Shadow-Censorship on Social Media Sparks New Concerns for Open-Internet Advocates
The digital censors of tomorrow will control information by secretly limiting or obscuring the ways that people can access it online.
The digital censors of tomorrow will control information by secretly limiting or obscuring the ways that people can access it online.
There's always a way around.
These projects aren't fiscally responsible, but the FCC has given them a thumbs up.
Governor signs bill requiring court orders for accessing things like texts and tracking location data.
Federal judge says he has no FOIA authority over Clinton's private email system.
The U.N. has no idea how to combat cyberbullying.
Along with your other web-browsing habits
French authorities says Google must apply "right to be forgotten" to international search-engine results.
'At this point, I would not be having sex, would not be engaging in any sexual release,' if there were no sex workers.
Federal court invalidates gag order extending more than a decade.
The U.S. "would go crazy if China did this to us," says Microsoft about DOJ attempt to compel email data stored overseas.
The real moral of the Ashley Madison hack? Our data is fundamentally insecure.
Anonymous sites do $500,000 per day in deals that make the powers-that-be twitch
Somebody's making a desperate effort to try to maintain control of the situation.
Q&A with Deep Web director Alex Winter.
Deep Web Director Alex Winter calls the sentencing an "injustice" that's "tantamount to torture."
The question for cybersecurity-minded lawmakers should not be how to control the zero-day market but how to encourage more "white hat" trades and fewer destructive ones.
The Singularity is closer and dumber than you think.
The columnist thinks you should go out of business if some of your customers are criminals.
VR headsets could give new life to the Second Life concept-for better or worse.
The celebrated Chinese artist was denied a business visa by the British government.
The legendary tech writer on net neutrality, the FCC, and why Bitcoin is the missing eighth layer of the Internet.
"It appears that an oft-used tool for identifying lawbreakers will be lost if Backpage were to fold," writes federal judge.
With no legal authority to do so, Sheriff Tom Dart threatened to go after Visa and MasterCard if they did not cease doing business with Backpage.com.
The Hacking Team sold many governments-including ours-products to directly target journalists, software developers, and activists for surveillance.
Score one for sex workers, capitalism, and common sense.
Governments Should All "Go Dark" When It Comes to Spying on Their Citizens
The worm was designed to gather intelligence on the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks.
Bitcoin is now the only means of paying for adult ads on the popular web classifieds site Backpage.com.
Do we really need the FBI & Homeland Security going after teens who share their girlfriends' boobs on Reddit?
Can Americans' collective wisdom solve our collective problems?
How a cat-loving entrepreneur brought kittens and caffeine to the nation's capital
Minds excels where other popular social networks, particularly Facebook, fail: transparency and protecting user privacy.
The War on Terror is providing plenty of rhetorical ammunition to anti-encryption officials, but they are dangerously wrong.
The natural next step in the evolution of Internet music services
Reporting from outside the courthouse, Kurt Loder caught up with Ross' mother, Lyn, and filmmaker Alex Winter.
...and other topics from DigBoston's recent interview with me
Plaintiffs coerced into prostitution as teens alleged that Backpage was complicit in their trafficking.
The debunked #BaltimoreLootCrew tweets find a new way to feed fearmongering.
Watch the first-ever event devoted to "Internet Independence Day," when the government got out of the business of running the Internet backbone.
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