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…
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The 7 Privacy Tools Essential to Making Snowden Documentary CITIZENFOUR
Parker Higgins Electronic Frontier Foundation What needs to be in your tool belt if you plan to report on a massively funded and ultra-secret organization…
15 Signs That We Live During A Time Of Rampant Government Paranoia
Michael Snyder Activist Post How does it feel to live under a government that is getting even more paranoid with each passing day? Yes, we…
Toledo Residents Can Now Purchase Neighborhood SkyCop Cameras
Image; Toledo News Now Amanda Warren Activist Post Toledo, Ohio residents and businesses can now pay into a police fund to have their very own…
The Troubling Arguments from the Gov’t in Smith v. Obama NSA Spying Case
Nadia Kayyali Electronic Frontier Foundation We’ve filed our reply brief in the appeal of Smith v. Obama, our case challenging the NSA’s mass telephone records…
Civil Liberties Groups Appeal Ruling Over Automatic License Plate Reader Data
Dave Maass Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California are taking the fight over automatic license plate reader…
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…
Get Ready for BioSurveillance of Your Preschooler’s Health
Argus biosurveillance system – CDC By Joe Wright University of Michigan research shows web-based system could help improve detection and response to spread of illnesses….
EFF Launches 2 New Sites Dedicated to Protection From Mass Surveillance
Sites highlight how opponents of mass surveillance around the world lead by example, featuring counter-surveillance success stories. Electronic Frontier Foundation Activist Post The Electronic Frontier…
Stop the Spies: Australians Rise Up Against Mandatory Data Retention
Jeremy Malcolm Electronic Frontier Foundation It is a tried-and-tested technique: fomenting a culture of fear of ceaseless war or terrorism, in order to justify arbitrary…
“Tracking Ebola contacts”: call in the Surveillance State
Jon Rappoport Activist Post Now that the US has its own “Ebola case number 1” in isolation at a Dallas hospital (see also this), it can swing…
War Matrix: New System Enables Drones and Robots to Work Together
image source Nicholas West Activist Post The U.S. military continues to seek ways to integrate combat systems into one seamless matrix of full spectrum dominance….
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…
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…