By Matthew Guariglia After a long dormant stretch, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has signaled it’s ready to tackle another big review…
By Matthew Guariglia Just as the Trump administration has signaled its interest in a permanent “clean” reauthorization of the Patriot Act’s phone surveillance provision, the…
By Daniel Taylor Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the most memorable character, HAL 9000, having a conversation with David. We are essentially building…
By Derrick Broze Despite a wealth of public information detailing the U.S. government’s secret warrantless mass surveillance programs, a federal judge has blocked a lawsuit,…
By Derrick Broze Even if you disable GPS, deactivate phone location tracking, and turn off your phone, it’s still possible for Google and the NSA…
By Aaron Mackey EFF’s case challenging NSA spying, Jewel v. NSA, has come further than any case trying to end the government’s mass surveillance programs….
By Karen Melton Stewart This is an open letter to the media, but especially the New York Times. I will be addressing your schizophrenic coverage…
By Kevin Gosztola (SP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner was sentenced to five years and three months in prison at a federal courthouse in…
By Michael Maharrey The NSA uses AT&T facilities in at least eight cities to warrantlessly monitor and collect billions of emails, phone calls, and online…
By Rachel Blevins Michigan has become the first state to ban the National Security Agency’s intrusive data collection practices by passing a law that prohibits…
By Gavin Hanson Like it or not, you are your data. In this day and age, your receipts, social media activity, public records, GPS data,…
By Janet Phelan Karen Melton-Stewart, a foreign language intelligence analyst with the Weapons and Space Directorate at the NSA, discovered that the Russians were selling…
With cross-border transactions growing at an incredibly rapid rate, the question of secure payments has become a pressing issue for those who work in the…
By Jon Rappoport I’m reprinting my article from 2013 below. But first, a quick bit of recent history concerning two little known Israeli companies, Narus…
