The Privacy Threat From Always-On Microphones Like the Amazon Echo

New Documents Reveal Government Effort to Impose Secrecy on Encryption Company

Police escalate social media surveillance software; activists in crosshairs

Police Accidentally Record Conspiring to Fabricate Charges Against Protestor

To the Government, Your Latest Facebook Rant Is Raw Intel

ACLU obtained documents under the FOIA that reveal 63 other instances where Apple—and Google—were ordered to help unlock phones

One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent

Does the FBI Really Even Need Apple’s Help?

A Campaign to #TakeCTRL of Our Privacy Sweeps the Nation (And You Thought Bipartisanship Was Dead)

Law Enforcement is Using a 226-Year-Old Law to Force Tech Companies to Unlock Mobile Phones

A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted

Congress Working in the Dark on Cybersecurity Bill: With a sweeping cybersecurity "information sharing" bill expected to become law next year, passed in haste and against strong opposition of the privacy and civil liberties community, the ACLU filed a lawsuit today to uncover what it will authorize

Out of the Darkness: How two psychologists and CIA devised torture program

China’s Nightmarish Citizen Scores Are a Warning for Americans

Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspicions

Shotspotter CEO Answers Questions on Gunshot Detectors in Cities

FBI Slow-Walking Toward End of Illegitimate Stingray Secrecy

When Does Your Google Search Become a Crime?

The Internet of Kafkaesque Things

Cell Phone Records Can Show Where You Sleep and Where You Pray

The NSA Has Taken Over the Internet Backbone. We're Suing to Get it Back.

Judge to Government: 'National Security' Isn't a 'Magic Word' That Allows Constitutional Rights Violations

Ignore the Drumbeat of Doom, the NSA’s Call Records Program Didn’t Stop a Single Terrorist Attack

CISA Isn't About Cybersecurity, It's About Surveillance: CISA would allow the government to use private information, obtained from companies on a voluntary basis (and so without a warrant) in criminal proceedings – including going after leakers under the Espionage Act

I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure

New NSA Documents Shine More Light into Black Box of Executive Order 12333: In the NSA's own words, EO 12333 is "the primary source of the NSA's foreign intelligence-gathering authority."

ACLU: "Director Comey is wrong in asserting that law enforcement cannot do its job while respecting Americans’ privacy rights

"The Obama administration has secured 526 months of prison time for national security leakers, versus only 24 months total jail time for everyone else since the American Revolution"

An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I Took a Picture of This

ACLU: Beware the Dangers of Congress’ Latest Cybersecurity Bill [Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014]

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