Shoppers are walking around with little homing devices in their pockets, better known as smartphones. Retailers like Nordstrom love the idea of using the phones to track your movement as you… Read more »
Burner phones provide a cheap, disposable tool to hide your communications — it will be no surprise that spy services are taking an interest in them. Read more »
Tired of all the grim news about NSA and eroding civil liberties. A Brooklyn-based outfit has introduced a bit of fun into the process, recounting the NSA scandal to the tune… Read more »
Yahoo has joined Microsoft and Google in suing to reveal the number of surveillance requests it receives. Unfortunately, the lawsuit was filed in a secret court which remains a black hole… Read more »
America’s intelligence czar says his office will for the first time publish a transparency report, in part similar to the ones issued by tech companies, that will show how often the… Read more »
Five years ago, Yahoo lost a challenge to the federal government’s demands to impose surveillance technology. In September, we will find out what happened. Read more »
Many of America’s controversial surveillance activities are “legal” because they are approved by a secret court. Critics, including its own judges, have called for reform – but the problem won’t be… Read more »
Online activists hope to use Congress’ power of the purse to remove funding from domestic surveillance; they are rallying behind an amendment set for a vote on Tuesday. Read more »
An unusually broad coalition of tech companies, investors and civil liberties groups published an open letter to the government to change the Patriot Act. Read more »