Defeat of USA FREEDOM Act is a Victory for Freedom
Anthony Freda Art By Ron Paul It will not shock readers to hear that quite often legislation on Capitol Hill is not as advertised. When…
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Quality, Not Quantity (Unless You’re a Fusion Center, Spending Taxpayer Money)
Nadia Kayyali Electronic Frontier Foundation Who pays for government surveillance? Taxpayers. And we should all heed the age-old message: buyer beware. Fusion centers are an…
Report: DOJ spy planes scooping up Americans’ cell phone data
Paul Lawrance Activist Post Since 2007 the Justice Department has been scooping up Americans’ cell phone data via devices called “dirtboxes” that are deployed on…
Americans Want More Privacy from Companies and Government: Poll
Mark Jaycox Electronic Frontier Foundation Pew released a report today detailing the extensive privacy concerns of Americans. The report, which surveyed a nationally representative sample,…
Privacy Groups to Present Oral Argument in NSA Spying Case on Nov. 4
Court Should Rule That Mass Telephone Records Collection Is Unconstitutional in Klayman v. Obama Activist Post The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will appear before a…
Three Spooky Ways You’re Being Spied on This Halloween
Illustration: John Shakespeare/source Nadia Kayyali Electronic Frontier Foundation It’s that time of year when people don sinister masks, spray themselves with fake blood, and generally…
More Than 2 Million License Plates Scanned at Mall Of America in Past 90 Days
KSTP5 Police are running mass background checks on all visitors to the Mall of America using license plate scanners.
Peekaboo, I See You: Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes
Mark Jaycox Electronic Frontier Foundation The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over…
Harvard Law Professor Interviews Edward Snowden About Legality of Spy Programs
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Cops Need to Obey Facebook’s Rules
image source Nadia Kayyali and Dave Maass Electronic Frontier Foundation Facebook scolded the Drug Enforcement Administration this week after learning that a narcotics agent had…
Invasion of the Data Snatchers
ACLU New technologies are making it easier for private companies and the government to learn about everything we do – in our homes, in our…
Invisible Biometrics: Your Voice is Your New ID
Nicholas West Activist Post In a recent article, “In The Internet of Things YOU Will Be The Key,” I outlined the many ways that the…
Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters
TED Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see — and write about — the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the…
Twitter Opens Entire Database to MIT – How Will It Be Used?
image source Nicholas West Activist Post Predictive technology is exploding, in stealth, across the virtual landscape. The arrival of Big Data initiatives by government, as…