Could Congressional Gridlock Save Us from the PATRIOT Act?
Fearmongering may not get security state members of Congress what they want.
Fearmongering may not get security state members of Congress what they want.
The recent federal ruling against mass metadata collection could help turn the corner.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Artists wanted to "draw a parallel between what Snowden was fighting for and the ideals that the American revolutionaries were fighting for."
Ruling sidesteps First and Fourth Amendment concerns.
The natural right protected by the Fourth Amendment is the right to be left alone.
"Just follow the damn Constitution," Ted Lieu suggests.
USA Freedom Act not nearly as strong as privacy advocates would like, but they're supporting it anyway.
Reauthorizing an unamended PATRIOT Act would be reckless.
Big Brother loves Mother Earth.
Videotaping the police? A grave incursion on our privacy. Scooping up data on hundreds of millions? Bo-ring!
John Oliver tries to keep the surveillance debate going with dick jokes.
Prior to Edward Snowden's revelations, there was a push to end it.
Government spying is so common today that it is almost the new normal. Yet government spying is not normal to the Constitution.
Wikimedia joins with the ACLU to sue the pants off the feds for violating the privacy and free speech rights of encyclopedia users and editors.
The latest Snowden bombshell is about your SIM card.
It doesn't work. It's unconstitutional. And it intrudes deeply into the privacy of millions.
It's Philip K. Dick's world. We just live here.
Possible presidential candidate wants NSA mass data gathering made permanent.
The continued use of digital dragnets is a virtual guarantee of more lethal intelligence failures.
The surveillance debate that supposedly preoccupies the president is one he never wanted to have.
And it's way past time that lying domestic spying agency chiefs should be punished.
National Academy of Sciences report finds "no software-based technique can fully replace the bulk collection of signals intelligence."
Pay attention if you care about due process, Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches, the limits of government surveillance, and Internet freedom.
A modest proposal for doing away with the intelligence agencies that violate our privacy.
Hidden in the Cromnibus was a clause allowing the NSA to gather your private data and share it with law enforcement and foreign governments.