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Privacy tools used by 28% of the online world, research finds
Concern about privacy, combined with frustration over censorship and content blocking, is driving millions of people to use Tor and other anonymity tools, research finds. By Jemima Kiss
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Camouflage from Face Detection
CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection by Adam Harvey
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Snowden-haters are on the wrong side of history
In the autumn on 1963, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, worried at Martin Luther King’s growing influence, began tapping his phones and bugging his hotel rooms. They hoped to discredit him by gaining evidence that he was a communist, but found no such evidence. But they did find evidence that he was having affairs. The FBI gathered what they considered to be the most incriminating clips, and in November 1964 they anonymously sent tapes to him along with a letter telling him to commit suicide
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Edward Snowden ‘fears for his life,’ according to Russian state-run media
The Russian lawyer of Edward Snowden said Tuesday that the fugitive US intelligence leaker has feared for his life since reading of explicit threats against him by unnamed Pentagon officials. “There are real threats to his life out there that actually do exist,” Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Russia’s state-run Vesti 24 rolling news channel. “These statements call for physical reprisal against Edward Snowden,” Kucherena said.
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NSA files: Snowden says 'I acted alone' and rubbishes Russian spy claims
Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said he acted alone in leaking US government secrets and that suggestions by some politicians he might have had help from Russia were "absurd'', the New Yorker magazine reported on Tuesday.
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In a bid to regain trust, Microsoft okays storage of foreign users' data overseas
In the wake of recent NSA leaks, Microsoft's taking the tech road less traveled and committing to protecting foreign users' data by storing it overseas.
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Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End
An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency’s program to collect bulk phone call records has provided only “minimal” benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal and should be shut down. The findings are laid out in a 238-page report, scheduled for release by Thursday and obtained by The New York Times, that represent the first major public statement by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
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The hidden history of the CIA’s prison in Poland
On a cold day in early 2003, two senior CIA officers arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw to pick up a pair of large cardboard boxes. Inside were bundles of cash totaling $15 million that had been flown from Germany via diplomatic pouch.
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Snowden Q&A: What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is answering the Internet’s burning questions. Surprisingly, he was even gracious enough to answer my question: “What’s the worst and most realistic harm from bulk collection of data? Why do you think it outweighs national security?”
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This Is Danny Pearl's Final Story
The author spent a decade chasing her friend's killer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. Then she went to see him at Guantanamo Bay.
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Snowden: 'Not all spying bad' but NSA program 'divorced from reason'
During a live Web chat, NSA whistle-blower/leaker Edward Snowden emphasizes the need for the rule of law. He also strikes, at one point, a tone you might take as conciliatory.
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Apple's Tim Cook: 'There is no backdoor. The government doesn't have access to our servers'
Apple isn't colluding with the NSA to hand over user data and CEO Tim Cook wants you to know that. In fact, Cook feels so strongly about this issue...
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New NSA documents reveal massive data collection from mobile apps
New leaked NSA documents shed a new light on the agency's assault on the data leaked by smartphone apps. By targeting the app configuration data, the NSA and GCHQ are able to pull date ranging from general characteristics like age and ethnicity to specific location based on GPS.
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NSA spying through Angry Birds, Google Maps, leaked documents reportedly reveal
The NSA and its British counterpart are tapping popular smartphone apps such as Angry Birds to peek into the tremendous amounts of very personal data those bits of software collect -- including age, location sex and even sexual preference.
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Let’s Make a Deal With Snowden
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder both signaled last week that they may offer Edward Snowden a plea bargain. This may surprise you—hasn’t the U.S. government accused Snowden of seriously harming national security, and isn’t it clear that he violated the law by disclosing classified information about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs? The answers are yes and yes—but nonetheless the government has good reason to settle with Snowden.
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This Is What Happens When You Come Home To America And Your Name Is Ahmed
It's not easy coming back home to America when your name is Ahmed. I want to look forward to returning home from a trip abroad, but thanks to my name or as the TSA officer put it -- my
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Intelligence Chief Condemns Snowden and Demands Return of Data
The nation’s top intelligence official on Wednesday delivered a scorching attack on Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, and called on him and his “accomplices” to return the trove of classified documents he took from the N.S.A.
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NY congressman threatens reporter at Capitol
Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., is defending his actions after he physically threatened a reporter at the Capitol after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
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NSA spied on Copenhagen UN climate summit – Snowden leak
The US National Security Agency spied on the communications conducted by other governments before and during the 2009 United Nations climate negotiations conference held in Copenhagen, according to a report based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
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Dear America, I Saw You Naked
On Jan. 4, 2010, when my boss saw my letter to the editor in the New York Times, we had a little chat. It was rare for the federal security director at Chicago O’Hare to sit down with her floor-level Transportation Security Administration officers—it usually presaged a termination—and so I was nervous as I settled in across the desk...
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