Featured:
4-3: In New Video, Congressman Explains Why His Fellow Lawmakers Couldn’t Be Trusted with NSA Oversight
4-3: The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network
4-3: Is Big Brother Watching Our Campuses?
4-2: TrueCrypt’s Security Audit Is Finally Done, with (Mostly) Good Results
4-2: Trevor Paglen’s photos put government spying in spotlight
3-31: How to opt out of Verizon’s ‘supercookie’ tracking program
3-31: Tech companies are sending your secrets to crowdsourced armies of low-paid workers
3-27: Periscope’s Future of Citizen Journalism Tested on Its First Day
3-26: Deployment of Controversial Urban Sensor System Aided by Aggressive Lobbying
3-25: As the Snowden leaks began, there was “fear and panic” in Congress
3-26: Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
3-25: More Than 20 States Ask Court to Keep RadioShack From Selling Customers’ Personal Data
3-25: NSA Doesn’t Need to Spy on Your Calls to Learn Your Secrets
3-25: Yahoo rejected only 5 percent of government data requests in United States
3-24: State Laws Start Catching Up to Police Phone Spying
3-24: When your car spies on your mechanic
3-24: Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD
3-23: Stingray snared him, now he helps write rules for surveillance device
3-19: Data and Goliath: Four Ways You Can Protect Yourself From Digital Surveillance
3-12: How Harper’s “anti-terror” bill ends privacy in Canada
Local:
4-2: Court: Investigation Of Public Employees Not Private
4-3: Banning speech close to home
3-23: WaLeg Day 71: Voting rights, marijuana, mental health, drones. . .
Govt:
4-3: NSA’s Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden’s ‘Betrayal’
4-3: DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again
4-2: Snowden, PRISM fallout will cost U.S. tech vendors $47 billion, less than expected
4-2: Lawmaker, ACLU push bill on police license plate readers
4-2: Texas bill would bar gun ownership status in medical record
4-2: The FBI Has Its Own Secret Brand of Malware
4-2: Legislature OKs voluntary REAL ID driver’s licenses
4-2: Snapchat got more than 400 legal requests for user data in 4 months
4-1: How Big Business Is Helping Expand NSA Surveillance, Snowden Be Damned
3-31: LAPD expects to start deploying body cameras this summer
3-31: Supreme Court Rules Government GPS Trackers Can Break Fourth Amendment
3-31: Pentagon Personnel Now Talking on ‘NSA-Proof’ Smartphones
3-30: Group blasts governor over proposed privacy amendments
3-30: Supreme Court questions involuntary human GPS monitoring
3-30: Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum
3-30: NSA Considered Ending Phone Spying Before the Edward Snowden Leaks
3-27: Police body camera bill clears Connecticut committee
3-27: FAA, Anchorage police investigate drone complaints
3-27: This Is How TSA Decides if You Might Be Acting Like a Terrorist
3-26: As crypto wars begin, FBI silently removes sensible advice to encrypt your devices
3-26: Arizona House revives effort to meet REAL ID standards
3-26: Privacy Critics Go 0-2 With Congress’ Cybersecurity Bills
3-26: Google joins Apple, others in calling for spying controls, as Patriot Act vote nears
3-26: Court Accepts DOJ’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim to Protect Shadowy Neocons: a New Low
3-26: FBI Denies Intentionally Deleting Encryption Tips from Its Website
3-25: Amazon’s drone approval obsolete
3-25: California bill requires warrant for stingray use
3-25: Latest Assault on Net Neutrality Launched at Telecom Industry-Funded Think Tank
3-25: PATRIOT Act axed, NSA spying halted … wake up, Neo, it’s just a dream in the US House of Reps
3-25: Wisconsin lawmakers discuss regulation of drones
3-24: Bill would impose privacy restrictions on Nevada drones
3-24: To explain stingrays, local cops cribbed letter pre-written by FBI
3-24: $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As “Junk Science”
3-24: House Panel Tries to Ease Privacy Fears With New Cybersecurity Legislation
3-23: In Congress, New Attention To Student-Privacy Fears
3-22: Key Democrat: Congress Won’t Tackle NSA Reform Before Cybersecurity
3-16: ICE Tells Reporter Its Secretive Drone Program Isn’t Newsworthy
Policy:
4-6: Is Privacy Obsolete?
