisation.Njoku made the assertion in response to an earlier story by SaharaReporters which showed that the prison service was one of the…
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September 3, 2020
Appeals court finds NSA’s mass metadata collection was unlawful NSA

Appeals court finds NSA’s mass metadata collection was unlawful

Edward Snowden leaked information about the NSA's mass surveillance activities, back in 2013. Screenshot by Terry Collins/CNET A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the US National Security Agency's bulk collection of citizens' phone records was against the law. The program, now ended, collected records from phone carriers about who called…
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September 2, 2020
Ninth Circuit rules NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ call records was illegal NSA

Ninth Circuit rules NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ call records was illegal

The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans' phone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.However, the unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the role the so-called telephone metadata program played in a criminal terror-fundraising…
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September 2, 2020
Why San Francisco Is In Trouble – 19,000 Highly Compensated City Employees Earned $150,000+ In Pay & Perks NSA

Why San Francisco Is In Trouble – 19,000 Highly Compensated City Employees Earned $150,000+ In Pay & Perks

Powerful San Francisco unions represent 39,000 city workers and $5 billion in payroll costs. OpenTheBooks.com The San Francisco Bay Area is home to wonders of the modern world like the Golden Gate Bridge and Silicon Valley — as well as powerful progressive politicians like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin…
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September 1, 2020
Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly says telling the president that things he wants to do were illegal was like ‘French kissing a chainsaw’ NSA

Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly says telling the president that things he wants to do were illegal was like ‘French kissing a chainsaw’

The former White House chief of staff John Kelly had a vivid simile for the experience of refusing President Donald Trump's requests, according to an upcoming book.The book, "Donald Trump v. The United States," said that Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, has said that having to say no to…
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August 31, 2020
Don’t charge UPI transactions, refund money collected since Jan 1: Finance Min to banks NSA

Don’t charge UPI transactions, refund money collected since Jan 1: Finance Min to banks

While asking banks to refund charges collected since January 1, 2020, the Ministry of Finance has further asked them not to charge transactions conducted through services such as RuPay or UPI. (Picture Courtesy: Twitter @UPI_NPCI)In good news for those dependent on online payments, the Union Finance Ministry on Sunday asked…
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August 30, 2020
US accuses Russian jets of “unsafe” intercept NSA

US accuses Russian jets of “unsafe” intercept

for-phone-onlyfor-tablet-portrait-upfor-tablet-landscape-upfor-desktop-upfor-wide-desktop-up World Posted The United States has accused two Russian fighter jets of making an "unsafe and unprofessional" intercept of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flying over the Black Sea on Friday. World US accuses Russian jets of "unsafe" intercept India sets record for daily coronavirus cases Thousands protest…
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August 30, 2020