The New York City Police Department has developed a pattern-recognition tool called Patternizr to sort through…
Federal agencies go to extreme lengths to keep powerful phone spying gear secret—and new information shows just how the…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is out there fighting for civil liberties and privacy on the Internet and the…
A new computer program developed by a pro-Kremlin political center mines social network sites for chatter about…
CISPA is back. You might remember the bill as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—or perhaps as "the…
In the United States, the Fourth Amendment regulates citizens' right to privacy from the government. Unfortunately it…
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Facebook is rolling out two new relationship status options: "in a civil union" and "in a domestic partnership." Good…
With the threat of today's protests looming in Egypt, on Thursday Egyptian authorities cut the nation off the…
Citizens recording their public interactions with police sure seems like the kind of thing that would prevent…
Some of today's biggest legal debates (genetic discrimination, patents for human genes) might have seemed far-fetched…
Peter Watts, the critically-acclaimed Canadian author of Blindsight and other dystopian novels, entered a dystopia of…
Join scifi greats Cory Doctorow and Rudy Rucker, with io9 editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, in San…
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In a historic vote this afternoon, the Senate voted to amend the Foreign Intelligence Security Act (FISA) to expand the…
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Batman Bin Suparman here. I wanted to talk to you about Real ID. Apparently, the U.S. Department of…
Verizon and AT&T have both gone on record saying they do not record SMS communications. The privacy debate is one that,…
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