The US Justice Department is being sued after failing to adhere to Freedom of Information Act requests for documents on…
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By Michael Kelley U.S. courts will soon decide whether Americans can have the expectation of privacy over their DNA, reports…
By: Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a…
By Nadim Kobeissi I’ve recently been using the final, Released to Manufacturing version of Windows 8 on one of my…
By David Rosen We’ve come a long way since the 1880s when Sir Francis Galton, a British anthropologist and a…
In just a few days, two schools in San Antonio, Texas, are planning to begin tracking and monitoring over 4,000…
By Michael Kelley National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney explains how the secretive agency run its pervasive domestic spying apparatus in…
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Why Orwell Matters is the title of a book published some years ago by my much-lamented if…
Here’s a predicament: you don’t want the government using high-tech face scanning technology to track every inch of your walk…
By Zack Whittaker A new bill designed to require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before collecting any GPS or…
Lesson one: Web browsers I recommend first of all that no one should use internet explorer. Ever. I’m skeptical of…
By Mike Ludwig Truthout Should police and the government be able to track you by your cell phone GPS without…
A software engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that when he visited Disneyland, and went on…
Now this should be alarming to everyone with the Facebook application installed! What are these people thinking at Facebook? Well…
Scientists employed by the Walt Disney Company have developed technology that allows them to replicate, with near perfect accuracy, the…
Tiburon, a tiny but wealthy town just northeast of the Golden Gate Bridge, has an uncommon distinction: it was one…
By Jon Brodkin German data protection officials today accused Facebook of “illegally compiling a vast photo database of users without…
By Graeme McMillan Warrantless cell-phone tracking by the authorities is, apparently, entirely legal in parts of the U.S. thanks to…