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How Big Data Could Help Identify the Next Felon - Or Blame the Wrong Guy
While working as the chief privacy officer at Intelius, an online provider of background checks, Jim Adler created software that demonstrates how just a few details about a person could be used to estimate the chances of someone committing a felony. Accurately, he says. Think of it as big data meets "Minority Report."
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I asked the NSA for its file on me, and here's what I got back
When I sent the NSA a formal request through the Freedom of Information Act, the agency acted like I was a total newbie at this stuff.
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Hey, Washington Post: Print that forbidden NSA interview!
The Post gets a huge story, but still allows the government to jerk its reporters around.
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Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service
The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business, rather than agree to some mysterious court order.
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There Is No Such Thing As NSA-Proof Email
Since last June, when Edward Snowden tore the veil off the National Security Agency's vast data dragnet, Americans have been flocking to ultrasecure email services in the hopes of keeping the government out of their private business. Use of the most popular email encryption software, PGP, tripled between June and July, while revenue for the data-encryption company Silent Circle has shot up 400 percent.
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Edward Snowden: My father and his legal team do not speak for me
The man wanted by the United States for leaking details of National Security Agency intelligence gathering says journalists have been misled into printing false claims about his legal situation, The Huffington Post reported Thursday.
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UK officials destroy Guardian hard drives in misguided effort to stop Snowden stories
Officials from the British intelligence agency GCHQ raided The Guardian's offices to destroy hard drives related to the newspaper's stories about National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden — despite the fact that the information had already been disseminated to other sites around the world.
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So What Did The US Government Ask Lavabit to Do?
The recent shutdown of Lavabit’s email services prompted a flurry of reporting and speculation about the extent US Government spying, mostly due to the mysterious statement by Lavabit founder Ladar Levison
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Prosecutor asks judge to give Manning 60 years
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning should spend 60 years in prison because he betrayed the U.S. by giving classified material to WikiLeaks, a prosecutor said Monday.
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Why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files
A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London
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Thailand begins monitoring of Facebook, YouTube and LINE
Thailand will monitor its citizens on popular social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Japanese messaging app LINE.
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Edward Snowden: 21st-century revolutionary icon?
He may not have the romance of Che Guevara, but the whistleblower is a fitting poster hero for our times
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How The NRA Built A Massive Secret Database Of Gun Owners
While the National Rifle Association publicly fights against a national gun registry, the organization has gone to incredible lengths to compile information on "tens of millions" of gun owners..
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FBI Agent: We've Dismantled The Leaders Of Anonymous
The hacker collective Anonymous has not produced as many high-profile cyber attacks as it once did, a drop-off that can be directly attributed to the arrests of the group's core members, an FBI official told The Huffington Post this week. Starting in late 2010, Anonymous captured worldwide attention through a series of attacks against U.S. companies and government agencies, stealing data and defacing or crashing websites.
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NSA & FBI Spied On All Emails In Salt Lake City Before & After The Olympics
For the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, officials say, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and NSA arranged with Qwest Communications International Inc. to use intercept equipment for a period of less than six months around the time of the event. It monitored the content of all email and text communications in the Salt Lake City area.
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White House Picks Panel to Review NSA Programs
A group of veteran security experts and former White House officials has been selected to conduct a full review of U.S. surveillance programs and other secret government efforts disclosed over recent months.
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NSA collected 56,000 emails by Americans a year.
The National Security Agency may have unintentionally collected as many as 56,000 emails of Americans per year between 2008 and 2011 in a program that a secret U.S. court subsequently said may have violated U.S. law and the Constitution, according to documents released on Wednesday.
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Teenage mobile users do worry about privacy
More than half of teens polled say they have rejected certain apps over privacy concerns, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Orders To Destroy Guardian Hard Drives Came Directly From PM David Cameron
More details continue to emerge on the UK government's two recent anti-journalist actions. The Guardian reports that the order to (pointlessly) smash up Guardian hardware came from the top. A spokesman for Clegg made clear that Heywood was...
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Lavabit founder: 'My own tax dollars are being used to spy on me'
Since shuttering his email service, which was used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Ladar Levison has been stuck in a Kafkaesque legal battle – and that's about all he can say
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