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Your Porn Is Watching You
“If you are watching porn online in 2015, you should expect that at some point your porn viewing history will be publicly released and attached to your name.”
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CIA Director: We’re Winning the War on Terror, But It Will Never End
Last night, Director of Central Intelligence John Brennan participated in a question-and-answer session at Harvard Kennedy School’s...
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Faith in the party
ARE religions and political movements essentially the same sort of thing, with a common love of hymns, initiation rites and utopian ideals? Gaetano Mosca, one of the fathers of modern political science, thought so. Doubtless he was influenced by the radical political movements of his era—fascism, extreme nationalism and communism, each offering a rival version of paradise—competing for the souls of Europe...
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A Former Medellin Cartel Official Has Been A DEA Informant For 27 Years. Now He Wants Out
After a career on the front lines of the drug war, Carlos Toro is making the biggest gamble of his life....
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How Drug War Surveillance Turned Into Terrorism Surveillance
A USA Today report reveals the massive scope of a DEA surveillance program that goes as far back as 1992, well before the post-9/11 NSA surveillance regime.
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The eeriness of the English countryside
Writers and artists have long been fascinated by the idea of an English eerie - ‘the skull beneath the skin of the countryside’. But for a new generation this has nothing to do with hokey supernaturalism – it’s a cultural and political response to contemporary crises and fears
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As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security
For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue: Should tech companies be obliged to guarantee government access to encrypted data on smartphones and other digital devices, and is that even possible without compromising the security of law-abiding customers?
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The government will hide its surveillance programs. But they won't eliminate them.
Want to see how secrecy is corrosive to democracy? Look no further than a series of explosive investigations by various news organizations this week that show the government hiding surveillance programs purely to prevent a giant public backlash.
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The Things I Carried Back
By John F. Burns
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UAE Gave $1 Million to NYC Police Foundation; Money Aided 'Investigations'
A 2012 tax document obtained by The Intercept and not intended for public disclosure reveals the mystery donation, which neither the police foundation nor the UAE will give details about. The foundation had excluded the UAE from the list of donors on its website, despite it being one of the largest 2012 contributors.
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The NSA wants ‘front door’ access to your encrypted data
The NSA has proposed a new security arrangement that would split a cryptographic key between multiple services. This front-door approach is meant to avoid the security perils of a back door - but it creates plenty of problems of its own.
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No Fly List: Government Offers New Redress Procedures
The government will no longer refuse to confirm or deny that persons who are prevented from boarding commercial aircraft have been placed on the “No Fly List,” and such persons will have new opportunities to challenge the denial of boarding, the Department of Justice announced yesterday in a court filing. Until now, the Government refused to acknowledge...
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NSA and FBI fight to retain spy powers as surveillance law nears expiration
Debate reignites on Capitol Hill as agency representatives secretly meet with members of Congress to address Patriot Act measure
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Do Not Track
Do Not Track, a personalized web series about privacy and the web economy. Directed by Brett Gaylor, coproduced by Upian, Arte, ONF & BR.
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Student Sues College After Campus Cops Demand He Get A Free Speech 'Permit' Before Handing Out Fliers
Hey, budding adults! Welcome to college! Now, kindly shut up for the next few years. Cal Poly Pomona’s campus policies impose a web of restrictions before students can distribute literature on campus: They must check in with the Office...
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Weakened surveillance reform bill is ‘yesterday’s news’, civil libertarians say
The impending USA Freedom Act seeks to stop NSA phone record collection, leaving Section 215 intact, which activists say will only prolong mass surveillance
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Judge: FBI's Ruse to Catch Poker Champ in Vegas Hotel Room Went Too Far
A federal judge in Las Vegas has ruled that FBI agents went too far when they shut off Internet service to a Las Vegas hotel room last summer, then posed as repairmen so they could get a peek into the room without a search warrant.
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$1 Billion TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed as Ineffective “Junk Science”
SPOT, whose techniques were first used in 2003 and formalized in 2007, uses “highly questionable” screening techniques, according to the ACLU complaint, while being “discriminatory, ineffective, pseudo-scientific, and wasteful of taxpayer money.” TSA has spent at least $1 billion on SPOT.
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The end of the license plate
Until recently our auto travels — in public — have been essentially private. That is no longer true. Public and private entities are scanning license plates, snapping photos of our cars, and storing the times and locations where they appear.
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Snowden Coming Closer To Icelandic Citizenship
The changing fortunes of one country's Pirate Party may mean new citizenship for Edward Snowden.
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