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Lawmakers approve a variation of the phone-records spy program Snowden revealed.
It was great to read this Edward Snowden New York Times op-ed—great because the piece is as thoughtful and informative as you’d expect, and even better because it’s an example of Snowden’s continuing ability to raise awareness of the dangers of an unchecked surveillance state. In fact, Snowden has …
Senate failure means NSA surveillance tools evaporated at midnight. But for how long?
‘Librarians were the original search engine’ and long before Edward Snowden, thousands campaigned against the government violating privacy rights
Your local library is on the front lines against government surveillance.
WHAT THE WHAT.
Nearly two years after Snowden's revelations, 87% of Americans say they have heard about U.S. surveillance programs. Among them, 25% say they have changed their own technological behaviors in some way.
Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is filing suit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the United States. The lawsuit challenges the NSA’s mass surveillanc…
By using American companies for surveillance, the NSA may get them banned from world markets
We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance. The entity that’s conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world’s communications—the National
How a church, terror suspects, and some lawyers are pushing privacy on the legal front.
If you don’t follow NSA news obsessively, you might have missed yesterday’s massive Snowden document dump from Der Spiegel. The documents provide a great deal of insight into how the NSA brea…
Google is not among the companies directly backing Microsoft in its fight over foreign data privacy.
A new study finds that a vast majority of Americans trust neither the government nor tech companies with their personal data.
A majority of Americans feel that their privacy is being challenged along such core dimensions as the security of their personal information and their ability to retain confidentiality.
How librarians became one of the loudest voices in the surveillance debate.
Thanks to a Dutch man who volunteered to let researchers snoop on his mobile phone, we now have a glimpse of the type of information that can be squeezed from what officials would have us believe i…
Unsealed documents detail firm’s unsuccessful bid to keep personal information away from feds.