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The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated thousands of people’s civil liberties by…
Sep 3
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The National Security Agency’s program to hoover up details on billions of domestic phone calls and text messages in…
Nov 19
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The Indiana Supreme Court seemed dubious that a suspected Warrick County drug dealer who removed a hidden police…
Nov 13
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A federal court in Boston ruled on Tuesday that suspicionless searches of electronics at U.S. border crossings are un…
Oct 16
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Berkeley, California became the fourth U.S. city to pass a ban on all government use of facial recognition…
Sep 7 2019
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The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up the government’s existing program of demanding people entering…
Aug 11 2019
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Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor)…
Jul 22 2019
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Amid mounting unrest and a night of violence in Hong Kong, Apple is among the retailers that have chosen to shut…
Jun 30 2019
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Facebook on Sunday issued the first major update of 2019 on the progress of its ongoing civil rights audit. The…
Mar 10 2019
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The New York City Police Department has developed a pattern-recognition tool called Patternizr to sort through…
Mar 17 2016
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Federal agencies go to extreme lengths to keep powerful phone spying gear secret—and new information shows just how…
Jan 5 2016
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is out there fighting for civil liberties and privacy on the Internet and the…
May 20 2015
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A new computer program developed by a pro-Kremlin political center mines social network sites for chatter about…
Jan 10 2015
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CISPA is back. You might remember the bill as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—or perhaps as "the…
Dec 31 2013
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In the United States, the Fourth Amendment regulates citizens' right to privacy from the government. Unfortunately…
Oct 15 2013
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Last weekend at New York Comic-Con, a lot of attendees found themselves tweeting ecstatically about the convention —…
Aug 2 2011
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The more digital video spreads, the more misinformed police fear it—as evidenced by this cop's draconian response…
Feb 17 2011
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Facebook is rolling out two new relationship status options: "in a civil union" and "in a domestic partnership."…
Jan 29 2011
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With the threat of today's protests looming in Egypt, on Thursday Egyptian authorities cut the nation off the…
Jan 24 2011
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Citizens recording their public interactions with police sure seems like the kind of thing that would prevent…