Surveillance articles

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  Privacy bill would ban police from getting email and location data without a warrant

  By Joshua Kopstein on March 6, 2013 07:56 pm + 15 comments

  Privacy advocates in Congress have introduced another bi-partisan bill attempting to amend Continue reading…

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  'God.js' lets you program and enforce your own browser-based religion

  By Joshua Kopstein on March 6, 2013 01:37 pm + 28 comments

  Piety is hard to come by in the anything-goes swamp of sin that is the internet. But thanks to a Continue reading…

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  Google begins offering vague estimates on secret FBI surveillance

  By Joshua Kopstein on March 5, 2013 06:22 pm + 37 comments

  Google's bi-annual Transparency Reports have sought to provide users with detailed information on Continue reading…

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  Border patrol drones can detect armed subjects and intercept wireless signals, documents show

  By Adi Robertson on March 2, 2013 05:13 pm + 23 comments

  The Department of Homeland Security's border patrol drones are outfitted to distinguish armed Continue reading…

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  Denied in the Supreme Court, warrantless wiretap opponents are losing ground fast

  By Joshua Kopstein on March 1, 2013 03:32 pm + 41 comments

  For the past decade, a legal battle has been brewing on multiple fronts over the US government’s Continue reading…

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  Koozoo turns any old iPhone into a 24/7 spycam

  By Ellis Hamburger on February 28, 2013 12:00 pm + 45 comments

  Rick’s American Cafe is the most popular bar where I went to school in Ann Arbor, MI. Thursday, Continue reading…

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  NSA's 'Ragtime' domestic spying program detailed in new book

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on February 28, 2013 11:16 am + 8 comments

  There are four — maybe five — members of the NSA who make sure that its secret domestic Continue reading…

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  Chinese citizens turn the tables, use surveillance and social media to expose corrupt officials

  By Sean Hollister on February 27, 2013 06:44 pm + 68 comments

  It's easy to associate surveillance cameras with Big Brother — to imagine that governments would Continue reading…

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  Privacy bill aims to outlaw killer drones in the US, regulate UAV surveillance

  By Joshua Kopstein on February 15, 2013 07:31 pm + 45 comments

  The leak of a confidential memo detailing the US government's justifications for drone strikes on Continue reading…

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  Iran claims to have produced and deployed UAV based on captured US ScanEagle drone

  By T.C. Sottek on February 11, 2013 11:56 am + 67 comments

  The United States Navy and the Obama administration have denied Iran's claim that it captured a Continue reading…