Court approves warrantless cellphone tracking. Last month the New Jersey Supreme Court
ruled that police generally need a warrant to obtain
information about the locations of cellphone users. Last week the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
said just the opposite. The first
decision was based on Article I, Paragraph 7 of the New ... MORE
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Jacob Sullum: You Phone Is A Pocket Rat
Court approves warrantless cellphone tracking. Last month the New Jersey Supreme Court
ruled that police generally need a warrant to obtain
information about the locations of cellphone users. Last week the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
said just the opposite. The first
decision was based on Article I, Paragraph 7 of the New ... MOREMike Flynn: Congress To Vote On NSA Spying
Is the GOP listening to the American people? The House is considering the Defense Appropriations bill and conservatives in the House are insisting on votes dealing with National Security Agency (NSA) spying, aid to the military government in Egypt and aid to Syrian opposition groups. According to Politico,
Rep. Justin Amash ... MOREDuckDuckGo, PRISM And The New Business Of Privacy
by Ricardo Bilton. One the most valuable things in the world right now is your data. For Facebook and Google, your data is a window into your soul, your interests, and your buying habits. It’s how they can convince advertisers that giving them money makes sense. It’s how they’ve gotten rich. But the rise of data companies has also given birth to more ... MOREObamaCare Database Worse Than NSA Snooping
by James S. Robbins. Would you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won’t have any choice. As the Obamacare train-wreck begins to gather steam, there is increasing concern in Congress over something called the ... MOREDaniel J. Flynn: The Real Creepy-Ass Crackers
A society of exhibitionists invites a government of voyeurs. If Americans were honest, we would change our national anthem from Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner” to Rockwell’s 1984 hit “Somebody’s Watching Me.” The lyric “can the people on TV see me” surely fits America 2013 better than a dated 1814 reference to “the land of the free.” ... MOREBen O'Neill: Internet Fascism And The Surveillance State
It's not about keeping us safe. What is the purpose of telecommunication and internet surveillance? The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues, claiming that the programs are needed to counter terrorist attacks. Bald assertions of plots foiled are intended to bolster this claim. However, ... MORE
Government Keeps Track Of Everywhere You're Driving
On the deployment of automated scanners. Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong. Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digital ... MOREByron 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 ... MOREU.S. Postal Service Is Tracking All Mail Sent Within Country
Just like the NSA's PRISM spying. Federal officials have been tracking all mail sent through the United States Postal Service for well over a decade, but have been monitoring select pieces of mail for over a century. Using a pair of systems that snap images of envelopes and catalogue them into batches, the federal government tracks all ... MOREMany 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 ... MOREMax Frankel: Where Did Our 'Inalienable Rights' Go?
from the New York Times. NOW that we sense the magnitude of our government’s effort to track Americans’ telephone and Internet transactions, the issue finally and fully before us is not how we balance personal privacy with police efficiency. We have long since surrendered a record of our curiosities and fantasies to Google. We have ... MORENSA 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 ... MOREWary 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 ... MOREShane Clark: Are You Willing To Die For Your Freedom?
Massive loss in freedom vs. minimal gain in security. Before we even got the whole picture detailing exactly how widespread the government's phone tracking efforts were, we were hit with news of the NSA PRISM program. The details are still being uncovered and debates and questions concerning both programs abound, but the most ... MORESales 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, ... MOREGene 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 ... MOREIRS Seizes 60 Million Medical Records Without A Warrant
Think twice about what you tell the doctor. As we are being swamped with evidence of Administration wrongdoing, we should not forget to prioritize the vast amount of information we are getting. It is beyond peradventure of doubt at this time that the IRS, ordered to scrutinize the tea party closely by Democratic leaders, including ... MOREFBI Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 'Very Common'
Can you hear me now? FBI
investigators for at least five years have routinely used a
sophisticated cellphone tracking tool that can pinpoint callers’
locations and listen to their conversations — all without getting a
warrant for it, a federal court was told this week. The use of the “Stingray,” as the tool is called, “is a very common practice” by ... MORE
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