Will This Awful Bill Allowing Warrantless Domestic Snooping Get Shoved Into an End-of-Year Spending Plan?
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
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Your Secrets Are Not Safe With Anyone
A cellphone tracking case gives SCOTUS a chance to reconsider a doctrine that threatens everyone's privacy.
The Good, the Bad, and the Unspeakably Ugly: A Reason Surveillance Reform Bill Primer
Congress must make a choice before the end of the year on the level of protections Americans get from unwarranted snooping.
The Senate Intelligence Committee Really Wants to Secretly Snoop on Americans
Every attempt to restrain and reform unwarranted domestic surveillance batted away.
Is Silicon Valley Building the Infrastructure for a Police State?
New AI tools could empower the government to violate our civil liberties.
Showdown Looming over Reform of Federal Surveillance Laws
House leadership rejects stronger protections shielding Americans from unwarranted snooping.
Are Your Kids Too Fragile? How to Make the Next Generation More Resilient.
Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman launch, Let Grow, a non-profit devoted to promoting better policies for raising children.
Rand Paul Worries Whether Surveillance Reform Will Even Be Debated in Senate
Will snooping reauthorizations just get quietly dumped into a spending bill?
Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Wyden Unveil Long-Awaited, Privacy-Protecting Surveillance Reform Bill
The Fourth Amendment matters to some legislators.
Senate Could Make It Easy for FBI to Spy on Teen Sexters, Black Lives Matter, and Other U.S. 'Criminals'
FISA reauthorization would majorly expand use of warrantless digital surveillance data against Americans.
Let Police Operate Drones for Emergencies—but with Full Transparency
Activists fear secret surveillance. Push for firmly enforced rules instead of bans.
Are the Feds Using Backdoor Searches to Access Your Banking Data?
BuzzFeed reports federal agencies violating the rules to engage in warrantless domestic snooping of financial information.
Here's How Some Lawmakers Want to Reform Federal Surveillance. Prepare to Be Disappointed
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
U.K. Official Wants You to Stop Sneering at Her for Trying to Destroy Your Privacy
Amber Rudd admits that she doesn't understand encryption while insisting on the need to undermine it.
Feds Give Americans the Frog Treatment
DHS looking to collect social media info from immigrants just the latest development in the surveillance society.
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DHS Wants to Collect Social Media Handles and Other Info from Immigrants, Naturalized Citizens
Government's thirst to know more about you is unquenchable.
Groups File Suit to Stop Warrantless Tech Searches at Borders
Homeland Security officials seize and snoop into thousands of phones and laptops without any evidence of criminal activity.
Congress to Trump: Reform Surveillance Authorities or Lose Them
FBI, Intel want broad snooping powers to stay intact. That may not be an option.
End Warrantless Deep State Spying: Don't Renew 702
It's time to rein in warrantless domestic surveillance before it's too late.
DHS to American Citizens: Let Us Scan Your Faces, or No International Travel
Another nugget of privacy threatened in the name of national security.
Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace
Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It'll make NSA mass data collection impossible.
Freedom Caucus Conservatives Break from Trump, Want More Surveillance Reform
Some legislators want more privacy protections from unwarranted snooping of U.S. citizens.
White House Makes It Official: It Wants to Keep Snooping on Americans
Trump and group of GOP senators don't want us to have greater privacy protections from unwarranted domestic surveillance.
James Comey's Lackluster Civil Liberties Record Shows Washington's Failure to Police Itself
Comey stood up to the Bush administration over illegal snooping, but as FBI director he defended surveillance.
Trump Wants to Replace James Comey with Someone a Lot Like Comey
A surprise tweet to announce a thoroughly conventional new FBI director
People Who Called Snowden a Traitor Shocked to Learn About All This Domestic Surveillance
Welcome to the club! Now let us tell you how to fix it.
Indiana Supreme Court: Cops Don't Need a Search Warrant to Get Cell Phone Location Data
How many Fourth Amendment protections do we forfeit when we use a cell phone?
Police Don't Need a Search Warrant to Use Your Cell Phone Records to Track Your Location. Will SCOTUS Do Something About it?
The Supreme Court is asked to give the third-party doctrine a second look.
FBI's James Comey Calls Wikileaks "Intelligence Porn," Dares To Define Journalism
The government's top domestic spook says that transparency is a bad, bad thing.
Another Reason to Thank Snowden: Increased Federal Surveillance Transparency
More than 150 million phone call records of Americans were collected in 2016.
NSA Ends One Particular Type of Domestic Email Data Collection
No more gathering communications from Americans that were 'about' a foreign target.
Australian Police Admit Illegally Snooping on Journalist
Country requires companies to collect and store mass amounts of citizen metadata. Abuses are inevitable.
Surveillance and Wars on Whistleblowers Leading to Less Press Freedom
America's score drops while Trump administration considers charges against WikiLeaks.
CIA Head Pompeo Would Like to Decide What Counts as a Real Media Outlet
A war on WikiLeaks will ultimately threaten a free press.
Former Trump Adviser with Russian Ties Revealed as Surveillance Target
FBI got warrant to monitor Carter Page's communications.
Eli Lake and The Fifth Column Talk Syria, Surveillance, and Security as the First Bombs Fall
Susan Rice, war-authorization, and confrontation with the Russkies all get a real-time workout
'Bad Hombres' Aren't the Only Ones Trump's Scary New Surveillance Tool Will Catch
Big Brother could go after American citizens too.
These Are the Questions Susan Rice Needs to Answer Under Oath
We've been incessantly assured there's nothing to this story. Perhaps.
You Don't Have to Be a Foreigner to Have Privacy Violated by Trump's 'Extreme Vetting'
Have a friend visiting from another country? DHS wants to know your connections.
Sen. Rand Paul Wants to Use Fight over Trump Snooping to Pass Surveillance Reforms
If Susan Rice's request to unmask Americans' names was legal, should the rules be changed?
Another Terror Attack Leads to Yet Another Government Assault on Your Right to Tech Privacy
The British government uses its own intel failures to demand weakening of encryption.
California Cops and the FBI Want to Keep Their Facial Recognition Tech Secret
Legislators aren't so sure that's a good idea. The FBI has been using facial recognition software for years without filing mandatory disclosures.
Reason at SXSW: What Can Americans Do About Government Snooping? (Podcast)
Listen to our panel at this year's festival in Austin, Texas.
Democrats Shouldn't Dismiss Spying Claims So Quickly
They were once concerned about "incidental" data collection by the NSA.
Will the Prospect of Taking Trump Down Ruin Chances for Surveillance Reform?
Privacy concerns that are worth debating get sucked into White House fight.
Trump Team Was 'Incidentally' Snooped on Post-Election, Says GOP Intel Chair Devin Nunes
Meanwhile, guess which side is now assuming surveillance equals guilt?
Journalist Barrett Brown on Prison, Leakers, and Private Intelligence Agencies
Brown just got out of prison this past November after four years behind bars for his association with "hacktivists."
Comey Confirms FBI Investigating Ties Between Russia, Trump Associates
Will assess whether anything illegal happened, but wouldn't provide details.
