Privacy

Policy

Borderline Disorders

Checkpoint nation

J.D. Tuccille | 5.31.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Jared Polis on Gov't Snooping Your Old Emails: 'We don't even know the extent to which this power has been used or abused'

Matt Welch | 5.29.2014 2:09 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Obama's Foreign Policy, Snowden's Spycraft, Jared Polis on Email Privacy, Adam Sandler's Cinematic Racism, Ferret Freedom, Videotaping Gun Sales, the Drone-Memo Switcheroo, Plus After-Show!

Matt Welch | 5.28.2014 8:15 PM

Policy

Why the FTC's Worries About Online Data Brokers Are Overblown

Peter Suderman | 5.28.2014 1:33 PM

Policy

House Approves a Weakened Surveillance Reform Bill After Co-Sponsors Turn Against It

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2014 6:27 PM

Policy

NYPD Mulls Using Microphone-Equipped Drones

Zenon Evans | 5.22.2014 3:45 PM

Policy

Change to Surveillance Reform Bill Could Nullify Ban on Mass Record Collection

Jacob Sullum | 5.21.2014 12:20 PM

Policy

NSA Records All Cell Phone Calls in the Bahamas, Finds Some Guy Mailing Marijuana

Scott Shackford | 5.20.2014 11:40 AM

Policy

In the Name of Privacy, the E.U.'s Top Court Endorses Censorship of Embarrassing Online Facts

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2014 3:43 PM

Politics

Ohio Court Orders Man To Stop Reproducing

Zenon Evans | 5.14.2014 1:22 PM

Politics

Prying Provokes Privacy Protection

Obama's PATRIOT games end in bipartisan support for surveillance reform.

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Glenn Greenwald's New NSA Book: Agency Wants to 'Know it All'

Book details how he met Snowden and reveals more NSA documents

Scott Shackford | 5.13.2014 2:51 PM

Policy

School Drug Testing All Its Students Censors 'Seditious' Dissent

Zenon Evans | 5.9.2014 1:25 PM

Science & Technology

Snapchat Settles With FTC Over Its Users Being Idiots

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.8.2014 5:02 PM

NSA

White House Praises NSA Reform Bill, Privacy Activists Still Have Concerns

It's called the USA Freedom Act, so it has to be great...right?

Matthew Feeney | 5.8.2014 11:18 AM

Civil Liberties

2,770 Teens Drug Tested by Company Headed by School Principal's Brother

Drug war crusaders are stripping high school students of privacy and trust.

Zenon Evans | 5.2.2014 4:31 PM

Politics

Summary of White House Big Data Privacy Report: 'Give Feds More Power, Please'

Scott Shackford | 5.2.2014 12:05 PM

Science & Technology

Tech Companies Increasingly Refusing to Keep Government Searches Secret

Big firms join Twitter in letting customers know about subpoenas

Scott Shackford | 5.1.2014 6:05 PM

Policy

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Expands Police Power to Conduct Warrantless Car Searches

Damon Root | 5.1.2014 11:31 AM

Policy

SCOTUS Seems Inclined to Limit Police Access to Your Cellphone

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2014 6:28 PM

Policy

Today at SCOTUS: Do Cops Need a Warrant to Search Your Cellphone When You're Under Arrest?

Damon Root | 4.29.2014 8:10 AM

Politics

Kareem, on Donald Sterling: 'Shouldn't we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media?'

Matt Welch | 4.28.2014 4:26 PM

Policy

An End to New York's War on Condoms?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.28.2014 10:53 AM

Civil Liberties

That Tracking Beacon You Call a Cell Phone At Issue in Florida Case

J.D. Tuccille | 4.25.2014 3:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Why Two Artists Installed a Spy Lamp at McDonald's

Coversnitch is "bridging the gap between online and IRL" in the most terrifying way possible.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.24.2014 3:55 PM

Civil Liberties

The Value of Privacy

What we really value is the freedom to choose when we'll give up some privacy and when we'll tell people to butt out.

John Stossel | 4.23.2014 12:00 PM

Nanny State

89-Year-Old Kicked Out of HUD Housing for Smoking Cigarettes

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.22.2014 1:10 PM

Civil Liberties

Border Patrol Harasses Local Protesters, Tells Them 'You Have No Rights Here'

J.D. Tuccille | 4.17.2014 3:26 PM

Politics

Revenge Porn: Should it be Criminalized?

Amanda Winkler | 4.15.2014 1:35 PM

Civil Liberties

FBI Wants 52 Million of Us in Facial Recognition Database By 2015

J.D. Tuccille | 4.14.2014 5:00 PM

Politics

Put Cameras in the Supreme Court

Australia, Canada, and England all allow cameras in their high courts. So should the U.S.

S.M. Oliva | 4.13.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Arizona Bill Opens Abortion Clinics to Surprise, Warrantless Searches

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.10.2014 3:15 PM

Civil Liberties

Condi Rice Joins Dropbox Board of Directors. Who Should Worry?

Scott Shackford | 4.10.2014 12:15 PM

Policy

Your Tax Returns Are Hacker Bait

The IRS is a terrible guardian of information, and the tax man keeps a treasure trove of personal data about almost every American.

J.D. Tuccille | 4.10.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

Instapundit: Meet The New Oligarchs, Same as the Old Oligarchs

Nick Gillespie | 4.9.2014 9:32 AM

Policy

Sunlight Slays Secret Snooping

Why Obama changed his mind about the NSA's phone record dragnet

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

The Case Against Warrantless Cell Phone Snooping by the Cops

Damon Root | 3.31.2014 4:40 PM

Policy

Why Bother With Drug-Sniffing Dogs If a Cop's Nose Can Authorize a Search?

Jacob Sullum | 3.31.2014 1:27 PM

Politics

Wave Goodbye to Horrible, Surveillance-Defending, Snowden-Slamming Rep. Mike Rogers

Scott Shackford | 3.28.2014 12:30 PM

Social Media

Minnesota School District Where Sixth Grader Had To Surrender Facebook Password to Administrators Settles for $70,000

Ed Krayewski | 3.27.2014 3:49 PM

Policy

Does Microsoft Have the Right To Search Your Email?

Zenon Evans | 3.25.2014 2:55 PM

Policy

Obama Continues Reign as Abusive Husband of American Media

Scott Shackford | 3.25.2014 11:55 AM

Policy

3 Lessons From the NSA Telephone Dragnet Obama Plans to End

Jacob Sullum | 3.25.2014 11:27 AM

Politics

Jimmy Carter Reveals Secret NSA Plan to Keep Post Offices Relevant

Scott Shackford | 3.24.2014 11:28 AM

Policy

Big Brother Is Watching You Eat

The federal government wants to use your technology to change what you eat. In the meantime, they're surreptitiously posting your data online.

Baylen Linnekin | 3.22.2014 8:00 AM

Policy

Illinois Supreme Court Unanimously Overturns the Country's Strictest Recording Ban

Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2014 1:09 PM