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Apple will no longer unlock most iPhones, iPads for police, even with search warrants
New operating system makes it impossible for company to comply with requests for data on devices.
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When the Government Wanted a Database of Everyone's IQ
Today people worry about NSA spying. Fifty years ago it was intelligence tests. The conversation hasn't changed.
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Egypt Begins Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype On Unprecedented Scale
Egyptians’ online communications are now being monitored by the sister company of an American cybersecurity firm, giving the Egyptian government an unprecedented ability to comb through data from Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among others.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Eyes Edward Snowden Role in Oliver Stone Movie
Oliver Stone seems to have found the man to play NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in his next pic “The Snowden Files.” Sources tell Variety that Stone has offered the part to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and that the actor has agreed to do it. Though negotiations have not yet begun, both sides want the deal to happen. Stone is writing and directing and will produce with Eric Kopeloff and Moritz Borman.
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Twitter Sues the Government for Violating Its First Amendment Rights
Twitter just sued the federal government over restrictions the government places on how much the company can disclose about surveillance requests it receives. For months, Twitter has tried to negotiate with the government to expand the kind of information that it and other companies are allowed to disclose.
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Apple's iPhone Encryption Is a Godsend, Even if Cops Hate It
It took the upheaval of the Edward Snowden revelations to make clear to everyone that we need protection from snooping, governmental and otherwise. Snowden illustrated the capabilities of determined spies, and said what security experts have preached for years: Strong encryption of our data is a basic necessity, not a luxury.
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NSA Says Secrets It Leaked To The Press Are Too Secret To Be Disclosed Publicly
Steven Aftergood of FAS Secrecy News went searching for an answer to an almost-unanswerable conundrum. And he got the most nonanswer-like answer imaginable.
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Edward Snowden Doc 'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower
A second National Security Agency whistleblower exists within the ranks of government intelligence. That bombshell comes toward the end of Citizenfour, a new documentary from filmmaker Laura Poitras about NSA informant Edward Snowden that had its world premiere on Friday at the New York Film Festival.
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The FBI's secret surveillance weapon comes under fire in court
A critical legal battle for one of the most controversial tools in U.S. law enforcement’s arsenal has begun. On Wednesday, a panel of three appellate court judges heard opening arguments over a case concerning the use of national security letters (NSL), the use of which was effectively ruled unconstitutional in 2013.
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Millions of Voiceprints Quietly Being Harvested
Over the telephone, in jail and online, a new digital bounty is being harvested: the human voice. Businesses and governments around the world increasingly are turning to voice biometrics, or voiceprints, to pay pensions, collect taxes, track criminals and replace passwords.
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These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks
Edward Snowden's first emails as Citzenfour to Laura Poitras are a piece of history in themselves. With Poitras' permission, WIRED reveals excerpts.
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Edward Snowden: state surveillance in Britain has no limits
The UK authorities are operating a surveillance system where “anything goes” and their interceptions are more intrusive to people’s privacy than has been seen in the US, Edward Snowden said.
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Mysterious US Space Plane Returns
An unmanned US plane on a top-secret, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California.
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Top U.N official suggests NSA mass online surveillance violates human rights
A top United Nations human rights official released a report Wednesday that blasts the United States’ mass surveillance programs for potentially violating human rights on a worldwide scale.
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Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon.
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Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny.
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Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny.
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CBC "stonewalled" Snowden story, says Greenwald
Last Tuesday evening at CBC's Toronto headquarters, CBC News editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire played host to maverick reporter Glenn Greenwald. Shortly after her introductory remarks to a crowd of journalists at Glenn Gould Studio, former CBC News content director David Walmsley (now editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail) sat down with Greenwald for an admiring interview about journalistic bravery, exposing State surveillance and standing up to government pressure. A standing ovation followed.
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I’m Terrified of My New TV: Why I’m Scared to Turn This Thing On — And You’d Be, Too | Brennan Center for Justice
The Brennan Center for Justice is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice.
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Nobody counts police killings in the U.S.
Federal, state and local agencies license police officers to kill, if necessary, but nobody counts all the bodies or tracks what, if any, consequences might follow. The numbers that do exist are hardly complete. The nation’s approximately 18,000 police agencies are expected to submit specified categories of crime statistics every year to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program. But inclusion of justifiable homicides is optional.
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