9 Epic Failures of Regulating Cryptography
image source Cindy Cohn Electronic Frontier Foundation Recently Apple has announced that it is providing basic encryption on mobile devices that they cannot bypass, even…
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Counter-Surveillance Success Stories to Inspire Digital Rights Advocates
image source Kimberly Carlson Electronic Frontier Foundation Concerned European Internet users will descend upon Brussels on September 26 to participate in Freedom Not Fear 2014—a…
How to Start a Student Group To Protect Your Digital Privacy
April Glaser Electronic Frontier Foundation Watch for it. This year student protest and resistance to mass surveillance might be bursting at the seams. The Internet,…
New Video Exposes Canadian Spy Agency’s Unchecked Surveillance Program
OpenMedia.ca Katitza Rodriguez Electronic Frontier Foundation The Canadian government’s surveillance of innocent Canadians is secretive, expensive, and out-of-control—that’s the message of a new video launched…
Nationwide Biometric Database Goes Live
image source – FBI.gov Nicholas West Activist Post Despite the FBI already having been sued by privacy groups amid plans for a nationwide biometric database,…
Edward Snowden spills the disturbing details of digital spying technology
YAYNews Edward Snowden talks about online surveillance on Kim Dotcom’s Moment of Truth event after writing an editorial exposing New Zealand mass surveillance. Julian Assange…
How Wearable Smart Tech Will Control Your Life
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton Activist Post Privacy? What’s that? IF you take your cues from propaganda outlets like TIME, wearable technology is what’s next…
Australia, ‘better slave than dead’
Pine Gap, Australia Jon Rappoport Activist Post Remember the name “Pine Gap.” It lies at the heart of this story. I’ve always thought Australians were…
Smart Homes Reveal User Behavior, Prone to Hacks: Study
By Kevin Samson Our Internet-driven world filled with interconnected smart gadgets and computing applications is making us vulnerable to potentially life-changing hacks and tracking. Not…
Missouri Voters to Consider State Privacy Amendment With National Implications
Activist Post In a referendum that could ultimately have national implications, Missouri voters will go to the polls Aug. 5 with the opportunity to add…
Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
Peter Eckersley, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, and Ranga Krishnan EFF EFF is releasing an experimental hacker alpha release of wireless router software specifically designed to support secure,…
Police Play NSA: Warrantless Data Collection the New Normal?
ReasonTV Sacramento sheriff’s deputies have been playing NSA. They tool around town with suitcase-sized StingRay surveillance devices in their squad cars, scooping up cellphone data…
Report: NSA compiling baby photos, medical records and resumes of citizens
KDVR Heaps of baby photos, fitness selfies, medical records and resumes are among thousands of private communications scooped up and stored by NSA spy programs.That’s…
Dear NSA, Privacy is a Fundamental Right, Not Reasonable Suspicion
Eva Galperin, Nadia Kayyali and Kurt Opsahl Electronic Frontier Foundation Learning about Linux is not a crime—but don’t tell the NSA that. A story published…