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When it came out that the IRS was scrutinizing potentially ?right- and left-wing tax exempt groups in 2013?, eyes were probably rolling at the FBI. Spying on American political groups has been their thing since forever--and if you need proof, th
Germany's intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has been helping the NSA spy on European politicians and companies for years, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel.
GOP Establishment Queen Mitch McConnell Introduces Patriot Act Reauthorization with Zero NSA Reforms
Ever written out a status update or comment but decided against posting it? One techie has discovered Facebook collects this content, despite the company's claims to the contrary
If the House Judiciary Committee keeps to its current schedule, on Thursday it will meet to consider the third version of the USA Freedom Act in the last two years.
Does the FBI manifest fidelity, bravery and integrity, or does it cut constitutional corners in order to incriminate?
A debate, going on in the quasi-private and well-catered halls of government-corporate collusion, has reached the post-smoldering stage. It's now a virtual forest fire in full public view.
A debate, going on in the quasi-private and well-catered halls of government-corporate collusion, has reached the post-smoldering stage. It's now a virtual forest fire in full public view.
June 1, 2015 is a very important day for American civil liberties and the Constitution.
"Data-collecting" LED streetlights part of General Electric's "Intelligent City Initiative"
Debate reignites on Capitol Hill with Patriot Act section set to expire Agency representatives secretly meet with members of Congress
Debate reignites on Capitol Hill with Patriot Act section set to expire Agency representatives secretly meet with members of Congress
If there was ever any doubt in your mind about the shared DNA between the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, consider the chart above.
The impending USA Freedom Act seeks to stop NSA phone record collection, leaving Section 215 intact, which activists say will only prolong mass surveillance
Last night I was reading a book entitled The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs by David Unger.
How government justification for mass surveillance during the war on drugs turned into rationalization for spying on citizens in the war on terror
How do you make mass surveillance relevant to the average person? Well, you could make the issue all about dick pics, like John Oliver did last week.
Smart meters are now being used by authorities to crack down on "water wasters" in the state of California, but this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as what they can be used for.
The NSA isn't the only three-letter agency that's been quietly collecting Americans' data on a mind-boggling scale.
Greetings from Dublin, where rain splashes the lenses of countless CCTV cameras looking down below a gloomy March sky.
Trying to get a handle on hundreds of sensitive, closely held surveillance programs, a Senate committee is compiling a secret encyclopedia of American intelligence collection.
The security audit of the TrueCrypt code has been completed (see here for the first phase of the audit), and the results are good. Some issues were found, but nothing major. Nothing that would make me not use the program,
Privacy as we once knew it is dead.
John W. Whitehead is a constitutional attorney. As head of the Rutherford Institute he is actively involved in defending our civil liberties.
A new report claims that Facebook secretly installs tracking cookies on users' computers, allowing them to follow users around the internet even after they've left the website, deleted their account and requested to be no longer followed.
It should be obvious given the recent hacks against essential infrastructure that America faces a major cyber security threat from foreign governments and rogue organizations.
DO YOU KNOW what do your phone's apps do when you're not using them?
In the US, certain types of warrants can come with gag orders preventing the recipient from disclosing the existence of warrant to anyone else. A warrant canary is basically a legal hack of that prohibition.
Since November 11, 2011, with the introduction of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, American spy agencies have been pushing laws to encourage corporations to share more customer information.
Even with recent revelations from the likes of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, the American public hasn't quite yet grasped the reality of the grand Stasi surveillance state we find ourselves in.
