Sen. McConnell Relents on Bill to Reduce NSA Snooping
Senate will vote on USA Freedom Act
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ACLU and Tea Party Patriots Try to Mobilize Majority Support for Surveillance Reform
A new survey shows four-fifths of Americans are troubled by the lack of protection for their personal records.
Modest NSA Reforms Seem Likely to Pass House Again (UPDATE: It Passes)
Privacy-focused representatives prevented from offering amendments.
Warrantless Snooping Goes Far Beyond the NSA's Phone-Record Dragnet
Two cases highlight the precariousness of privacy when your records are not yours.
Mitch McConnell Still Thinks the NSA Should Keep Its Haystack, Because There Must Be a Needle in There Somewhere
A brief history of a misbegotten metaphor
Could Congressional Gridlock Save Us from the PATRIOT Act?
Fearmongering may not get security state members of Congress what they want.
Is Sanity Finally Returning to Terrorism Prevention?
The recent federal ruling against mass metadata collection could help turn the corner.
Clapper Didn't Lie About Metadata Collection, Guys! He Just Totally Forgot!
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Edward Snowden Statue's Co-Creator Talks With Reason About Political Art, 3D Printing, and Going Legitimate
Artists wanted to "draw a parallel between what Snowden was fighting for and the ideals that the American revolutionaries were fighting for."
Federal Court Rules Mass Metadata Collection Not Authorized by PATRIOT Act
Ruling sidesteps First and Fourth Amendment concerns.
'Restore the Fourth': Repeal the Patriot Act and End NSA Bulk Data Collection
The natural right protected by the Fourth Amendment is the right to be left alone.
Legislators Rebuke Officials Who Complain About Encryption
"Just follow the damn Constitution," Ted Lieu suggests.
New Effort to Scale Back NSA Surveillance Passes House Judiciary Committee
USA Freedom Act not nearly as strong as privacy advocates would like, but they're supporting it anyway.
The Time to Limit NSA Snooping Is Now
Reauthorizing an unamended PATRIOT Act would be reckless.
Hey, Kids! The National Security Agency Wants You to Recycle!
Big Brother loves Mother Earth.
David Brooks Suddenly Cares About Privacy When Cops Wear Cameras
Videotaping the police? A grave incursion on our privacy. Scooping up data on hundreds of millions? Bo-ring!
Have We Reached (and Passed) Peak Snowden?
John Oliver tries to keep the surveillance debate going with dick jokes.
You Know Who Else Thought NSA Mass Metadata Collection Was Bad? The NSA.
Prior to Edward Snowden's revelations, there was a push to end it.
The State Is Spying on You Right Now. Where's the Outrage?
Government spying is so common today that it is almost the new normal. Yet government spying is not normal to the Constitution.
NSA Spies on Wikipedia Users. Now It's Lawsuit Time.
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.
U.S., British Spy Agencies Hacked Their Way Into Accessing Smartphone Encryption Keys
The latest Snowden bombshell is about your SIM card.
Jeb Bush: "I don't understand the debate" Over the NSA's Bulk Phone Records Collection Program
It doesn't work. It's unconstitutional. And it intrudes deeply into the privacy of millions.
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.
No, Mass Surveillance Won't Stop Terrorist Attacks
The continued use of digital dragnets is a virtual guarantee of more lethal intelligence failures.
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.
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."
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.
How a Bipartisan Majority in Congress Shredded the Constitution, Again.
Hidden in the Cromnibus was a clause allowing the NSA to gather your private data and share it with law enforcement and foreign governments.
