The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to get federal wiretapping laws changed to give it the power to force Internet providers to spy on you. The Bureau has been trying to force companies like Google and Facebook to build ...
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Give Up Your Privacy For “Free” Services
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” said Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1975. Updating this phrase today would go something like, “There’s no such thing as a free anything.” More specifically, when a business offers you something ...
Read More »The Only Argument You Need To Defend Your Right To Privacy
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government,” Supreme Court Justice William Douglass lamented over sixty years ago. Unfortunately, he was right, as ...
Read More »What Personal eReader Data Are They Storing?
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind,” said famed champion of individualism Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unfortunately, even the last refuge of privacy, our thoughts, is under attack. From the Electronic Communications Act of 1986 to ...
Read More »Could Big Brother Know What’s On Your Kindle?
Digital reading devices such as the Amazon Kindle, the iPad, and other tablets aren’t just convenient for average people. They’re also very convenient for Big Brother and anybody else that wants to see what you’re reading. Professors at Texas A&M ...
Read More »Revealed: 10 Drones Hijacking Your Privacy
Because there is too much money to be made and too many special interest groups that want them, drones are here to stay. Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution sees drones as a “game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam ...
Read More »Who’s Snooping On Your Web Activity?
While everyone that uses a computer (and almost everyone does in one form or another) should take active measures to secure their information, the hard truth is that it is next to impossible to avoid being tracked by your cyber-footprint. ...
Read More »EXPOSED: Stunning New Scheme For Drones
Dronenet is a word like Internet—one that you’ll be hearing about in the years ahead. The dronenet is a powerful new technology that, like the Internet, could be a huge threat to your freedom or a tremendous tool for increasing ...
Read More »Big Brother Spies On Your Students
This March, the South by Southwest Education Technology Conference in Austin, Texas unveiled an enormous database holding the personal information of millions of school-aged children currently enrolled in public schools across the country. The project, dubbed inBloom, already has the ...
Read More »Obama Action On “Financial Privacy” Will Have Questionable Impact On Average Americans
Advocates of “civil liberties” are concerned because Reuters reported that the Obama administration is planning to give U.S. spy agencies full access to financial data about U.S. bank accounts. The problem with these concerns is that the spy agencies already ...
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