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If we lose net neutrality, we lose the Internet
Well, we finally know it’s true. AT&T, Verizon and other communications companies collude with the government to trample our rights to connect and communicate. The National Security Agency leaks have proved that beyond a doubt. But to pawn it all off on the NSA would be a fallacy, too.
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Online privacy is dead
It's getting harder to remain faceless online. Even far-out measures of data encryption are under attack.
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Edward Snowden: I brought no leaked NSA documents to Russia
Edward Snowden, the source of US National Security Agency leaks, has said he left all the leaked documents behind when he flew from Hong Kong to Moscow and there is no chance of them falling into the hands of Russian or Chinese authorities.
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Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims
The French government has summoned the US ambassador in Paris, demanding an explanation about claims that the National Security Agency has been engaged in widespread phone surveillance of French citizens.
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Why the NSA's Defense of Mass Data Collection Makes No Sense
The U.S. intelligence community claims it's not spying on citizens until someone actually looks at the data it collects. That argument is deeply flawed.
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Venezuela moves to build its own NSA
In the eight months since the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, his inheritors have kept faith with his commitment to restricting the speech of critics. On Sept. 30, President Nicolás Maduro signed a decree establishing the “Strategic Center for Security and Protection of the Fatherland,” or CESPPA, which will “coordinate, organize, and elevate our capacity to recognize and overcome, before it happens, any plan against the country.”
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Canadians sue their own government over domestic spying
American privacy advocates aren't the only ones taking their own government to court over domestic spying programs. On Tuesday, Canadian activists announced they were suing Canada's equivalent of the National Security Agency.
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The U.S. is losing its hypocrisy advantage
The U.S.’s private behavior is often starkly at odds with its public ideals. Because the U.S. is the most powerful state in the international system, it’s often able to get away with this. The leaders of other states know that the U.S. is behaving hypocritically, but often find it easier to say nothing about it.
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Website leaking Chinese hotel guest details closed down
Three Chinese characters and a search bar are the only features to be found on the website chakaifang.info. However as internet users throughout China discovered last week, the nondescript website contained detailed records of individual guest bookings at hotels across the nation, including their names, addresses and phone numbers.
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Stop Watching Us: The Video
"Stop Watching Us: The Video" is directed by Brian Knappenberger (We Are Legion: The Story of the Hackivists) and produced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It's pretty powerful, watch it now.
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12 governments that love to spy on their own people
The US is not alone. Here's just a partial list of the other governments that have been caught spying on its own citizens.
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Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday disputed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) claim that the government's phone record collection program is not "surveillance."
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How NSA-Proof Are VPN Providers?
The privacy of Internet users has become an extremely hot topic this year, largely thanks to the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden. This has resulted in many questions from concerned VPN users who want to know more about possible cracked encryption schemes, and how providers respond to gag orders and national security letters. Today we explore these topics with a handful of the leading VPN services.
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Mozilla's new Lightbeam download allows users to track trackers
Mozilla, the open-source software community responsible for the Firefox browser, has released a new download that allows users to identify who’s tracking their Internet movements.
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Anti-NSA rally attracts thousands to march in Washington
Holding signs that said "Stop mass surveillance," "Thank you, Edward Snowden" and "No NSA mass spying," and chanting slogans like "no secret courts," the protesters gathered under a blue sky to hear various speakers. Craig Aaron, head of the group Free Press, said "this isn't about right and left -- it's about right and wrong."
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Top German spy chiefs to go to Washington for talks
Germany is to send its top intelligence chiefs to Washington to "push forward" an investigation into allegations the US spied on its leader Angela Merkel.
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Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with U.S.
U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, according to government officials.
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The Search Giant Just Ended A Bunch Of Free Data And People Are Freaking Out
Late this month, Google went "dark" in terms of providing publishers with one of its major sources of free information on which words led people searching in Google to click on their sites. The move came as Google seeks to reassure users following the NSA/PRISM domestic surveillance scandal.
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Who Has The Right To Know Where Your Phone Has Been?
You probably know, or should know, that your cellphone is tracking your location everywhere you go. But whether law enforcement officials should have access to that data is at the center of a constitutional debate. Matt Blaze, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania, says location tracking is key to how the cell system operates.
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Everybody does it? Russia denies reports that it bugged G-20 goody bag.
Italian newspapers reported today that spy software was found on phone chargers and thumb drives given to attendees of the September G-20 summit, hosted in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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