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Bill C-51 committee hears monologues, but few questions
In the first hour of testimony at Thursday’s review of the government’s anti-terrorism bill, Conservative MPs posed only one question:
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The Orwellian Re-branding of “Mass Surveillance” as Merely “Bulk Collection”
By Glenn Greenwald
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Poll: Government is the number one problem in US
Americans identify their government as the nation's number one problem — worse than the economy or terrorism.
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Here's The Digital Privacy Battle At The Center Of Obama's Big Trade Deal
Open Internet advocates are still fighting for key privacy protections in a major trade pact the Obama administration is negotiating with 11 Pacific nations. But as talks over the deal enter their final stages in Hawaii this week, it looks like an uphill battle -- Internet freedom activists appear to be opposing important traditional allies: major tech companies and even Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)...
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Canadians Come Together To Protest Anti-Terror Bill
Thousands of Canadians came together to loudly denounce the Conservative government's proposed anti-terror legislation in rallies held across the country on Saturday.In a park in Montreal's north end, a few dozen of...
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Swedish authorities to question Julian Assange at embassy
WikiLeaks founder's stalemate may end soon as statute of limitations draws near.
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Edward Snowden issues 'call to arms' for tech companies in secret SXSW meeting
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was a highlight of last year's SXSW, where he gave one of his first public speeches. This year, Snowden was back at SXSW — but only a few people even knew it was happening. Snowden held a streamed question-and-answer session with roughly two dozen people from across the technology and policy world, which participant Sunday Yokubaitis, president of online privacy company Golden Frog, described as a "call to arms"...
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The Intercept, Mass Surveillance and the State
Like a proud father CIA director John Brennan has announced that he’s creating a new directorate to conduct cyberespionage. Never mind all those classified documents published recently by the Intercept which prove that the CIA has been active in the cyber domain for years. While it goes without saying that the CIA’s subversion campaign is unsettling what’s equally thought-provoking is the manner in which the Intercept frames the involvement of the private sector... By Bill Blunden
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These are the silly URLs the NSA uses for cyber espionage
Security researchers this week discovered an NSA cyber espionage program that installs malware in hard drive firmware, making it hard to detect or delete. It's serious stuff, but there's a light side to this story.
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The Coming Death, and Afterlife, of the NSA Spying Law
The Patriot Act provision that authorized mass surveillance on Americans is set to expire, but don’t be fooled: The snooping is likely to continue. In an interview with Truthdig, Sen. Ron Wyden calls ending dragnet surveillance a “big priority.” By Thor Benson
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A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It’s Secret
A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials must sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from saying almost anything about the technology.
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ACLU files new lawsuit over Obama administration drone 'kill list'
Top civil liberties group calls for greater transparency regarding ‘targeted killing program’ and how officials handle possibility of civilian deaths.
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‘Is It Compromised?’ Is the Wrong Question about US Government Funding of Tor
In many ways, the most surprising thing about Yasha Levine’s powerful reporting on US government funding of Tor at Pando Daily has been the response to it. From the trolling attacks and ad hominem insults by apparently respectable, senior digital privacy activists and journalists, to repeated,
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MathBabe: A critique of a review of a book by Bruce Schneier
"I haven’t yet read Bruce Schneier’s new book, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles To Collect Your Data and Control Your World. I plan to in the coming days, while I’m traveling with my kids for spring break. Even so, I already feel capable of critiquing this review of his book,,,"
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French Government Starts Blocking Websites With Views The Gov't Doesn't Like
We had been noting, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, how the country that then held a giant "free speech" rally appeared to be, instead, focusing on cracking down on free speech at every opportunity. And target number one: the internet. Earlier this week, the Interior Minister of France -- with no court review or adversarial process -- ordered five websites to not only be blocked in France, but that anyone who visits any...
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Why the US can't keep track of people killed by police
A year ago, in a bureaucratic shift that went unremarked in the somnolent days before Michael Brown was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, the US government admitted a disturbing failure. The top crime-data experts in Washington had determined that they could not properly count how many Americans die each year at the hands of police. So they stopped.
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"I Might Have Some Sensitive Files": The Strange Saga And Dark Secrets Of Matt DeHart
The government says Matt DeHart is an online child predator. He says that's a ruse created because he discovered shocking CIA secrets and claims he was tortured by federal agents.
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CISA Security Bill: An F for Security But an A+ for Spying
The bill widens the pipe of data companies can send the government, creating a new surveillance system for the intelligence community and domestic law enforcement.
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Canada’s anti-terrorism bill: Let feardom ring
The government gets tougher on terrorists, and tramples liberties.
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Inside New York Times Reporter James Risen's Seven Year Fight Against the Government
Was it a victory for the press, or a disturbing sign of what’s to come for journalists?
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