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The "USA Freedom Act"--which its proponents were heralding as "NSA reform" despite its suffocatingly narrow scope--died in the august...
Director Concedes Not 'High Confidence' on Which Are ISIS
For months, a powerful U.S. senator has been pushing for details of a murky deal under which a Russian manufacturer supplies the rocket engines used to launch America's spy satellites into space.
Sweeney Gillette, a very successful cattle trader from Ontario, Oregon, barely finished a pleasant chat with his ex-wife when his phone rang. Gillette's attorney had just been contacted by a Malheur County deputy DA who accused
Intelligence agency can keep collecting bulk phone data about Americans, for now.
How the Doomsday Project Led to Warrantless Surveillance and Detention after 9/11.
They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Wester
In The News | Cold Grips the U.S., NATO/Russia Showdown, H5N8 & USA Freedom Act Fails November 19, 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a remarkable letter in which the Department of Justice admits its lawyer misled a panel of judges during oral arguments last month over the legality of National Security Letters, or NSLs.
A bill to rein in the spying authority of the National Security Agency (NSA) has been blocked by the US Senate. Opponents said the legislation would have undermined Washington's counterterrorism efforts.
In the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, the rush was on to rein in – or appear to rein in – the Surveillance State.
Devices that gather data from millions of mobile phones are being flown over the US by the government, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Devices that gather data from millions of mobile phones are being flown over the US by the government, according to the Wall Street Journal.
AT&T mothballs creepy customer web stalking system (until everyone's forgotten about it)
Facebook's recent push to become more privacy-conscious only goes so far, according to recent reports.
The US Marshals Service is using small, fixed-wing Cessnas equipped with so-called "dirtboxes"—receivers that act like cellphone towers—to gather data from citizens' phones below. The purpose of such collection is to target and spy on crimina
A Shadow Form of National ID
"US intelligence funding of academic research has over 3,000 National Security Agency and over 100 Defense Intelligence Agency funded papers and draws attention to recent unreported revelations of CIA funding for torture research."
Verizon was caught tampering with its customer's web requests to inject a tracking super-cookie. Another network-tampering threat to user safety has come to light from other providers: email encryption downgrade attacks.
This past week Brazil announced that it will be building a 3,500-mile fiber-optic cable to Portugal in order to avoid the grip of the NSA.
This approach can only work if the user's computer trusts the certificate's issuing authority, in this case the China Internet Network Information Center, and that it's curious that browsers from the West do so quite so readily:
The online drug-dealing bonanza continued unabated hours after US and European authorities seized Silk Road 2.0 and at least 2 other digital black marketplaces. A 3rd incarnation of the trailblazing Silk Road is welcoming new users
Tor Project director Andrew Lewman went over the possible ways that over 400 hidden services on dozens of servers were located by law enforcement during Operation Onymous. "We don't know."
Law enforcement officials nationwide now have the ability to search multiple sensitive databases, including spy agency intranets and homeland security suspicious activity reporting – with a single login.
The most shocking aspect of the crackdown against financial and electronic privacy is the lengths that Congress, the Treasury Department, the NSA, and now the Postal Service have gone to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.
Government requests for Facebook user data shot up nearly a quarter worldwide in the first six months of 2014 over the second half of last year, a biannual report from the company reveals. Over 40 percent of those requests originated in the United St
The Pentagon has scaled back its plan to assemble an overseas spy service that could have rivaled the CIA in size, backing away from a project that faced opposition from lawmakers who questioned its purpose and cost, current and former U.S. officials
Samsung 'Smart TV' Records "Personal" Conversations & Sends Them to Third Parties
NY Democrats Sending Menacing Letters To Registered Dems: "We Will Be Reviewing Voting Records" To See If You Voted…
Control over information is far more important than most people know. It always has been, but in an information-rich environment like our Internet age, the power of information has skyrocketed. Unfortunately, it has taken some time for people to unde
