by Stephanie Simon. The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find out not ... MORE
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School Districts Are Paying To Data Mine Your Children
by Stephanie Simon. The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find out not ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: No Place To Hide
Congress does nothing while liberty evaporates. With heart-pounding suspense, John le Carre-like intrigue and
Jeffersonian fidelity to the principles of human freedom, Glenn
Greenwald has just published "No Place to Hide." The book, which reads
like a thriller, is Greenwald's story of his nonstop two weeks of work
in May and June of 2013 ... MORE
Dustin Volz: House To Advance Bill To Curb NSA Spying
Public knowledge of it anyway. A bill that would effectively end one of the National Security Agency's most controversial spy programs is finally getting its day in congressional court. The House Judiciary Committee will hold a markup of an amended version of the USA Freedom Act on Wednesday, a surprising and sudden move that would ... MOREUSPS Wants To Mine & Sell Data Gathered From Your Mail
by Giuseppe Macri. The United States Postal Service is looking to get in on the big-data-for-profit game played by tech giants like Facebook and Google, and begin mining and selling private data gathered from personal mail sent from and received by Americans everywhere. USPS chief marketing and sales officer Nagisa Manabe recently told ... MORE
NSA Admits to Wrongdoing—What Now?
by Andrew Napolitano. Who is it that protects and defends the Constitution? Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which he admitted that agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading innocent ... MORENSA's Warrantless Searches On Americans
by Spencer Ackerman and James Ball. US intelligence chiefs have confirmed that the National Security
Agency has used a "back door" in surveillance law to perform warrantless
searches on Americans’ communications. The NSA's collection programs are ostensibly targeted at foreigners, but in August the Guardian revealed a secret rule ... MOREWhat If Secrecy Trumps The Constitution?
by Andrew Napolitano. What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon, as the Constitution requires? What if this massive spying has come about because the NSA found it too difficult ... MORE
NSA Fearmongering And Propagandizing
by Glenn Greenwald. Over the last 40 years, the U.S. government has relied on extreme
fear-mongering to demonize transparency. In sum, every time an unwanted
whistleblower steps forward, we are treated to the same messaging: You’re all going to die because of these leakers and the journalists who publish their disclosures! Lest you think ... MOREJacob Sullum: Sunlight Slays Secret Snooping
What changed Obama's mind about NSA dragnet? Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last July, Deputy Attorney General James Cole explained why the National Security Agency (NSA) needed to collect everyone's telephone records. "If you're looking for the needle in the haystack," he said, "you have to have the entire haystack to ... MORE Google, DuckDuckGo And Regulation Of Privacy
by Tim Worstall. This piece about DuckDuckGo rather interested me, for it speaks to the
argument that is being had over the regulation of privacy in both the US
and the European Union. And while this isn’t entirely and wholly true
it is in essence: the US has, in my opinion, taken the right view of
that regulation. Leave it, largely, to the ... MOREZach Weissmueller: Oakland vs. Government Surveillance!
Defeating the Domain Awareness Center. "Whether it's going back to the free speech movement, the Black
Panthers, Occupy Oakland... we fight back," says Brian Hofer, an
attorney affiliated with the
Oakland Privacy Working Group, an association of Oakland
residents fighting against the city's proposed
Domain Awareness Center. ... MORERonald Bailey: Thank You, Edward Snowden!
Who betrayed the oath to protect the Constitution? Since November, advertisements featuring the face of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have been wrapped around several city buses roaming the streets and avenues of Washington, D.C. The can't-miss ads featuring whistleblower Snowden's goateed visage cover ... MORENSA Is 'Setting Fire To The Future Of The Internet'
by Ashe Schow. Newest revelation from Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the National Security Agency data collection programs, said Monday the act of mass surveillance is “setting fire to the future of the Internet.” Snowden, speaking via satellite feed (in front of a green-screen
display of the U.S. Constitution) to a ... MOREThe Terrifying Surveillance Case Of Brandon Mayfield
by Matthew Harwood. Nobody is safe from confirmation bias. During a live Web chat in late January, National Security Agency
whistle-blower Edward Snowden explained one of the least discussed
dangers of bulk collection. By indiscriminately sweeping up the call records and the international communications
of Americans, the government ... MORESecret Government Is The Chief Threat To Liberty
by Ronald Bailey. Last Friday, President Obama made a
much anticipated speech at the Department of Justice outlining
his proposed reforms of the National Security Agency’s domestic
surveillance program, with a particular focus on the NSA’s
clandestine collection of the records of essentially every
American’s telephone calls. Yesterday, ... MORE
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