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Privacy & Tech
Rand Paul Confirms Warrantless Surveillance on Americans is Happening
The NSA wiretaps foreigners — as it should — but it’s using that capability and legal ability to also collect the communications of everyday Americans as well; so much so, that their underlying reason to tap foreigners is to collect on Americans.
LN TecWeek for 3.10.17: NoDAPL Gets a Warrant
Warrants for political Facebook pages, more on Vault 7, and an update on the Amazon Echo case.
You Are Under Surveillance: Wikileaks Exposes the CIA
It turns out that complete government cyber surveillance isn’t a science fiction movie plot after all. Now it’s a verifiable fact, and people like former CIA agent Bill Binney are somewhere between screaming “I told you so!” and feeling the weight of this horrifying reality sink down deep onto their shoulders. YOU, Mr. and Ms. American, are under surveillance — even in your home.
WikiLeaks Explosion Rocks CIA
After the Snowden affair, even ordinary Americans began to feel a bit hinky about the U.S. government’s ability to know what they watch, say, write and do. Still, most people simply tried to joke about it and laugh it off. But after yesterday’s announcement by WikiLeaks that it plans to begin a “new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,” Americans may no longer find this a laughing matter.
LN TecWeek for 3/4/2017: Body Cams and Passwords
A new holster sensor turns on body cams when the firearm is drawn; privacy invasion or necessary measure?
Twitter Automates Censorship Against Anything They Don’t Like
To Twitter, free speech is only for people who say what Twitter wants them to say. For everyone else, there’s censorship.
Encryption is Washington’s Newest Hypocrisy
There are few things more ironic (or hypocritical) than the current encryption boom among Washington, D.C.’s power players and government officials.
LN TecWeek for 2/24/2017: Stingrays and Amazon Echo
Signal’s push to make things more user-friendly ends up compromising certain facets of its privacy-oriented purpose.