NSA and privacy matters

Some of these are older, but it never hurts to remind people.
This report from August lists some of the then-current NSA issues. Included: the court that oversees surveillance has to depend on the information the NSA gives it, and the NSA has repeatedly broken the fairly loose laws binding it, multiple times. As in 2,000-plus times in one year, including some actions violating a court order. And it lies about what it’s done, of course. And about how many terror plots NSA surveillance has foiled.
•The NSA works on encryption standards and encryption products to make them easy to violate. More here.
•New York uses electronic toll passes to track drivers. Though apparently just as a traffic control method (and without telling the drivers)
•Glenn Greenwald looks at international NSA coverage. Here we learn Brazil would like the Internet out from under US influence.
•An NSA official avoids a question about whether the NSA has ever tracked Americans through cellphones.
•I hadn’t heard about Tor, a technology for protecting online anonymity. The NSA has and they want to crack it.