How the Government Keeps Its Phone Spying Gear a Secret
Federal agencies go to extreme lengths to keep powerful phone spying gear secret—and new information shows just how the…
Help the EFF Save the Future, by Reading Some Brand New Science Fiction!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is out there fighting for civil liberties and privacy on the Internet and the…
Russian App Trawls Social Media To Predict and Prevent "Mass Disorder"
A new computer program developed by a pro-Kremlin political center mines social network sites for chatter about…
CISPA: The Awful Anti-Privacy Law That Won't Prevent Another Sony Hack
CISPA is back. You might remember the bill as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—or perhaps as "the…
The most hopeful prediction yet for liberty in 2014
In the United States, the Fourth Amendment regulates citizens' right to privacy from the government. Unfortunately it…
An Open Letter to New York Comic-Con: Protect Our Secret Identities!
Last weekend at New York Comic-Con, a lot of attendees found themselves tweeting ecstatically about the convention —…
Berserk Cop Arrests Photographer for Standing on Sidewalk
The more digital video spreads, the more misinformed police fear it—as evidenced by this cop's draconian response to…
Facebook Adds "Civil Union" and "Domestic Partnership" Relationship Status Options
Facebook is rolling out two new relationship status options: "in a civil union" and "in a domestic partnership." Good…
Could a U.S. government crackdown take America off the internet?
With the threat of today's protests looming in Egypt, on Thursday Egyptian authorities cut the nation off the…
Recording a Police Officer Could Get You 15 Years in Jail
Citizens recording their public interactions with police sure seems like the kind of thing that would prevent…
The ACLU is studying science fiction to find the next threats to your liberty
Some of today's biggest legal debates (genetic discrimination, patents for human genes) might have seemed far-fetched…
SF Writer Peter Watts Arrested, Beaten At US-Canadian Border
Peter Watts, the critically-acclaimed Canadian author of Blindsight and other dystopian novels, entered a dystopia of…
Cory Doctorow Headlines Geek Reading to Support EFF This Monday in San Francisco
Join scifi greats Cory Doctorow and Rudy Rucker, with io9 editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, in San…
Love for Our Futuristic Freedom Fighting Homies at EFF
Yeah, I'm a civil liberties futurist junkie. That's right - I want to make the future a place where you've got a right…
Senate High-Fives Phone Companies for Spying on Americans
In a historic vote this afternoon, the Senate voted to amend the Foreign Intelligence Security Act (FISA) to expand the…
Superhero Presents Strong Case for ID Cards as States Get Real ID Extension
Hello guys!
Batman Bin Suparman here. I wanted to talk to you about Real ID. Apparently, the U.S. Department of…
Verizon, AT&T Respect Your SMS Privacy
Verizon and AT&T have both gone on record saying they do not record SMS communications. The privacy debate is one that,…