Let Police Operate Drones for Emergencies—but with Full Transparency
Activists fear secret surveillance. Push for firmly enforced rules instead of bans.
Activists fear secret surveillance. Push for firmly enforced rules instead of bans.
BuzzFeed reports federal agencies violating the rules to engage in warrantless domestic snooping of financial information.
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
Amber Rudd admits that she doesn't understand encryption while insisting on the need to undermine it.
DHS looking to collect social media info from immigrants just the latest development in the surveillance society.
Department of Homeland Security
Government's thirst to know more about you is unquenchable.
Homeland Security officials seize and snoop into thousands of phones and laptops without any evidence of criminal activity.
FBI, Intel want broad snooping powers to stay intact. That may not be an option.
It's time to rein in warrantless domestic surveillance before it's too late.
Another nugget of privacy threatened in the name of national security.
Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It'll make NSA mass data collection impossible.
Some legislators want more privacy protections from unwarranted snooping of U.S. citizens.
Trump and group of GOP senators don't want us to have greater privacy protections from unwarranted domestic surveillance.
Comey stood up to the Bush administration over illegal snooping, but as FBI director he defended surveillance.
A surprise tweet to announce a thoroughly conventional new FBI director
Welcome to the club! Now let us tell you how to fix it.
How many Fourth Amendment protections do we forfeit when we use a cell phone?
The Supreme Court is asked to give the third-party doctrine a second look.
The government's top domestic spook says that transparency is a bad, bad thing.
More than 150 million phone call records of Americans were collected in 2016.
No more gathering communications from Americans that were 'about' a foreign target.
Country requires companies to collect and store mass amounts of citizen metadata. Abuses are inevitable.
America's score drops while Trump administration considers charges against WikiLeaks.
A war on WikiLeaks will ultimately threaten a free press.
FBI got warrant to monitor Carter Page's communications.
Susan Rice, war-authorization, and confrontation with the Russkies all get a real-time workout
Big Brother could go after American citizens too.
We've been incessantly assured there's nothing to this story. Perhaps.
Have a friend visiting from another country? DHS wants to know your connections.
If Susan Rice's request to unmask Americans' names was legal, should the rules be changed?
The British government uses its own intel failures to demand weakening of encryption.
Legislators aren't so sure that's a good idea. The FBI has been using facial recognition software for years without filing mandatory disclosures.
Listen to our panel at this year's festival in Austin, Texas.
They were once concerned about "incidental" data collection by the NSA.
Privacy concerns that are worth debating get sucked into White House fight.
Meanwhile, guess which side is now assuming surveillance equals guilt?
Brown just got out of prison this past November after four years behind bars for his association with "hacktivists."
Will assess whether anything illegal happened, but wouldn't provide details.
Vault 7 serves as another reminder of the inherent folly in building government-mandated backdoors into secure systems.
Yes, they're even spying on the president.
Coincidentally, a panel at SXSW today is about social media surveillance
Surveillance, data collection and biometrics all topic of debate.
Government can "invade our private spaces" if it has a "good reason."
Agency hoards infiltration tools and puts our information at risk of exposure.
From using smart TVs for spying to hoarding IT vulnerabilities
Fight over government control ignores issue of snooping on all the rest of us.
White House does not want federal surveillance authorities reformed.
Matt Welch reviews Barry Friedman's Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission in the Wall Street Journal