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For many Americans, privacy has become a hot topic of discussion. As story after story rolls out about the NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS, and any other overreaching government organization abusing its power, Americans find themselves asking the hard questions and ...

Is the recent explosion of social media scaring you? Whether you like it or not, it’s everywhere, and it’s growing like a weed. Problem is, if you are on Facebook or Twitter, you know that “big brother” is watching and ...

Uncle Sam might be planning to wage illegal cyber warfare on U.S. citizens. The federal government, it seems, has been secretly (and sometimes openly) recruiting computer hackers to engage in legal and illegal activities for years. Frighteningly enough, some of ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling that allows law enforcement to collect DNA samples from arrested suspects without a warrant passed by a 5-4 margin last week with unlikely partners on both sides of the ruling. An uncommon alliance of Justices Ruth ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The abuses at the Internal Revenue Service are much worse than we thought. An article run on Tuesday at Off the Grid News about IRS abuses in regard to conservative groups and their tax exempt statuses appears to be just ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...