The Massive SolarWinds Hack Won't Stop the Feds from Wanting All Your Data
Government surveillance doesn't just violate privacy rights; it’s a major security risk.
Government surveillance doesn't just violate privacy rights; it’s a major security risk.
Authoritarian-minded officials have found opportunity in public health fears.
Time to add a hat and sunglasses!
Real-time police spying through smart security cams is already here.
The president has the worst record for clemency in modern history.
By lowering the “travel rule” threshold to $250, the government could access more of our financial data.
It's unclear what Biden will ultimately be able to accomplish as president, but he has been trying to bring transformative change since the 1970s.
The surveillance whistleblower has a child on the way and little sign a pardon is forthcoming.
In 2014, more than half of all California wiretaps (and one sixth of all the wiretaps in the U.S.) were authorized by one judge in Riverside County.
Part two of a four-part series on the history of the cypherpunk movement
An Ohio judge suggests the answer should be "yes," and an Ohio statute seems to require that when Facebook employees learn of specific felonies revealed by posts that they might be monitoring for some reason.
Why does media coverage conclude the problem is that the government hasn’t done a good enough job of spying?
A country that was once making strides toward freedom slides further into oppression and authoritarianism.
A federal appeals court concludes that the agency's mass collection of phone records was illegal and probably unconstitutional.
Defeating surveillance is a powerful argument for covering your face.
We don’t trust state-controlled companies in China. Would it be different if we did more of the controlling?
All the worst people are still mad he blew the whistle on government snooping.
At least something good could come out of this mess of an investigation.
Officials have never liked it when people are free to move about—and beyond their reach.
New apps can work as surveillance techniques for the government. They can also serve as anonymous health tools for people hoping to return to normal life.
Huawei’s Safe City security system is undergoing a massive expansion across Belgrade.
Americans are increasingly monitored, and COVID-19 health concerns aren’t improving the situation.
Will tech companies resist orders to cooperate with demands for information to root out dissidents?
"Supreme Court jurisprudence...is heavily weighted against you," an appeals judge told state prosecutors last week.
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Both companies need to join IBM and others in entirely abandoning the development of this mass surveillance technology.
Sometime in 2021, the American people will be presented with a reorganized and newly empowered federal public health bureaucracy. As time passes, it will grow in size and scope.
Weak reforms to the government’s power to secretly snoop on Americans wasn’t enough for the president. What happens next?
National security journalist Barton Gellman talks about "the surveillance-industrial state," the possibility of a Biden presidency or a second Trump term, and his gripping new book.
Barton Gellman's new book is a riveting account of exposing NSA excesses to the light of the day.
Sen. Wyden withdraws support for amendment due to fears it has been weakened too much.
The House will consider a surveillance reform proposal that failed in the Senate by just one vote.
The Wyden-Daines Amendment would've prohibited warrantless monitoring of web activity, but it lost by one vote in the Senate. Will Nancy Pelosi bring it back in the House?
On crime, drugs, immigration, and foreign policy, his 44-year policy record is a cautionary tale of bipartisanship in response to perceived crises.
The FBI and attorney general want to ruin everybody's data security and draft Apple into compromising your safety.
People insisted the wiretapping of Carter Page was perfectly normal. That turned out to be wrong.
Tracing where people have been and who they’ve met can be effective for battling disease. But, oh boy, does it lend itself to abuse.
An effort by Sen. Rand Paul to forbid warrantless investigation of citizens was soundly defeated.
The amendment lost by one vote. Absent from today's vote? Sen. Bernie Sanders.
An amendment to a FISA renewal bill would let the FBI snoop on your online browser history.
Privacy activists say we should be alarmed by the rise of automated facial recognition surveillance. Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan says it's time to embrace the end of privacy as we know it.
The USA Freedom Act expired in March. Some senators are pushing for better privacy protections before the renewal vote.