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A lot of Americans are making the job of identity thieves easier by disclosing their Social Security numbers whenever they’re asked. But privacy experts say there’s no reason to engage in this unwise practice, because there are only a few ...

A federal judge handed civil liberties groups a landmark victory Monday, issuing an injunction against the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program in a scathing ruling that labeled the agency’s actions “almost-Orwellian” and unconstitutional. Under the program, the NSA collects ...

The FBI apparently has the ability to take over your computer’s webcam and your smartphone’s camera and use them to spy on you, according to recent reports. To make matters worse, you probably wouldn’t realize that you are under surveillance ...

The city of Philadelphia has used eminent domain to take a famous artist’s privately owned studio to build a supermarket that might end up sitting empty. The latest abuse of eminent domain for urban renewal in the city of Brotherly ...

Next generation brain scanning technology could make machines that can literally read minds and record thoughts. That’s according to Scientific American, which reported that scientists around the world are getting closer to making science fiction into reality through something called ...

Las Vegas government officials may be expanding their leadership roles to include the real estate business. The city of North Las Vegas is among several cities who are debating the idea of using eminent domain to seize foreclosed homes – ...

Thanks to new technologies, it is easier than ever for big business, big government and almost anybody else to monitor nearly every aspect of your life. The National Security Agency’s use of metadata to monitor telephone conversations and emails is ...

There’s a new technique that can make paying online more convenient, more private and more secure. It’s called a masked credit card and it can let you make payments online without revealing such details as your address, credit card number, ...

Smart TV sets from LG could be gathering data about owners’ viewing habits and sending it back to the company, and similar sets by other companies have privacy experts concerned, too. The British government is investigating a complaint that Smart ...

At some point in the future, Facebook could be a far bigger threat to our privacy than we previously assumed. That’s because the social network is building the world’s biggest database of faces that theoretically can be used for biometric ...