Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Your Smartphone Is Tracking You In Ways You've Never Imagined
Do smartphones—with all their interactive, location, and connectivity features and apps—compromise our privacy and information security?
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Obama Deports Record Number of Immigrants, Using Scary Private GEO Group to Get the Job Done
The largest deportation prison in the U.S. is a former jail in the hyper-corrupt City of Adelanto, California, where public officials are often criminals.
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New NYPD Chief Defends Stop-and-Frisk—Despite Being Stopped and Frisked
Philip Banks, who was promoted to the department's top uniformed position this week, supports the NYPD's controversial stop and frisk policy.
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FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as Top Priority for 2013
The FBI says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a “top priority” this year.
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Out of One Gram of Marijuana, a ‘Manufactured Misdemeanor’
The NYPD routinely gins up fake marijuana charges that jail New York City's black youth.
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The CIA Tries to Collect Your Data and Hang on to it Forever
The Agency's Chief Technology Officer wants all your text messages, tweets, and videos. Yes, yours.
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Reported Plans Surface For CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon
The CIA is reportedly planning on handing the controversial drone program over to the Pentagon.
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Techtivist Report: Beware the Spy in Spam
Pope Francis had barely donned his new white robes before cybercriminals were targeting his flock with spam emails and social media posts in a bid to suck money out of their bank accounts.
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Genocide Trial Opens for Guatemala's Ex-Leader
The trial of General Efrain Rios Montt, 86, the former U.S.-backed de facto president of Guatemala, has begun, spotlighting the killing of 1,800 indigenous people during his country's civil war.
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Dying Iraq War Vet’s Message to "War Criminals" Bush and Cheney
Tomas Young, paralyzed in a war he signed up for at age 22, writes of his fury at the "war criminals" who sent him there.
