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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New U.K. Surveillance Bill Slammed By Privacy and Civil Rights Groups
The Investigatory Powers Bill – or “Snoopers Charter” – is now enshrined in U.K. law, forcing internet and mobile phone companies to keep a record of all citizens’ browsing and phone use, even if they aren't suspected of terrorism.
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Mass Surveillance Is Fundamental Threat to Human Rights, Says European Report
Europe’s top rights body says mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat to human rights and violate the right to privacy enshrined in European law.
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The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records.
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Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part III
Arizona State University’s Defense Department-sponsored data-mining algorithms would enhance CIA "signature" drone strike targeting.
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Google and Yahoo Furious Over Reports that NSA Secretly Intercepts Data Links
Leaked files suggest the NSA, in partnership with its British counterpart GCHQ, is collecting information "at will" by intercepting cables that connect Google and Yahoo's data hubs.
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Spain Reports NSA Tracked 60 Million Phone Calls In a Month
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reproduced a graphic illustrating that the NSA spied on tens of millions of phone calls in the country late last year, widening the net of European nations and leaders under heavy U.S. surveillance.
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Thousands March on Washington Demanding End to Surveillance
Masses of protesters aligned with the coalition Stop Watching Us assembled on the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act to urge Congress to reform the legal framework that supports the government's secretive online data gathering network.
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America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now
As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington nears, let's not forget the history of agency overreach and abuse of power that occurred when the FBI doggedly pursued Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Edward Snowden Is Not the Story — the Fate of the Internet Is
The mainstream media's focus on Edward Snowden has trumped the real story — which is what the NSA revelations tell us about how our networked world actually works and the direction in which it is heading.
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Snowden Leaks Give New Life to Lawsuits Challenging N.S.A. Surveillance Programs
Cracks are appearing in a legal wall that since 9/11 has shielded the U.S. government's claim of constitutional authority from open-court review, as five lawsuits filed since the Snowden affair allege violations by the NSA surveillance program.
