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My Life in Circles: Why Metadata Is Incredibly Intimate
Metadata, no matter what the detractors say, collected over time is an intimate repository of our lives.
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The Coming Cyber-Cold War: US Pioneering Online Attacks
Cyber warfare has established itself, and governments are spending billions in researching how best to use it.
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
Ask the NSA, as part of a freedom of information request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesnu2019t have the …
License Plate Scanners, Black Boxes Track Location of Millions of Motorists
Documents obtained by the ACLU reveal location records are being stored by law enforcement agencies across the nation without oversight.
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Obama’s Escalating War on Freedom of the Press
Norman Solomon: Efforts to quash press freedom are in sync with the unrelenting persecution of whistleblowers.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.
What the Empire Didn’t Hear: US Spying and Resistance in Latin America
In all of the data the US gathered, it missed one crucial fact: that Latin America is no longer Washington's backyard.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Your Local Police Department May Be Tracking Your Every Move, and More
A new report from the ACLU shows that automatic license plate readers are snapping photos of our cars.
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Telecom Companies Implicated in NSA Spying Unite to Lobby Congress on Digital Privacy
The telecom industry launches a lobbying group to advocate for privacy policies.
Privacy Coalition Sues NSA to Halt Dragnet Surveillance
A coalition of advocacy groups has filed suit against the NSA for collecting their call records.