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Stop Spying on Santa! Reform Privacy Law

The Center for Democracy & Technology is a champion of global online civil liberties and human rights, dedicated to driving policy outcomes that keep the Internet open, innovative and free. To the...

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‘I Think A Lot Of The Privacy People Don’t Understand That We Still Occupy...

From NRO’s The Corner, Betsy Woodruff  writes:  Dianne Feinstein decried NSA critics on Meet the Press this morning, saying the government is much less intrusive than corporations and that privacy...

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No Snooping: Supreme Court Bans Warrantless Cell Phone Searches, Updates...

Major ruling updates privacy laws for 21st century For the Washington Times, Stephen Dina writes: The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot go snooping through people’s cell phones without a...

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The Private Self(ie)

Originally posted on TIME:Since the Jennifer Lawrence photo hack, Internet security has come under scrutiny. But why do many young women feel the need to take and share nude selfies in the first place?...

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Pop-Mech Auto-Focus: Now That Cars Have Black Boxes, Am I Being Tracked?

Who gets access to the info in your vehicle’s event data recorder? A black box, formally known as an event data recorder (EDR), and informally known as a narc-in-the-box, logs a variety of data...

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The FBI and NSA Hate Apple’s Plan to Keep Your iPhone Data Secret

Originally posted on TIME:Apple released the iPhone 6 with a new, powerful encryption setting that should make it much harder for law enforcement and surveillance groups like the FBI and the NSA from...

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Judge Rules Suspect Can Be Required To Unlock Phone With Fingerprint

Apple and Google have taken steps recently to let users protect information stored on smartphones – even from law enforcement. It turns out there may be a fingerprint-sized gap in that plan. A Virginia...

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Court Documents Reveal DEA Secretly Tracked Americans’ Calls for Over a Decade

Washington TimesFiled under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, U.S. News Tagged: Civil Rights, DEA, Fourth Amendment, Law Enforcement, Privacy, Surveillance, Twitter, Washington Times,...

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Congress Passes NSA Phone-Records Bill

  The final vote divided Senate Republicans, with 23 voting ‘yes’ and 30 voting ‘no,’ and senators seeking re-election in 2016 split on the issue WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress approved sweeping changes...

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Bonesteel v. City of Seattle: Pacific Legal Foundation Sues Seattle...

“A person has a legitimate expectation that the contents of his or her garbage cans will remain private and free from government inspection.” PLF sued the City of Seattle this morning in Bonesteel v....

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The Real Privacy Problem

For MIT Technology Review,  Evgeny Morozov  writes:  In 1967, The Public Interest, then a leading venue for highbrow policy debate, published a provocative essay by Paul Baran, one of the fathers of...

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Another Internet Privacy Company Ends Service To Avoid Government Surveillance

J.D. Tuccille writes:  Remember Lavabit and Silent Circle, the encrypted email providers that closed their doors because they faced government pressure to enable government snooping on their customers...

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CHILL: Inside America’s Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy,...

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The NSA Wants a Skeleton Key to Everyone’s Encrypted Data 

Encryption can protect personal data from government intrusion, which means the government wants the key to break it. Gavin Hanson reports: Like it or not, you are your data. In this day and age, your...

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