Privacy

Science & Technology

How Kids Find Online Privacy

Three ways kids keep their virtual lives to themselves.

Reason Staff | 10.1.2014 6:00 AM

Culture

Emma Watson Photo Leak Was a Prank Dressed Up as Viral Marketing Dressed Up as 4Chan

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.24.2014 8:10 AM

TSA

ACLU: TSA Now Using 'Hypothetical Threats' to Assign Passengers to Watchlists

Scott Shackford | 9.23.2014 4:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Upskirt Photos, Free Speech, & Media Hysterics

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.22.2014 4:00 PM

Apple

Apple's New Marketing Plan: Screw the Police (UPDATE: Google Agrees)

Scott Shackford | 9.18.2014 11:00 AM

Surveillance

Smartphone Experiment Shows How Your Metadata Tells Your Story

Scott Shackford | 9.15.2014 10:50 AM

Surveillance

$250,000 a Day: That's the Fine the Feds Threatened Yahoo With for Resisting Data Demands

Scott Shackford | 9.11.2014 5:12 PM

Civil Liberties

Constitution Cramp Your Law Enforcement Style? Contract Out Your Civil Liberties Violations!

J.D. Tuccille | 9.11.2014 11:22 AM

Surveillance

Mass NSA Phone Metadata Collection in Federal Appeals Court Crosshairs

Scott Shackford | 9.3.2014 12:05 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Latest ISIL Beheading, Grover Norquist Tells All About Burning Man, Report from the Russo-Ukrainian Mini-war, Leaked Nudes, Revolving Cantor, NSA, Minimum Wage, Plus After-show!

Matt Welch | 9.2.2014 8:04 PM

Surveillance

Appeals Court Takes on Legalities of NSA Snooping

Obama administration grilled on mass collection of phone records

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 5:40 PM

Warrants

Microsoft Still Resisting Orders to Surrender Overseas Emails to DOJ

Scott Shackford | 9.2.2014 4:15 PM

Surveillance

Dems Push Obama to Declassify Snooping Rules

Want access to legal opinions justifying executive power to collect people's information

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 2:30 PM

Drones

California Senate Bans Warrantless Police Drones - Hooray!

Ronald Bailey | 8.27.2014 9:41 AM

NSA

The Latest NSA Revelation Wouldn't Be So Scary If Agency Hadn't Gone Bonkers

How to make a search engine sound terrifying

Scott Shackford | 8.25.2014 4:20 PM

NSA

Inside the NSA's Secret Surveillance Search Engine

More info from Snowden's documents.

Reason Staff | 8.25.2014 2:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Friday A/V Club: Avant-Garde ACLU Ads of the 1970s

Directed by Godfrey Reggio

Jesse Walker | 8.22.2014 8:30 AM

Security

Nude Body Scanners Easily Tricked

They've been removed from U.S. airports, but are still being used elsewhere.

Reason Staff | 8.21.2014 1:40 PM

Civil Liberties

Cellphone Tracking Means They Can Hear You Now

Suitcase-size systems mimic cellphone towers and follow your every move.

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.18.2014 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Digital Lineups

The FBI plans to stick the mugs of almost 1 in 6 Americans into a facial recognition database by next year.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.16.2014 10:30 AM

Policy

Report: IRS Exposed 1.4 Million Taxpayers to Identity Theft

Brilliant.

Reason Staff | 8.14.2014 4:59 PM

Policy

1.4 Million Taxpayers Exposed to 'increased risk of fraud and identity theft' by IRS

Nice work, oh tax collectors.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.14.2014 4:41 PM

Policy

The Intelligence Community's Secrets and Lies

Obama's loyalty lies with the spooks, not with the people who elected him.

Steve Chapman | 8.7.2014 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

With 'Operation Torpedo,' FBI Malware Infiltrates Dark Web

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.6.2014 5:10 PM

Policy

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on Censorship of Internet Search Results: 'History Is a Human Right'

Jacob Sullum | 8.6.2014 4:03 PM

Privacy

Wikipedia Fighting "Right to Be Forgotten"

Made up right!

Reason Staff | 8.6.2014 12:11 PM

War on Terror

Contain Your Shock: Huge Numbers of People on Watch Lists Have No Connection to Terrorist Groups

Scott Shackford | 8.5.2014 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Big Brother Is Watching: Helsinki Airport Introduces Real-Time Passenger Tracking

Reason Staff | 7.30.2014 9:12 AM

Surveillance

NSA Surveillance Causes Journalists to Have to Act Like Drug Dealers to Protect Sources

Scott Shackford | 7.28.2014 5:30 PM

NSA

How Much Longer Until the Government Thinks Everybody Is a Terrorist?

Scott Shackford | 7.24.2014 11:10 AM

Civil Liberties

Mask Up for San Diego's Growing Surveillance State

J.D. Tuccille | 7.22.2014 3:27 PM

Civil Liberties

Missouri Is the Only State Not Tracking People's Prescriptions

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.21.2014 12:15 PM

Policy

Since When Do Libertarians Support Gun Control and Taxpayer-Funded Abortions?

Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2014 1:29 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Defends 'Almost-Orwellian' NSA in Federal Court

Damon Root | 7.15.2014 11:53 AM

Civil Liberties

Turning Yourself Into a Surveillance Camera May be Perfectly Legal

Sousveillance as a constitutional right.

Jerry Brito | 7.14.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

What's the Ideal Job for an Identity Thief? IRS Tax Examiner!

J.D. Tuccille | 7.10.2014 1:59 PM

NSA

What You Should Take Away From Glenn Greenwald's Latest NSA Report

Scott Shackford | 7.9.2014 11:10 AM

Policy

The NSA's Online Dragnet

Warrantless surveillance hits the target, along with many other people.

Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Live in Syracuse? Want to Avoid Cop Cameras? Check This Out.

Zenon Evans | 7.7.2014 12:35 PM

NSA

Earth to NSA: It's Not 'Inadvertent' Collection of Private Data if You Know and Keep Doing It

Scott Shackford | 7.7.2014 10:40 AM

NSA

Federal Privacy Oversight Board: Phone Metadata Collection Bad; Internet Metadata Collection Good

Scott Shackford | 7.2.2014 3:35 PM

Policy

Senate Sex Trafficking Bill Criminalizes Online Publishers and Creates State-Accessible Sex Worker Registries

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.1.2014 11:50 AM

Civil Liberties

About That Creepy Biometric Database, FBI, We'd Like to Know a Bit More

J.D. Tuccille | 6.26.2014 2:52 PM

Politics

'Get a Warrant': John Roberts Gives the Cops a Benchslap in Riley v. California

Damon Root | 6.25.2014 3:16 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Ilya Shapiro on SCOTUS, Radley Balko on Police-Militarization, Elizabeth MacDonald on the Atrocious GDP Numbers, Eli Lake on ISIS, Plus Clinton Poverty, IRS Illegality, and More!

Matt Welch | 6.25.2014 2:31 PM