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"Of course, this transformation will be made at the cost of a gradual, balanced transfer of a part of each nation's powers to a world authority and to regional authorities, but this is necessary,...."
Sean Wilentz, George Packer and Michael Kinsley are a dismal advertisement for the current state of mainstream liberal thought in America. They have systematically misrepresented and misunderstood Edward Snowden and the NSA.
from the keeping-your-hands-clean dept
The "sneak and peek" warrant, police were adamant was needed to protect against terrorism. The numbers of "sneak and peek" warrants reveals out of a total of over 11,000 sneak and peek requests, only 51 were used for terrorism.
New documents obtained by the New York Times show that law enforcement agencies requested access to mail at least 50,000 times as part of ongoing mass surveillance programs.
Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection.
Agency requests rule change but civil liberties groups say 'extremely invasive' technique amounts to unconstitutional power grab.
In a result consistent with previous polling, a new poll has respondents claiming they're more concerned about Google seeing all their private data than the government.
The idea is that if you buy or sell something from Craigslist, you should meet up and hold the transaction at the police station, just in case the other party is planning any funny business.
Newly released documents from the British government reveal a lack of judicial oversight for how it sifts through communications data collected by the NSA and other foreign governments.
In 1968, Mr. Hoover authorized the F.B.I. to wiretap a left-wing journalist who wrote critical stories about Nazis in America, internal records show. Mr. Hoover declared the journalist, Charles Allen, a potential threat to national security.
In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail
Three weeks ago, McClatchy made worldwide headlines with a remarkable scoop: recent US missile strikes on Al Qaeda forces in Syria, the so-called Khorasan Group, explicitly targeted a French national who was a defector from his country's intelligen
A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a "government-related entity" that planted classified documents on her computer.
Fashion for the stealthy.
Apple has begun automatically collecting the locations of users and the queries they type when searching for files with the newest Mac operating system, a function that has provoked backlash for a company that portrays itself as a leader on privacy.
Maintaining your privacy online, like investing in stocks or looking good naked, has become one of those nagging desires that leaves Americans with a surplus of stress and a deficit of facts.
Schuchardt gets into more detail, and specifically challenges the legality of surveillance programs authorized by Executive Order 12333, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
"It's more mass surveillance," said an Irish privacy researcher. "The next thing you know, that will be given to border guards, and you'll need to speak into a microphone when you get back from vacation."
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency's massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny.
Tom Engelhardt interviews Laura Poitras, October 20, 2014
The Verge: Facebook has a message for the DEA: if you want to use our service, you have to use your real name.
On Friday, President Obama signed an executive order to speed the adoption of EMV-standard cards in the US that will require credit card companies to stop relying on the magnetic stripe cards and move toward embedded chips
"In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading or a political smear," he wrote. "The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned mone
I confess a weakness for documentaries and "docu-dramas" which are closely based on true stories. And there are three coming out, of special interest to me:
What's public for me is private for thee. At least that's what Monroe County, N.Y. believes when it comes to where you drive your car.
Kickstarter removed a fundraiser for a popular Tor-based router project on Friday afternoon. The Anonabox, which was aimed to be an "open source embedded networking device designed specifically to run Tor."
The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users anonymity and claims to be "the safest place on the internet", is tracking the location of its users, including some who have specifically asked not to be followed.
Surespot is a secure mobile messaging app that uses exceptional end-to-end encryption for every text, image and voice message returning your right to privacy.
Emmerson's study poses a direct challenge to the claims of both governments that their bulk surveillance programs, which the barrister finds endanger the privacy of "literally every internet user," are proportionate to the terrorist threat and
