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The National Security Agency and its ally, the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have used advanced hacking techniques to crack most encryption software — meaning the two agencies can read encrypted messages on the Internet, even email, banking and medical ...

September 12, 2013 A small victory for me. The nurses and workers at the Doctors office where very nice and understanding about my desire not to fill it out. They said the government is behind it. Alot more work for ...

Electronic license plates may sound like something out of an old Jetson’s cartoon, but they soon could be mandatory on a car in your very own garage. California will most likely be the first state to use electronic license plates ...

Obamacare is driving a massive centralization of health care and medicine in the United States. Independent physicians and clinics are being pressured to turn their practices over to corporations and networks. A prime example of this occurred in the small ...

Some state governments are adding a new technology called radio frequency identification chips (also known as RFIDs) to driver’s licenses that will make it easy – critics say — for state officials to track citizens. The technology is not new; ...

Microsoft and Google don’t want anything more to do with the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Internet communications. The two tech giants have uncharacteristically banded together to sue the Department of Justice for the right to release more of what ...

The documentary Take Back Your Power details not just the security concerns often associated with a smart grid system, but the battle being waged by common citizens who do not want the new techno gadgets installed at their homes. The ...

If you think you’re being watched from the skies, you might be right. Law enforcement is increasingly using drones or unmanned aerial vehicles to spy on average people. In a letter to US Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the FBI admitted ...

The sad truth is that most Americans have no choice but to use the financial system. To do things like make mortgage payments, pay your taxes, or collect your salary or payments for business services, you need to use the ...

Parents who use so-called nanny cams — video cameras that keep tabs on babies — might want to examine that practice. Hackers, including sexual predators, are now targeting baby monitors. A hacker used a baby monitor to spy on a ...