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Germany Backs off Treason Charge for Journalists with Leaked Documents
Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas just fired the country’s top prosecutor Harald Range. This came in the wake of a public battle over how Range was handling a treason investigation launched against...
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These Glasses Block Facial Recognition Technology
Facial recognition software is cropping up everywhere, so it was only a matter of time before anti facial recognition tech started to catch up. Naturally, Japan is leading the way. That’s right:...
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Jeb! Bush Thinks We Haven't Given the NSA Enough Power to Spy on Us
He’s trailing an openly misogynistic troll doll in the polls, but Jeb Bush has outdone his opponents in the “slavish praise for the government’s surveillance apparatus” department. Bush thinks we need...
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The NSA Can Keep Tracking Phones After All, Rules Appeals Court
A federal appeals court just took a dump on privacy. They reversed the 2013 trial court decision that called the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection unconstitutional. The ban has been...
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America's Already Building a Wall on the Mexican Border, It's Just Digital
Donald Trump wants to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. But whether you agree with his plan or not, America’s already doing it. The wall just happens to be digital.Read more...
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The FBI Now Needs a Warrant To Use Its Phone-Sniffing Stingray Boxes
Privacy took a blow last week when the NSA got permission to keep operating a massive dragnet . Here’s some better news: As of today, federal agents should have a harder time using Stingrays to spy on...
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Report: Apple Rejected Justice Department Demands for iMessages
The fight between law enforcement and tech companies about encryption and privacy is getting nastier than ever. Read more...
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This Fake Baby Car Seat Is Designed to Help Governments Spy on People
As governments look for new ways to spy on people, the commercial surveillance business is getting creative. One of the weirder offerings: a video and audio recording device hidden inside a baby seat....
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These Anti-Surveillance Cosplayers Are the Best
We’ve got an amazing gallery of cosplay from last weekend’s massive Dragon Con convention, taken from the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Project Secret Identity.Read more...
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No, You Don't Live in a Modern Day Version of The Truman Show, Why Would You...
Stop being silly. You don’t live in a modern day version of The Truman Show. If you did, don’t you think your friends and family would’ve told you by now? The mere idea is absurd.Read more...
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Now Homeland Security Will Also Need a Warrant to Spy on Cellphones Using...
Last month, the Department of Justice announced that investigators would require a warrant to use a tool called a StingRay that mimics a cell tower to spy on phones. There were a few exceptions listed,...
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Catch 22 Déjà Vu: Court Rejects NSA Spying Case for Lack of Proof
Imagine you know your neighbor is spying on you, and you sue them, but your case gets dismissed for lack of evidence. Then a few months later your creepo neighbor gets doxxed and his emails outline his...
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The IRS Is Using the Same Spy Tech as the FBI
Why does the tax man need stealth phone tracking devices ?Read more...
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What Is CISA?
The Senate just passed a cybersecurity bill that won’t do shit to prevent hacks. What it will do is help the government spy on its citizens.Read more...
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Shady Jail Phone Provider Recorded Thousands of Calls to Attorneys: Report
If you’re a detainee making a phone call from jail, there’s a good chance your conversation will be recorded in full, logged with your name, and digitally stored in perpetuity—even if you’re talking to...
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Blaming Encryption for Terrorist Attacks Is a Mistake
We don’t know the specifics of how the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday were carried out. That hasn’t stopped the law enforcement community from shamelessly blaming encryption for helping...
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The NSA Will Finally Kill Its Metadata Snooping Program This Weekend
The National Security Agency is finally shutting down one of its spying programs this weekend. I do not recommend screaming I LOVE ISIS JIHAD into your phone to celebrate. Read more...
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Man Fighting FBI Spying Gag Order Can Finally Speak After 11-Year Court Battle
Over a decade ago, Nicholas Merrill received a National Security Letter from the FBI asking him to turn over a customer’s data. Merrill, who owned a company called Calyx Internet Access, refused to...
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Surprise! The NSA Is Still Spying On You
At midnight on Saturday, the National Security Agency ended one of its most notorious spying programs. This is only a tiny victory. The NSA’s sprawling, inefficient surveillance apparatus is still a...
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IRS Admits to Using the Same Spy Tech as the FBI to Track 37 Phones
Last month, it was alleged that the Internal Revenue Service had been using Stingray devices to track people by scraping their phone metadata. Now, it’s admitted as much—and gone so far as to say that...
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