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One in Three Americans Hide Data From Government

by J.D. Tucille.    And you should too. My cell phone is encrypted. It also contains two apps—TextSecure and RedPhone—for conducting secure communications. All I really need in addition is something worth keeping secret, unless a few notes for articles and photographs of my kid and my dogs make the cut. Still, it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to    ... MORE

Holding Data Hostage: The Perfect Internet Crime?

by Tom Simonite. Every so often someone invents a new way of making money on the Internet that earns wild profits, attracts countless imitators, and reshapes what it means to be online. Unfortunately, such a shift took place last year in the world of online crime, with the establishment of sophisticated malicious software known as ransomware as a    ... MORE

Healthcare.gov Shares Your Personal Data With Marketers

by Rob Hustle.    HealthCare.gov is sharing your private personal health data with over a dozen online marketing companies. These companies provide tools that allow HealthCare.gov to track, analyze and record anyone who visits the site. But, despite its promise that “no personally identifiable information is collected by these tools,” the     ... MORE

Over 700 Million People Taking Steps to Avoid NSA Snoops

by Bruce Schneier.    The Snowden effect. There's a new international survey on Internet security and trust, of "23,376 Internet users in 24 countries," including "Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea,    ... MORE

David Kravets: NSA Warrantless Bulk Phone Metadata Spying Continues Unabated Despite Obama's Pledge

Snooping against Americans reauthorized.    The NSA's bulk phone metadata spying program was renewed for another 90 days, the fourth time the warrantless snooping has been reauthorized following President Barack Obama promising reform last January, the government said Monday. That means the nation's telecoms will continue    ... MORE

If You Like Your Internet, You Can Keep Your Internet

What Comcast and Time Warner paid Obama to do.        The principle of net neutrality is easy to understand and support; to treat the delivery all data equally. This has been the status quo. Works great. Few oppose that, but supporting the principle of net neutrality is not the same thing as supporting the government's plan to enforce that   ... MORE

Laziness At The Expense Of Privacy And Freedom

by Leon Spencer.       John McAfee calls out Google and our own laziness. Computer antivirus software developer John McAfee made a surprise appearance at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas over the weekend, where he spoke about the "eroded nature of privacy in our lives today". McAfee, founder of the antivirus software company   ... MORE

These White Boxes Could Track Your Every Move

by Paul Detrick.            In fall 2013, Seattle, WA, residents noticed mysterious white boxes installed on street corners throughout downtown Seattle. Their interest only grew when curious WiFi networks with the names of those street corners began to pop up on their mobile phones as available networks to connect to. The boxes and WiFi turned out  ... MORE

Only 18 Confirmed US Flu Deaths In 2001. What?!

by Jon Rappoport.       What happened to the "36,000 die from flu every year" bit. It’s always interesting when official agencies’ statistics come back to bite them. Hard. In December of 2005, the British Medical Journal (BMJ online) published a shocking report by Peter Dosh, which created tremors through the halls of the Centers for Disease   ... MORE

Michael J. Hurd: Chris Christie Vs. The Constitution

Christie has unlimited faith in unlimited government.    New Jersey Governor Chris Christie condemns those who attack the National Security Agency (NSA) for gathering private phone and Internet data from Americans. His attack takes it for granted that such policies make Americans safer from terrorism than they otherwise would be.    ... MORE

Wary Of Tracking, Users Flock To DuckDuckGo

by Nidhi Subbaraman.     First news of the government's Web tracking program PRISM broke late last Thursday, and by Friday, traffic at the indie search engine DuckDuckGo was on the upswing. The tagline on its homepage: "Search anonymously." "You could notice the difference almost immediately," Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo's founder    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Abstract Immigrants

One to ignore the facts of life.     One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are discussed. A hundred years ago, the immigration controversies of that era were discussed in the context of innumerable facts about particular immigrant groups. Many of those facts were published in a huge, multi-volume 1911 study     ... MORE

Half The Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong

by Ronald Bailey.     Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar masses. In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts     ... MORE

How Much Taxation Would Fund Current Spending?

by Justin Hohn.  To best understand this spending aspect of the current budget negotiations in Washington, we must answer one crucial question: how much taxation on the top income-earners would be required to fully fund the present level of government spending? To do so, we must first make the unreasonable assumption that the rich will not respond  ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: True Drone Lies

Superheroes often live double lives.  But so do super-villains. For four years, the Obama administration has been living a double-life regarding drones. Publicly, the president and his leadership tell us they are using drones to protect our borders and promote national security. The administration dismisses challenges to its drone policies as   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Big Lies In Politics

A throwback to a Nazi philosophy.    It was either Adolf Hitler or his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, who said that the people will believe any lie, if it is big enough and told often enough, loud enough. Although the Nazis were defeated in World War II, this part of their philosophy survives triumphantly to this day among politicians, and nowhere more  ... MORE