Tags: Surveillance

The Wall Street Journal notes a possibly inappropriately close relationship between the woman whose complaints of harassing emails began the investigation that led to Petraeus' career-ending affair and the FBI agent doing the investigating.

That would be a felony in Illinois

Filed a patent that would use cameras to detect whether user paid for content being viewed, be it on a TV or a smartphone

Moving forward

You have to wonder if John Galt his own self has taken the helm at the Telecommunications Industry Association.

Good luck avoiding these

It's why they need more power, of course

Just what do the feds plan to force companies to do for them?

It's slow progress, but a federal judge agrees with the Electronic Frontier Foundation that federal agencies, including the FBI, are dragging their feet on releasing documents that would reveal the extent to which private companies will be forced to tailor their technology to make it easier for the government to spy on the Internet.

Someone to watch over you

Who is using them? To watch what?

It's different when the guy you like does it

“Extraordinarily wide-reaching power,” says Justice Kennedy

And if you don't like it, they already know

All this over a friggin' copyright case

Very skeptical of government arguments

What is this "Fourth Amendment" of which you speak?

Will decide whether Americans are even allowed to challenge the practice

Called out by Jon Stewart, he fibbed