Privacy

Politics

The TSA Can't Say Whether Full-Body Scanners Work, Because Its Failures Are Classified

Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2012 2:49 PM

Politics

Jacob Sullum Discusses the Right to Record Cops on RT

Reason Staff | 5.18.2012 11:58 AM

Politics

Charles Krauthammer Goes "Hard Left" and Rants Against Domestic Drones: Or, Killing People Abroad is Okay, But Spying at Home is Wrong

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.16.2012 10:30 PM

Politics

Federal Judge Allows Class Action Challenging the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Program

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2012 6:11 PM

Nanny State

Court Says NSA Doesn't Have to Disclose Its Relationship With Google

J.D. Tuccille | 5.15.2012 7:34 PM

Politics

The First Amendment vs. the War on Cameras

Damon Root | 5.14.2012 5:43 PM

Politics

Bloomberg Likens the NYPD's 'Stop and Frisk' Program to Random DUI Checkpoints

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2012 4:36 PM

Science & Technology

Twitter Goes to Court To Defend User Privacy

J.D. Tuccille | 5.9.2012 3:51 PM

Politics

7th Circuit Orders Injunction Against Illinois Ban on Recording Cops

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

Your Daily Dystopia: Drone Edition

Jesse Walker | 5.8.2012 8:58 AM

Policy

Cops in Cruisers Sniff Out Cars Carrying Pot Smokers

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2012 11:37 AM

Politics

Ed Markey Looks Into Warrantless Cellphone Tracking

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2012 2:48 PM

Policy

How Dharun Ravi's Prosecutors Turned a Minor, Nonviolent Offense Into a Felony Subject to a 10-Year Prison Sentence

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 2:50 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Schools Use GPS Uniforms to Track Students! (Nanny of the Month, April 2012)

Ted Balaker | 5.1.2012 11:09 AM

Politics

Every Move You Make

How new surveillance technologies threaten privacy

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Rick Scott's Thirst for Urine Will Remain Unslaked

Jacob Sullum | 4.27.2012 12:50 PM

Politics

CISPA Passes House With Strong GOP Support

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2012 10:58 PM

Politics

White House Threatens Veto, ACLU Says CISPA Amendments Not Enough

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2012 5:15 PM

Policy

EU Parliament Approves Data Sharing Deal With U.S.

Ed Krayewski | 4.20.2012 2:07 PM

Politics

Only Latent Criminals Need Fear BusSafe Sweeps

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2012 5:36 PM

Civil Liberties

We'd Like to Take This Opportunity to Congratulate Ourselves for Our Unsubstantiated Role in Ending D.C.'s Most Notorious Traffic-Camera Speedtrap

Nick Gillespie | 4.18.2012 11:39 AM

Politics

Civil Libertarians Launch Campaign Against CISPA

Ed Krayewski | 4.16.2012 2:55 PM

Politics

Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 4:17 PM

Policy

New Telecomm Provider Would Put Privacy First

Ed Krayewski | 4.11.2012 2:50 PM

Politics

Tories Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Internet Surveillance

Jacob Sullum | 4.3.2012 4:00 PM

Politics

ACLU Says Police Often Obtain Cellphone Location Data Without Warrants

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 6:01 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Upholds Pre-Jail Strip Searches for Everyone, No Matter How Minor the Offense

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 4:50 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Will Consider Dogs' Reliability As Probable Cause Generators

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2012 5:26 PM

Policy

Smells Like Multiple Fourth Amendment Violations

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 3:17 PM

Politics

Dharun Ravi Found Guilty on Most Charges

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 1:04 PM

Politics

When a Republican President Does It, It's Not Illegal

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2012 1:57 PM

Politics

Illinois Judge Says Eavesdropping Law Is Unconstitutional

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2012 6:13 PM

Politics

Should Police Need a Warrant to Search an Arrestee's Cellphone?

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2012 3:10 PM

Culture

Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Google and Privacy on Cavuto

Reason Staff | 3.2.2012 2:07 PM

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Thought Crimes

The Tyler Clementi case shows how hate crime laws punish opinion.

Jacob Sullum | 2.29.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

No Sex Tape, No Outing in Tyler Clementi Case

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2012 4:31 PM

Nanny State

Target Knows Your Daughter Is Knocked Up: More Upsides to Zero Privacy

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.17.2012 10:46 AM

Nanny State

More Upsides to Zero Privacy: GPS Tracking for Cheaper Insurance

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.9.2012 4:48 PM

Politics

"There have been no good reasons not to televise the Supreme Court."

Damon Root | 2.2.2012 1:34 PM

Policy

What's Going On with Google's New Privacy Policy?

Julie Ershadi | 2.1.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

Federal Jury Says Cops Can't Arrest People for Recording Police Encounters

Jacob Sullum | 1.30.2012 3:56 PM

Politics

How GPS Tracking Threatens Privacy

The Supreme Court considers the 4th Amendment implications of new surveillance technologies.

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Rules That GPS Tracking Is a 'Search'

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2012 12:02 PM

Politics

This May Be the Only Time I've Rooted for the DEA

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2012 1:38 PM