The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Massive Public Opposition to Oakland Spy Hub Forces City to Change Plans
Unprecedented public outcry this spring prompted the Bay Area city to rework – and vastly diminish – its $11 million plans for a mass surveillance system.
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Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a nightmare scenario.
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Revealed: Egyptian Society Outraged By New Social Media Surveillance Program
The new plan expands the security forces' reach and reveals a return to a police state in Egypt.
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Hunger Games Salute Being Used to Protest Thai Military Coup
Groups opposing Thailand's May 22 military coup have been banned from displaying three fingers in the air as the junta clamps down on protest.
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Police Killings Raise Tensions As Protests Continue in Salinas, California
The shooting death two weeks ago of Carlos Mejia was caught on a cell phone and quickly went viral, prompting outrage as he became the third person killed by Salinas police in three months.
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ExposeFacts: A New Organization for Whistleblowing, Journalism and Democracy
The new group, led by Daniel Ellsberg, Barbara Ehrenreich, William Binney and others, will shed light on concealed activities relevant to human rights, corporate malfeasance, the environment, civil liberties and war.
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Twitter Has Quietly Learned To Censor And Ban Its Users When Governments Ask
Twitter has a reputation as an open platform for expressing one's opinions. Last week, it agreed to censor a pro-Ukrainian Twitter feed in Russia. It also blocked a "blasphemous" account in Pakistan. It's not the first time Twitter has censored politically sensitive accounts. Now, it seems, Twitter's reputation as a platform for free speech is at risk.
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House Committee Puts NSA on Notice Over Encryption Standards
A new amendment would remove the requirement that the National Institute of Standards and Technology consult with the NSA on encryption standards.
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Hacker-Informant "Sabu" Betrayed Anonymous – And Now Freed After "Extraordinary" FBI Cooperation
Anonymous condemned the court's decision, saying the FBI uses captured informants to "pacify online dissent and snuff out journalistic investigations into the U.S. government’s misconduct.”
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A Hyper-Spying Empire: How the U.S. Institutionalized Surveillance
The NSA's surveillance leviathan, funded by a black budget and presided over by a star-chamber court, suctions up inconceivable amounts of material from around the world.
