By Nadia Prupis Common Dreams September 30, 2016 Snowden Helped Reduce Surveillance and Strengthen Resistance: Report Audit from the Department of Justice inspector general finds 2013 revelations attached ‘stigma’ to data collection requests Government surveillance of civilians has declined in large part due to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden‘s 2013 […]
By Daniel McAdams Ron Paul Institute September 21, 2016 What Lesson To Take From ‘Snowden’ Movie? The Oliver Stone film “Snowden” is predictably being nit-picked by the denizens of the establishment, nevertheless those with a better understanding of what it means to live in a free society are calling it an important opportunity for […]
By Josie Wales The Anti-Media September 19, 2016 FBI Director Says He Covers His Webcam — and That You Should Too FBI Director James Comey spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington earlier this week to discuss the importance of cybersecurity. During the discussion, Assistant Attorney General John Carlin […]
By Nadia Prupis Common Dreams September 13, 2016 Secret Stingray Manuals Reveal How Spying Tools Leave ‘No Place to Hide’ The Intercept publishes instruction manuals detailing how to build and use cell phone surveillance devices The technology manufacturing company Harris Corporation has fought to keep the public from knowing about how its […]
By Lauren McCauley Common Dreams September 6, 2016 The NSA Abroad: The UK Base that Makes US Targeted Killing Possible Newly revealed documents leaked by Edward Snowden and reported by the Intercept detail the inner workings of the NSA’s largest overseas base, Menwith Hill In a damning exposé published Monday, The Intercept […]
By Nadia Prupis Common Dreams August 25, 2016 Rights Advocates Slam Baltimore’s “Incomprehensible” Police Spying ‘The surveillance program itself is a privacy nightmare come to life and precisely what we have warned against for years,’ civil liberties group says Revelations that Baltimore police are spying on residents from the air—which the department […]
By Mary Beth Quirk Consumerist August 12, 2016 In a great example of the fact that not every USB charging station is as innocent as it looks, security researchers have identified a new, easy way for attackers to digitally eavesdrop on your smart phone when you think you’re charging it — and watch everything […]
By Deirdre Fulton Common Dreams August 3, 2016 Global Surveillance Industry Database Helps Track Big Brother Worldwide The US is a top exporter of invasive surveillance tools, according to Privacy International Offering a groundbreaking glimpse of the global surveillance industry—the tools it employs, the extent of its reach, and the accountability it largely evades—human […]
By Cathy Reisenwitz Foundation for Economic Education July 28, 2016 Afraid of Technology? Here’s the One Rule to Follow Remember last year when people freaked out about Facebook’s image recognition capabilities? Well hold onto your shoes, luddites, because now Facebook’s got drones. Yep, but the company isn’t dropping bombs or mixtapes. Facebook is […]
By Nadia Prupis Common Dreams July 13, 2016 In Privacy Win, Federal Judge Rejects ‘Stingray’ Evidence for First Time “Absent a search warrant, the government may not turn a citizen’s cell phone into a tracking device” For the first time, a federal judge has thrown out evidence obtained by police without a […]
By Kate Cox Consumerist July 13, 2016 “Click here if you have read and agree to the Terms of Service.” How many times in your life — heck, how many times just this month, or this year — have you hovered over that little ticky box without bothering to click the TOS link […]
By Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com July 9, 2016 The questions of our time have become – who owns you? Your data? What about your DNA? For customers who opted into signing a consent for when they signed up to have their DNA sequenced through the company 23andMe, it would appear that their DNA data […]
By Catherine Frompovich Activist Post July 8, 2016 If everyone, who is so enthralled with technology, would wake up to what really is going on in cyberspace utilizing computer networks to surveil and undermine your personal space and rights, especially what’s going on with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating platform, we could take back […]
By Michael Krieger Liberty Blitzkrieg June 22, 2016 Meet the Senators Who Earlier Today Voted to Destroy Your Civil Liberties Yesterday, I published a post warning about an amendment to be put up for a vote in the U.S. Senate that would severely harm the civil liberties of American citizens. I was very […]
By John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute June 22, 2016 “Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”—Adlai Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the United States If you’ve been caught up in the circus that is the presidential election, you’ve likely missed the latest […]
