Published on Thursday, February 9, 2012 by Common Dreams
30,000 Domestic Drones to Fill the Sky, Civil Liberties at Risk
FAA Act would raise 'very serious...
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Iran blocked Tor handshakes using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in January 2011 and September 2011. Bluecoat tested out a Tor handshake filter in Syria in June 2011....
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In yet another Smartphone-related push to increase the intensity of the global police state, a “new” company, CrimePush, has released a smartphone app...
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Facebook is running into some issues with its privacy again and this may not be good especially when its IPO is around the corner. It has been discovered to the...
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Google’s new plan to link user data across its email, video, social-networking sites has come under fire from critics who say it’s an invasion of privacy...
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Facebook makes money by selling ad space to companies that want to reach us. Advertisers choose key words or details — like relationship status, location,...
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SOPA may be history but that doesn’t mean Internet freedom does not remain under assault. Tyrants never stop trying to enforce tyranny....
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Government control of the flow of information will strike a blow against Internet anonymity and the free speech it has made possible. Driver’s license, bill of...
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Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit. The scheme was outlined at the...
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Global Internet censorship is here. SOPA and PIPA have been stopped (at least for now) in the United States, but a treaty known as ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting...
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A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to...
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By Agence France-Presse Thursday, January 26, 2012 21:27 EST WASHINGTON — The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media...
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By now, people who use the Internet seriously, and even plenty who don’t, are aware of the arrest of six-foot-seven, 300-pound Kim Dotcom, an outsize figure in...
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On, Monday January 23, 2012, in the case U.S. v. Jones, the Supreme Court Ruled that the government's action of Installing a GPS Device on a person's car,...
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An Orwellian software development project that the Navy has invested in called “E-MEME” will be able to sift through the internet for ideas and...
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As heat continues to build around the controversial and contentious Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), one site is taking matters into its own hands to out opponents of...
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A new study from Microsoft Research India and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems shows that companies are taking gender preferences into account when posting...
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A 19-year-old has been jailed for four months after he refused to hand his computer password over to police. Oliver Drage was arrested in May last year by officers...
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It's amazing to watch the civil libertarians hide when Democrats propose the most sweeping intrusions of privacy in generations. In addition to the litany of bad...
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