Privacy
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Yahoo Allegedly Scanned Incoming Emails on Behalf of NSA, FBI
This all happened last year, even after Snowden’s revelations and government reforms.
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Think Government Surveillance Is No Big Deal? Talk to These Victims of Police Stalking.
Officials likely abuse access to government info databases on a daily basis.
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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart Creating National Database of Sex Buyers
"We are well on our way to developing...new ways to change their behavior."
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Is Cyber Privacy and Security a Human Right? Should It Be?
Group lists safeguards governments should follow before hacking citizens.
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Big Corporations Band Together to Fight the Government’s Secrecy in Collecting Citizen Data
The Justice Dept. doesn’t think we need to know when they’re looking at info about us.
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FBI’s Comey Proposes an ‘Adult Conversation’ About Giving the FBI Whatever They Want
Two words from a government official to dismiss decades of expertise on encryption.
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'Pre-Search' Is Coming to U.S. Policing
Does the Fourth Amendment protect against unreasonable searches before the fact?
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NSA 'Cyber Weapons' Leak Shows How Agency Prizes Online Surveillance Over Online Security
The NSA opportunistically hoards and deploys powerful bugs that make everyone less secure online.
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Hillary Clinton’s Staff Turned to Snowden's Wisdom for Cybersecurity Advice
Would she allow the rest of us to be equally protected?
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Government-Sponsored Hacking of Activists Should Give Authorities Pause, Not Inspiration
How an oppressive Middle Eastern country led to everybody’s iPhones getting a security update.
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Hulk Hogan's Gawker Smackdown Hurts Press Freedom
Peter Thiel's funding of speech-chilling privacy litigation is totally misguided, people.
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Univision Bites Head Off Gawker but Keeps Its Appendages
Principal site to be shuttered. Ancillary pages to continue.
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Peter Thiel's Free-Floating Right to Privacy Is Inconsistent With Freedom of Speech
The Paypal billionaire, a self-described libertarian, thinks the threat of financial ruin will improve journalism.
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Bot-Run Company of the Future Gets Hacked
A funny thing happened on the way to a post-capitalist, crypto-anarchist utopia.
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DNC Hacks and Leaky Government Make Encryption Restrictions Look More Foolish Than Ever
FBI investigations reveal that encryption is increasingly important, and government officials can’t be trusted with a backdoor.
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California’s Gang Database Is a Privacy-Violating Mess, State Audit Declares
No oversight, no notification, and sometimes no supporting evidence.
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San Diego Police Used Stingray to Solve Common Crimes, Failed to Mention Use to Judges
The cellphone tracking instrument has had questionable success.
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GOP Platform Wants It Both Ways on Encryption
The infamous concept of ‘balance’ rears its head.
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U.K. Pols Still Devoted to Destroying Citizens’ Encryption, Privacy, and Security
Government would be able to demand tech companies provide data access.
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The Fourth Amendment Gets Its Own House Caucus to Demand Its Respect
Coalition of 25 bipartisan lawmakers organizes against unwarranted surveillance and data collection.