How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust? By Ian Brown.

Experts complain of shoddy tech specs and personal attacks. By Kieren McCarthy.

The social media giant has swallowed up the free press, become an unstoppable private spying operation and undermined democracy. Is it too late to stop it? By Matt Taibbi.

How to poison, obfuscate and purge your facebook data before deleting your account.

Passed as part of the federal spending bill, the law has privacy advocates concerned. By Laura Hautala.

Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the new nominee to direct the NSA, faced questions Thursday from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about how he would lead the spy agency... By David Ruiz, EFF.

Instead of standing up for the American people, the corporate-owned Democrats have strengthened the president. By Lee Camp.

A panel of judges will decide if the public and the press are allowed to come before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to advocate for greater transparency under the First Amendment. By Zoe Tillman.

Normally, details like those disclosed in the 37-page indictment would be classified, not released to the public. By Thomas Frank.

If the Internet is truly such a revolutionary break from the past, why are companies like Google in bed with cops and spies? By Yasha Levine.

The military-industrial complex “is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought,” says the retired US colonel. By Ben Norton.

Devin Nunes is so bad at his job overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies that his memo alleging FISA abuses failed to mention the one way he might have legitimately argued that the Deep State was spying on the Trump campaign. By Marcy Wheeler.

Congress Renews FISA Section 702’s Warrantless Mass Surveillance. By Lisa Elkins.

How can the rhetoric about Trump from Democratic leaders be reconciled with their actions to protect his unchecked power to spy on Americans? By Glenn Greenwald.

Are Amazon and Google doing enough to keep spies out? By Russell Brandom.

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 due to fear. By Patrick G. Eddington. (Jan. 18, 2018)

The crew of The Post celebrates leaking the Pentagon Papers but gets all touchy when Obama's secret surveillance is mentioned. By Nick Gillespie.

The former National Security Agency contractor who exposed U.S. government surveillance programs by disclosing classified material in 2013 has a new job: app developer. Edward Snowden in a video message Friday unveiled a new phone app he helped create, called Haven, that aims to protect laptops from physical tampering.

The NSA leaker's latest project aims to secure your computer—and you—from not just digital but physical attacks.

This is, unfortunately, no surprise at all. It happens every time that a key surveillance provision is set to sunset. Rather than have any real public debate about it… By Mike Masnick.