by Andy Greenberg. One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It’s possible, user privacy groups and a growing industry of crypto-focused companies tell us, to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping ... MORE
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How To Anonymize Everything You Do Online
by Andy Greenberg. One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It’s possible, user privacy groups and a growing industry of crypto-focused companies tell us, to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping ... MOREChild Molestation If Done By Private Individual: Ten-Year- Old Girl Gets 2-Minute TSA Patdown Over Juice Pouch
by Morgan Cook. A Capri Sun juice pouch mistakenly left in a 10-year-old San Diego girl’s carry-on handbag led a TSA agent to subject the girl to almost two minutes of frisking and extra screening that lasted about an hour, her father said. Liquids exceeding 3 ounces are not allowed in carry-on bags, for fear they might contain explosives, but the ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: What’s In Store For Freedom In 2016?
You might want to sit down for this. As I illustrate in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People,
we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the
same set of circumstances over and over again: egregious surveillance,
strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Puzzling Persistence Of Pee Tests
A favorite tactic of control freaks. Slate columnist Daniel Engber, who was recently "shocked" to discover that workplace drug testing is still a thing, wonders: What's up with that? He finds, as I did back in 2002, that there's little evidence drug testing is a sound investment for employers: As was the case 30 years ago, testing has no solid base of evidence, ... MORETSA Makes It Harder For Passengers To Avoid 'Virtual Strip Search' Scanners Just In Time For The Christmas Rush
by Wills Robinson. Air travelers will find it harder to avoid body scanners after airport security protocols were quietly ramped up. The six million Americans who are expected to take to the skies over Christmas could face delays after the Transport Security Administration (TSA) tweaked guidelines so passengers will have to go through the ... MOREThe Government Wants Access To Your Smartphone
by Christie Smythe. What you should know. “We’re not at war – we care about the same things,” FBI Director James Comey says of the struggle between the U.S. and the tech sector over how private your smartphone should be. The government wants to work with companies such as Apple Inc. and Google to stop criminals and terrorists ... MORENSA Phone-Snooping Program Didn’t Prevent Any Attacks
By David Sherfinski. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said Monday that the NSA’s phone-snooping program didn’t catch any terrorists or prevented any attacks, breaking from several of his 2016 GOP presidential rivals, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who have described the program as an effective tool in the fight against terrorism. “There will ... MORERobert Hackett: No, NSA Phone Spying Has Not Ended
Only the framework changed. Plenty of surveillance going on. At 11:59 P.M. on Saturday night, the U.S. National Security Agency
supposedly yanked the cord on its bulk telephone records collection,
thereby ending an expansive surveillance program that the nation’s
intelligence community put in place in the wake of the September 11, ... MORETSA Screens Holiday Travelers Once Again, With Feeling
by James Bovard. Flyers must surrender privacy along with boarding passes. If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. TSA is one of the biggest hassles many Americans will encounter this holiday season. I learned that firsthand while flying home from ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Paris And Freedom
Our liberties are NOT the problem. The tragedy in Paris last Friday has regrettably been employed as a catalyst for renewed calls by governments in western Europe and even in the United States for more curtailment of personal liberties. Those who accept the trade of liberty for safety have argued in favor of less liberty. They want ... MOREWatch The Amazing 'Love Gov' Series
See all five episodes. Love Gov portrays the federal government as an
overbearing boyfriend — Scott “Gov” Govinsky — who foists his “good
intentions” on a hapless, idealistic college student, Alexis. Each
episode follows Alexis's relationship with Gov as his intrusions wreak
(comic) havoc on her life, professionally, financially, and socially.
Alexis's loyal ... MOREIRS Possessed Stingray Cellphone Surveillance Gear - Why?
by Nicky Woolf and William Green. 13th federal agency to use secretive dragnet! The Internal Revenue Service is the latest in a growing list of US federal agencies known to have possessed the sophisticated cellphone dragnet equipment known as Stingray, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. Invoices obtained following a request ... MOREEvan Schuman: Turn That Old Phone Into A Privacy Device
New way to safeguard calls. Most forms of communication used by enterprises these days are highly prone to being intercepted, whether by law enforcement, cyberthieves, corporate spies, or wayward employees and contractors. That leaves enterprise IT open to new approaches to safeguard communications. I just saw one creative idea on the ... MORECharles P. Pierce: The Senate's New 'Give The NSA All Your Private Information' Bill Would Make George Orwell Blush
Scare tactics push big government agenda forward. While nobody was watching, the Senate a couple of days ago passed
something called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which
passed at least partly because if you say "Cyber warfare,
boogedy-boogedy!" around nervous legislators these days, they'll pass a
bill agreeing to ... MOREHow Jeb Bush Would Destroy The Internet & Your Privacy
by Trevor Timm. Do you want to live in a country where Internet Service Providers can slow down and censor your internet traffic at will, where the NSA has vastly more power than it does today and where end-to-end encryption may be illegal? Then Jeb Bush is the Republican presidential contender for you: he has positioned himself ... MORENorth Carolina Teen Prosecuted For Taking Naked Selfie
by Tara Culp-Ressler. Gov't figures a little prison time should fix him. A 17-year-old in North Carolina struck a plea deal last week to avoid serving jail time on felony sex offender charges. His crime? Taking a nude photo of himself. The photo in question was discovered when the teenager’s cell phone was searched during a wider investigation ... MORE
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