"The mission is already accomplished." In a message broadcast Wednesday on British television, Edward J. Snowden, the former US security contractor, urged an end to mass surveillance, arguing that the electronic monitoring he has exposed surpasses anything imagined by George Orwell in "1984," a dystopian vision of an ... MORE
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John R. Quain: On Alert For Red-Light Cameras
Strike back against intrusive revenue generators. Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not ... MORE
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NSA Spying Scandal Could Cost U.S. Tech Giants Billions
Privacy invasion bad for business. The National Security Agency spying scandal could cost the top U.S.
tech companies billions of dollars over the next several years,
according to industry experts. In addition to consumer Internet
companies, hardware and cloud-storage giants like IBM, Hewlett-Packard,
and Oracle could suffer ... MORE
VIDEO: Government Is A Little Sensitive About Free Speech
Surprising that shirt maker wasn't charged with passing federal secrets.
NSA Collecting Porn Activity To Discredit "Radicalizers"
by Ed Morrissey. Does the latest NSA revelation
show the agency creating newer and more humane efforts to defuse
potential terrorist situations through discrediting their leaders — or a
dangerous new direction for government snooping? Perhaps this might be a
little bit of both. The NSA collected data on six potential targets
about ... MORE
Local Cops Have NSA-like Spying Powers For Social Media
Little Brother is in your business too. Local law enforcement is getting the kind of technological boost that used to be limited to three-letter agencies, thanks to Web-based software services that mine social media for intelligence. At last month's International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Philadelphia, LexisNexis showed ... MORE
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Silk Road Bust Hints At FBI's New Cybercrime Powers
by Hal Hodson. The biggest drug marketplace on the internet has been busted. The illicit empire of the Silk Road came
crashing down on Wednesday after its founder Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread
Pirate Roberts , was arrested and charged with narcotics trafficking,
money laundering, computer-hacking and attempted murder. He was caught ... MORE
Kentucky ObamaCare Warning: No Expectation Of Privacy
by Elizabeth Harrington. The Kentucky Obamacare marketplace has no “expectation of privacy,”
warning its prospective customers that their information can be
monitored and shared with government bureaucrats. When clicking “let’s get started” on the state-run health insurance marketplace “kynect,” the user is quickly prompted ... MORE
Government Shutdown Or Not, The NSA Is Still Spying
by Gene Healy. Bad news for pandaphiles: The National Zoo's “PandaCam” will go
dark during a government shutdown. However, the federal government’s power to keep an eye on the
American people will continue to grow — it’s an “essential
service,” apparently. Sunday brought yet another revelation from former National
Security Agency ... MORE
Joseph Farah: Drones, Drones Everywhere
Government eyes will be your constant companion. I don’t know what’s more threatening to liberty and privacy – the National Security Agency’s monstrous eavesdropping efforts and satellite surveillance on American citizens or the plans for massive expansion by local, state and federal governments of spying on us from ... MORE
Byron Acohido: Privacy Tools Can Curtail PRSIM Tracking
Surf in a "Cocoon." Powerful privacy tools you can use to curtail how big tech companies — and sometimes the federal government — track your every step on the Internet have been available for years. Thanks to whistle-blower Edward Snowden these privacy tools have emerged from the fringes of the Internet into the limelight. "It's not just the ... MORE
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Many Gov't Agencies Track Your Credit Card Transactions
by Michael Snyder. Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private? If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble. As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions. And in turn, those government agencies share that information with ... MORE
NSA Copies All Internet Data, Creates Dossiers On Users
The extent of government lawlessness is massive. The Associated Press dropped a bombshell report yesterday that claims the NSA's secret Internet spy program Prism is just a small part of a much more "expansive and intrusive" digital spying effort. According to the AP, the NSA copies ALL INTERNET traffic in and out of the United ... MORE
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Sales of '1984' Spike Amid NSA Spying Scandal
by Michael Winter. The revelations about government surveillance have introduced a new generation of readers to Nineteen Eighty-Four, as sales of George Orwell's dystopian classic soar. Sales of the "centennial edition" on Amazon.com had skyrocketed more than 5,800% as of Tuesday night. The novel that introduced the world to the all-seeing, ... MORE
Gene Healy: The Very Real Threat Posed By NSA
"It can't happen here" just did. As a Senate candidate in 2003, Barack Obama called the PATRIOT Act "shoddy and dangerous." Once safely in power, Obama started demonstrating his remarkable capacity for "growing in office" -- expanding federal powers while piously moralizing about their potential abuse. As a senator, he voted to ... MORE
IRS Orders Coffee Trays With Hidden Cameras
Are they spying on themselves? The news is replete with headlines about our government snooping and spying on Americans. We’re all being watched in some way or another. It kind of reminds me of that Simon and Garfunkel song “America,” where he sings, “The man in the gabardine suit is a spy. I said, ‘Be careful; his bowtie is really a camera.’” ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Under NSA's Unblinking Eye
No secrets except for government. Some years ago, when tax simplification was being discussed, a cartoonist came up with the most likely way the IRS would achieve it: a postcard-sized 1040 form consisting of two lines: 1) How much did you make? 2) Send it in. That's comparable to where Americans are headed when it comes to keeping ... MORE
CIA Chief: We'll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher
by Spencer Ackerman. More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the
internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your
light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them. Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an
“Internet of Things” — that is, ... MORE
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