Surveillance

Surveillance

Feds Bugged Sharyl Attkisson's Computer

"Worse than anything Nixon ever did."

Reason Staff | 10.28.2014 4:15 PM

Policy

You Look Too Calm. What Are You, a Terrorist? Now You Look Nervous, Terrorist.

Zenon Evans | 10.28.2014 2:12 PM

Department of Homeland Security

Have the Feds Tracked Down the Terror Watchlist Guidance Leaker?

Scott Shackford | 10.27.2014 4:35 PM

Civil Liberties

Maybe Your Kid Won't Be Ear-Tagged After All. Student-Tracking Loses Favor.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.27.2014 3:56 PM

Politics

Ready for Cops to Check You for Explosives, Chicago CTA Riders?

Zenon Evans | 10.24.2014 5:40 PM

Surveillance

Rep. King: U.S. Needs To 'Go All Out With Surveillance' Of Muslims

Today in terrible, no good, unconstitutional ideas.

Reason Staff | 10.24.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

'Omnipresence': The NYPD's New Secret Orwellian Tactic

Anthony Fisher | 10.23.2014 1:21 PM

Edward Snowden

NSA Groupie Rep. Mike Rogers Wants Edward Snowden Charged with Murder

Scott Shackford | 10.22.2014 5:30 PM

Politics

NSA Opponent Mark Udall Could Lose Senate Seat

Lucian McMahon | 10.20.2014 3:59 PM

NSA

NSA Investigating Current Official's Work With Ex-Chief's Lucrative New Firm

Yet, they somehow don't know if the two are actually working together.

Zenon Evans | 10.20.2014 3:10 PM

Politics

Live Today at 12 Noon ET: Edward Snowden Interviewed by Lawrence Lessig

Nick Gillespie | 10.20.2014 11:13 AM

Civil Liberties

Your Driving History is Public, Unless You Want a Copy

Patrick Hannaford | 10.16.2014 4:35 PM

Republican Party

4 Ways Republicans Are Full of Shit

Jason Keisling and J.D. Tuccille | 10.16.2014 2:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Florida Supreme Court Rules Cell Phone Location Data Protected by 4th Amendment

Reason Staff | 10.16.2014 12:50 PM

Politics

Google Warns That NSA Is Breaking Internet

Lucian McMahon | 10.10.2014 3:39 PM

Policy

Feds: If FBI Conducted Warrantless Hack of Silk Road, It Was Legal Because Servers Were Foreign

Zenon Evans | 10.8.2014 2:55 PM

Civil Liberties

Intrusive National Security Letters Get Appeals Court Scrutiny

J.D. Tuccille | 10.8.2014 12:08 PM

Civil Liberties

Gay Egyptians Worry the Government Has Been Using a Hookup App to Track Them

Grindr: tool of the state?

Jesse Walker | 10.7.2014 12:50 PM

Policy

Law Enforcement Keeps Defending ComputerCOP Spyware, Will Distribute Until Someone Gets Hurt

Zenon Evans | 10.7.2014 11:35 AM

Politics

Lindsey Graham 'Nowhere Near' a Presidential Run, Lucky for Us All

Patrick Hannaford | 10.6.2014 4:44 PM

Politics

Senator Exploits JP Morgan Data Breach to Push Surveillance Bill

Zenon Evans | 10.6.2014 3:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Librarians Mount Defense Against Government Surveillance

Lucian McMahon | 10.6.2014 3:32 PM

Policy

Sheriff Says 'ComputerCOP' Spyware Isn't Spyware. If You Disagree You're a 'Liberal' Who Supports Murderers and Pedophiles

Zenon Evans | 10.3.2014 1:20 PM

Civil Liberties

Cops Distribute 'Internet Safety Software' That's Actually Unsafe Spyware

Zenon Evans | 10.1.2014 6:00 PM

Politics

Eric Holder is a Back Door Man (Tech Edition)

Nick Gillespie | 10.1.2014 10:11 AM

Policy

This Speed Camera Handed Out $77,550 Worth of Tickets in One Day

Zenon Evans | 9.29.2014 2:40 PM

Politics

Free Speech at Risk in Australia, Thanks to Terrible New Counter-Terrorism Bill

Patrick Hannaford | 9.26.2014 4:19 PM

Policy

Cops Must Promise to Keep Secrets for FBI, FCC Phone Snooping Tech

Zenon Evans | 9.24.2014 6:15 PM

Surveillance

Smartphone Experiment Shows How Your Metadata Tells Your Story

Scott Shackford | 9.15.2014 10:50 AM

Politics

Obama's ISIS War Already Hits Home: DHS Tells Retailers to Spy on You

Zenon Evans | 9.12.2014 12:20 PM

Surveillance

$250,000 a Day: That's the Fine the Feds Threatened Yahoo With for Resisting Data Demands

Scott Shackford | 9.11.2014 5:12 PM

Surveillance

Blocking Google Glass, Drone, and Wireless Microphone Snoops: Cyborg Unplug

Ronald Bailey | 9.10.2014 3:07 PM

Culture

Facebook Messenger Censors (Some of) Your Favorite Porn Sites

Guess which ones made the list and which ones didn't.

Zenon Evans | 9.4.2014 1:25 PM

Surveillance

FBI's Abuse of National Security Letters Seems to Have Lessened—Except Maybe Against Journalists

Scott Shackford | 9.4.2014 12:50 PM

Surveillance

Mass NSA Phone Metadata Collection in Federal Appeals Court Crosshairs

Scott Shackford | 9.3.2014 12:05 PM

Surveillance

Appeals Court Takes on Legalities of NSA Snooping

Obama administration grilled on mass collection of phone records

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 5:40 PM

Surveillance

Dems Push Obama to Declassify Snooping Rules

Want access to legal opinions justifying executive power to collect people's information

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 2:30 PM

Politics

That Time the President, the FBI, and a Moonlighting Supreme Court Justice Tried to Dig Up Dirt on a Movie Star

When LBJ ordered an investigation of George Hamilton.

Jesse Walker | 9.2.2014 11:35 AM

Civil Liberties

Back to School Surveillance: "If you're not where you want to be at the expected time, campus police will show up."

Zenon Evans | 8.29.2014 12:05 PM

Civil Liberties

Tacoma PD Joins the Ranks of Police Agencies Concealing Use of Cellphone Trackers

J.D. Tuccille | 8.27.2014 10:35 AM

Drones

California Senate Bans Warrantless Police Drones - Hooray!

Ronald Bailey | 8.27.2014 9:41 AM

Civil Liberties

Are Rogue NSA Agents Tipping Off Tor to Its Vulnerabilities?

Zenon Evans | 8.26.2014 1:48 PM

NSA

The Latest NSA Revelation Wouldn't Be So Scary If Agency Hadn't Gone Bonkers

How to make a search engine sound terrifying

Scott Shackford | 8.25.2014 4:20 PM

NSA

Inside the NSA's Secret Surveillance Search Engine

More info from Snowden's documents.

Reason Staff | 8.25.2014 2:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Friday A/V Club: Avant-Garde ACLU Ads of the 1970s

Directed by Godfrey Reggio

Jesse Walker | 8.22.2014 8:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Cellphone Tracking Means They Can Hear You Now

Suitcase-size systems mimic cellphone towers and follow your every move.

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.18.2014 12:00 PM

Surveillance

What Liberty in America Looked Like During World War 1

Horrible. It looked horrible.

Sheldon Richman | 8.17.2014 8:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Digital Lineups

The FBI plans to stick the mugs of almost 1 in 6 Americans into a facial recognition database by next year.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.16.2014 10:30 AM