Facebook – the ubiquitous privacy-invading social network – is taking European Commission regulators to court. The Silicon Valley giant is complaining that an EU investigation is invading its pr...
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Today I learned Facebook imports your phone numbers from your mobile phone's address book, sometimes without your knowledge, thus making the private phone numbers of ALL of your contacts (not just yo...
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Former NSA employee Thomas Drake has a wife and 5 sons, one of whom has significant health problems. But, understanding the risks to him and his family, he couldn't remain silent and be complicit in...
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Wait - you're upset because the government promised you something and then did the exact opposite? This is government's modus operandi - why all the fuss? Look, just vote for the other party next tim...
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In his prophetic novel 1984, George Orwell described a facecrime: "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smalles...
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The statist argument is always the same: "If you have nothing to hide, why do you care?" The government can attach a GPS device to your car and monitor your movements, and it's perfectly legal. And n...
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Activision Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft, is changing its policy to require forum posters to use their real names. They claim it is to cut down on nasty behavior in the forums and to creat...
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Sure, blame it on women and children.
FTA: "Every Google web search could be stored for up to two years under a controversial new EU plan that has the backing of more than 300 Euro-MEPs... The dec...
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It's a rope-a-dope. Don't you, for a minute, believe this is about porn and protecting children. Porn is the cover - what do you think they are really after?
FTA: "Customs and immigration officers...
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FTA: "...14 privacy groups filed a unfair-trade complaint with the FTC against Facebook on Wednesday... Facebook thinks that your notions of privacy - meaning your ability to control information abou...
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School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
School-sanctioned privacy intrusion? "Schools are only interested in a child's best interests" claim those who ignore knowledge...
Samsung has confirmed that its "smart TV" sets are listening to customers' every word, and the company is warning customers not to speak about personal information while near the TV sets.
The...
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Cook County (Illinois) Sheriff Tom Dart wrote in letters to Visa and MasterCard that it is “increasingly indefensible for any corporation to continue to willfully play a central role in an...
Never did I expect to write a screed with that as the title. But principles must be defended even when the actors are evil.
First things first: however reluctantly, I admit to using Google for som...
Today, valME.io joins Fight for the Future with its efforts to end mass surveillance.
Congress: this is a blackout. We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws.
You have...
“The statue pays homage to three who said no to war, to the lies that lead to war and to the intrusion into private life that helps to perpetuate war,” said Dormino, the artworks creator.
Be...
As a result of their activism, Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum, and Laura Poitras have become three of the most justifiably paranoid people in the world. Long live Tor.
But... I love America!
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(Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color las...
Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In thi...
Citizenfour is a 2014 award-winning documentary film directed by Laura Poitras concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal:
CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras' riveting documentary ab...
While the BitTorrent ecosystem is filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology have released the first version of their anonymous and decentralized BitTorrent ne...
The process by which the progressive mindset causes increases in the size, scope and power of government never ceases. Robert Wenzel, a leading Liberty Movement blogger, posted a list of things th...
Per two statutes, 14 U.S.C. § 89(a)2 and 19 U.S.C. §1581(a), the US Coast Guard has virtually unlimited authority to stop, board, and search vessels without any suspicion of wrongdoing. No...
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney, one of the highest-l...
Brilliant response from Niklas Femerstrand to Google's attempt to recruit him.
Uhm, is there a question here?
Don’t get us wrong: we think reddit is awesome. They were one of our inspirations. We are supportive of their technology, their business model, their goals, their...
We do (and we couldn’t prevent it anyway, even if we wanted). However, what we do not allow is using multiple accounts to perpetrate fraud.
We don’t have any problem if you want to have differ...
Can’t we all just get along?
So you have a small running group in San Francisco and want a community where you can motivate each other by posting personal running times, routes, and progress. Yo...
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As we indicated in the user agreement, we're leveraging what reddit put together as it seems reasonable (not to mention it served as a guide for the way we built valME). Your privacy is genuinely...
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We didn’t have enough money to hire a lawyer to write our user agreement. Besides, we’re not fond of lawyers as the majority of them seem to cause more problems than they’re worth...
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