Privacy

Policy

Can Ignorance Protect Your Privacy?

A ruling against warrantless tracking assumes that people don't know how cellphones work.

Jacob Sullum | 6.18.2014 7:00 AM

NSA

Sens. Wyden, Udall, Paul take to L.A. Times to Demand Real NSA Reform

Scott Shackford | 6.17.2014 10:31 AM

Policy

This Just Smells Bad

Charles Oliver | 6.13.2014 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Brickbat: This Just Smells Bad

Charles Oliver | 6.13.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Federal Appeals Court: Cellphone Tracking Requires a Warrant

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2014 2:01 PM

Civil Liberties

We're Too Big and Disorganized to Comply With Court Orders, Says NSA

J.D. Tuccille | 6.10.2014 7:52 PM

Culture

Linking Without Consent: The New (Imagined) Tragedy of the Twitter Commons

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.9.2014 4:48 PM

Culture

Welcome to the Naked Future

Celebrating the death of privacy

Ronald Bailey | 6.8.2014 10:00 AM

Civil Liberties

LAPD Acquires Two Drones

Paul Detrick | 6.8.2014 9:30 AM

Economics

Meet the Good Guys of the Deep Web

Paul Best | 6.6.2014 11:30 AM

Civil Liberties

What Did Edward Snowden Teach Us in Just One Year?

Scott Shackford | 6.5.2014 3:33 PM

Policy

Alameda County Sheriff Sued for Forcing Women To Take Pregnancy Tests

Zenon Evans | 6.4.2014 1:15 PM

Civil Liberties

US Marshals Seize FL Cops' Surveillance Records to Deny Them to ACLU

J.D. Tuccille | 6.4.2014 9:31 AM

Civil Liberties

NSA Wants a Good Look at Your Photos (Aren't You Flattered?)

J.D. Tuccille | 6.2.2014 11:45 AM

Policy

Mozilla's Vice President: Trading Away Your Privacy

Todd Krainin and Paul Detrick | 6.1.2014 9:30 AM

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