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Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.
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Is the Web-DRM Proposal Over?
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Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones
The tech giant is compensating US customers and faces similar allegations in the UK.
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The one thing Congress can agree on is violating your privacy
The US government should have the unquestionable authority to spy on its own citizens — in secret, without a warrant, and absent of any semblance of transparency.
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Feds stumbling after Anonymous launches 'Operation Last Resort
The U.S. Department of Justice still has two Federal websites down since Friday when Anonymous launched 'Operation Last Resort' demanding legal reform.
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8 Government Conspiracy Theories (And How They Could Be Right)
Grab your tinfoil hats. It’s time to get paranoid.
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DOJ Memo Outlines Legal Case for Killing American Terrorists
NBC News' Michael Isikoff has his hands on the 16-page white paper that everyone is talking about this morning. It's his scoop, so we'll let him set the stage: A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens...
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That Awful Privacy-Killing CISPA Bill Is Coming Back to Haunt Us
We thought we killed all those awful, horrible destroy the Internet-type bills in SOPA, PIPA and CISPA. We might've been wrong. Like a zombie looking for human blood or a sore loser demanding a rematch...
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Government killing online surveillance bill
Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says the controversial Bill C-30, known as the online surveillance or warrantless wiretapping bill, won't go ahead due to opposition from the public.
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Despite Protests, Congress To Bring Back CISPA Exactly As It Was Last Year
Last week, we told you that CISPA was coming back, and it's now been confirmed that it is coming back tomorrow and it will be identical to the extremely flawed bill that passed the House last year.
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Aaron Swartz files reveal how FBI tracked internet activist
Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright publishes once-classified FBI documents that show extent of agency's investigation into Swartz.
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FBI Declares War on The Scooter Store
Approximately 150 federal and state law enforcement agents launched a massive raid on one of the biggest perpetrators of government fraud in America: The Scooter Store.
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Analysis: The near impossible battle against hackers everywhere
Dire warnings from Washington about a "cyber Pearl Harbor" envision a single surprise strike from a formidable enemy that could destroy power plants nationwide, disable the financial system or cripple the U.S. government.
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You Call This an Army? The Terrifying Shortage of U.S. Cyberwarriors.
When the Soviet Union launched the first satellite in 1957, it set off an intellectual arms race that led to more than $1 billion of federal investment in science education.
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Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers
The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant's customers. That's why it is unlawful for any record-keeper to disclose it has received a so-called National Security Letter.
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Cops argue that U.S. law should require logs of your text messages
Silicon Valley firms and privacy groups want Congress to update a 1986-era electronic privacy law. But if a law enforcement idea set to be presented today gets attached, support for the popular proposal would erode.
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No More Drones for CIA
Three senior officials tell Daniel Klaidman that the Obama administration is poised to shift the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon.
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Mayor Bloomberg says surveillance drones are inevitable in NYC: 'get used to it'
Governmental use of unmanned surveillance drones has inspired a lot of concern about privacy, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks the battle's already over.
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The Police Are Watching Your Google Searches
Google released a transparency report last week that showed that government snooping into your personal data is on the rise.
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RCMP need wiretaps, not just warrants, to search text messages.
Police need special wiretap orders -- not just ordinary search warrants -- to intercept cellphone text messages as part of criminal investigations, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Wednesday.
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