4-3: When must search engines concede the “right to be forgotten”?
4-2: When Will the NSA Stop Spying on Innocent Americans?
4-2: Getting past the zero-sum game online
4-2: Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery
3-31: Why ‘The Nation’ Is Suing the Federal Government
3029: Acceptance of a semi-public digital life worries some privacy advocates
3-29: Acceptance of a semi-public digital life worries privacy advocates
3-29: Ignorance could be bliss for next generations of business
3-24: How smartphone users are making silly and unsafe choices
Overseas:
4-2: South Korea’s Invasion of Privacy
4-2: Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands
3-31: Encryption is the REAL threat – Head Europlod
3-31: Thanks for the data retention, tech sector
3-31: Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’
3-30: Mexico’s Journalists Grab a Tech Shield as their Fight Against the Establishment Escalates
3-30: Encrypted communication ‘biggest problem’ in tackling terrorism, Europol warns
3-30: New Canadian Counterterrorism Law Threatens Environmental Groups
3-27: Telstra begins preparing for data-retention regime
3-27: Snowden meets Swedish lawmakers in Moscow
3-27: Google Loses Bid to Block U.K. Users’ Breach-of-Privacy Lawsuit
3-27: UN sets up privacy rapporteur role in wake of Snowden leaks
3-26: Inquiry Launched into New Zealand Mass Surveillance
3-26: Australia outlaws warrant canaries
3-26: New data world order: government can read every Australian like an open book
3-25: Connected cars perfect for harvesting personal data, report warns
3-25: Location-tracking resolution not in data-retention Bill scope: Brandis
3-25: Netanyahu’s Spying Denials Contradicted by Secret NSA Documents
3-24: Facebook data privacy case to be heard before European Union court
3-24: A Conversation About Bill C-51: How the Anti-Terrorism Bill Undermines Canadian Privacy
3-23: Documents Reveal Canada’s Secret Hacking Tactics
3-22: UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System
3-19: Why the cookies law wasn’t fully baked – and how to avoid being tracked online
Tech:
4-4: How to stay safe online: CNET’s security checklist
4-3: Keep snapping selfies, says Snapchat: Cops NEVER ask us for ’em
4-3: Facebook suggests more privacy tips for keeping user accounts secure
4-3: Will Smart Clothing Amp Up Your Workout?
4-3: Microsoft Will Remove “Do Not Track” As The Default Setting In Its New Browsers
4-2: TrueCrypt audit shows no evidence of NSA backdoors
4-2: Invizbox (hands-on): Another flawed Tor “privacy” router debuts
4-1: Chevrolet’s 2016 Malibu is smarter, lighter, and keeps tabs on your kids
3-30: AT&T wants $139 a month, or your privacy, for superfast Internet
3-27: AT&T’s plan to watch your Web browsing—and what you can do about it
3-25: Uber To Turn Into a Big Data Company By Selling Location Data
3-23: Roar of Bombers Replaced by Drone Buzz in North Dakota
3-23: Gyroscope Wants To Help You Track Everything About Yourself And Share It With The World
3-23: Cisco SPA300/500 IP Phones Vulnerable To Remote Eavesdropping
3-19: Opera Buys SurfEasy To Add Secure VPN Services To Its Browser Software
Books:
3-31: Data and Goliath, book review: A handbook for the information age
3-30: Book Review: Future Crimes
3-24: ‘We The People Have A Lot Of Work To Do’ Says Schneier In A Must-Read Book On Security And Privacy