Is That a Nuke in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
New book, The Future of Violence, is terrified about 'technologies of mass empowerment'
Surveillance
UK Puts Hundreds of Thousands of Innocent People in Facial Recognition Database
The smart money says U.S. agencies can get that up to millions
One in Three Americans Hide Data From Government (and You Should Too)
Crack the code on my selfies, you jerks
GOP's New Foreign Policy Hero Is a Surveillance-Loving Interventionist Nightmare
Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton wants to invade Iran and Syria, jail journalists and whistleblowers, eavesdrop on Americans, and keep the 'savages' locked up in Gitmo.
These Glasses Can Thwart Facial Recognition Software
In an age of ever-increasing surveillance, one simple technology could help protect your privacy.
What if the Government Fears Freedom?
What if Bush and Obama have been wrong about the priority of their constitutional duties as president?
U.S., British Spy Agencies Hacked Their Way Into Accessing Smartphone Encryption Keys
The latest Snowden bombshell is about your SIM card.
Congress Trudges Ahead on Perhaps Honoring the Fourth Amendment
The continuing fight for e-mail privacy and against terrible aspects of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Friday A/V Club: World Leader Predicts TV Will Solve the Planet's Problems
A blast of techo-utopianism from 1929
Glenn Greenwald: The Outsider
The anti-establishment journalist who midwifed the Edward Snowden revelations talks about surveillance, reporting, and new fault lines in American politics.
DHS to Start Collecting Iris and Facial Recognition Images at Border
It's Philip K. Dick's world. We just live here.
Sen. Marco Rubio: Surveillance Now, Surveillance Tomorrow, Surveillance Forever!
Possible presidential candidate wants NSA mass data gathering made permanent.
LAPD, Which Tracks Citizens Through Their Phones, Worries About You Doing the Same to Them
Cops don't like navigation app Waze because it shows where they are.
No, Mass Surveillance Won't Stop Terrorist Attacks
The continued use of digital dragnets is a virtual guarantee of more lethal intelligence failures.
Barrett Brown Gets 63 Months in Jail, Nearly a Million Fine
'Anonymous'-linked journalist convicted for issues arising from an FBI investigation into non-crimes.
In the Era of High-Tech Law Enforcement, Who Will Keep Our Privacy Safe?
More than 50 American law enforcement agencies possess a new handheld radar device that can spy through walls.
Obama's Privacy Conversion
The surveillance debate that supposedly preoccupies the president is one he never wanted to have.
Obama Promises to Strengthen Privacy in State of the Union Speech - Rand Paul Would End Domestic Spying
And it's way past time that lying domestic spying agency chiefs should be punished.
Police Use Radar Device To See Inside Your House
The latest example of battlefield technology finding its way home to civilian policing
British Spy Agency Practiced Scooping Up Journalists' E-mails
Ten minutes of communications at news outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times, and NBC collected.
NSA Domestic Spying: There is No Technological Replacement for Liberty
National Academy of Sciences report finds "no software-based technique can fully replace the bulk collection of signals intelligence."
Orwell's 1984 Still Matters, Though Not in the Way You Might Think
A Washington, D.C., readathon reminds us that the left once hated this anti-totalitarian classic.
What's a Terrorist Attack If Not An Excuse for More Domestic Spying?
Driven by a need to appear proactive, and a taste for power, government officials once again exploit a murderous incident to increase their authority over us.
Why the Prosecution of Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht is "The Most Important Trial in America"
Pay attention if you care about due process, Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches, the limits of government surveillance, and Internet freedom.
Abolish the Intelligence-Industrial Complex
A modest proposal for doing away with the intelligence agencies that violate our privacy.
Internet Freedom Under Global Attack; Report Finds Governments Around the World Expanded Online Control, Surveillance Last Year
Governments are expanding online controls "rapidly" and adopting new laws that effectively criminalize online dissent.
