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Archives: privacy
Can you stop House from selling out your online Privacy, as Senate Just Did?
By Ernesto Falcon | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - Majority Leader McCarthy Confirms House to Immediately Act on Behalf of the Cable and Telephone Industry Following the Senate Vote Last week,…
Top 8 Signs someone is a White Terrorist, e.g. plotting to Blow up Mosque
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - 1. If you appoint yourself to carry out surveillance of a mosque congregation who have never given any evidence of being violent, you…
AT&T Profits by Spying on You for Gov’t, Killing 4th Amendment
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - If companies are allowed to operate in this manner without repercussions, our democracy has no future.' Telecommunications giant AT&T is spying on…
Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know
By Clark D. Cunningham | (The Conversation) | - - Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public…
Citing NSA Spying, Euro Court of Justice Forbids Auto-Sharing of Personal Info
Danny O'Brien | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and…
Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights
By Aruna Dutt | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 2015 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in Nairobi at the end of a two-day visit Saturday,…
HUGE WIN FOR PRIVACY! Court Rules NSA Spying Is Illegal
John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks) | - "The second circuit court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection and storage of Americans phone records is ILLEGAL,…
NSA making all vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer
TheLipTV | - "Malware in hard drive firmware is the latest, and most sophisticated spying tool the NSA is suspected of using, with Kaspersky Labs of Russia suggesting that the "Equation Group"…
Can the Police Phone-Track you without a Warrant?
Hanni Fakhoury and Jennifer Lynch (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Once again, a federal court will decide whether police can track your movements over an extended period of time without a search warrant. Federal…
Snowden Docs.: UK Telecom Conspired to Turn over millions of our Emails to British Intelligence
Channel 4 News | --- "An unprecedented grab of personal data: this programme reveals that a communications firm not only handed over its own information to GCHQ, but also allowed access to…
Arabs without God
By Brian Whitaker, author of Arabs without God In the midst of sectarian turmoil in the Middle East, one section of Arab society rarely gets much attention: those who reject religion entirely.…
CIA Chief Shocking Admission: We spied on Senate staffers
By Jon Queally, Commondreams Yes, Admits CIA Chief, We Spied on Senate Panel Investigating Torture The findings of an internal investigation at the Central Intelligence Agency made available to the public on…
Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald’s Personality
By Barry Eisler via Freedom of the Press Foundation: One of the most fascinating aspects of Glenn Greenwald’s journalism is the way it provokes various people who think of themselves as journalists…
Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)
By Juan Cole NBC News's Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday night. But then Mr. Williams followed it up with a panel discussion of whether Snowden is a hero…
When Greenwald met Snowden: “Spark a … movement against the dangers of state surveillance”
(By Glenn Greenwald via Tomdispatch) [This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S.…
Top 5 Signs Cliven Bundy is Wrong about African-Americans
Cliven Bundy told the NYT, "They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better…
The FBI’s Facial Recognition Database Combines Lo-Res Photos With Zero Civil Liberties Considerations
The FBI's Facial Recognition Database Combines Lo-Res Photos With Zero Civil Liberties Considerations (via Techdirt) Another FOIA lawsuit brought against the government by the EFF has resulted in the release of previously…