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On Monday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York held argument in United States v. Hasbajrami, an important case involving surveillance under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. It …
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The Chinese government is working to create a techno-authoritarian state powered by artificial intelligence and facial recognition to track and monitor its 1.4 billion citizens. The government has big plans to …
Read MoreJudging from its series of consequential meetings last week in Vienna, OPEC seems to have confirmed that the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. The important thing to …
Read MoreAlmost exactly one year ago, the world experienced two destructive cyberattacks in which offensive cyber tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) were stolen and shared with the public. …
Read MoreThink the OnePlus 6 face unlock feature is all the security you need to keep shady people from getting into your phone? Think again. On Twitter this week, OnePlus 6 user Rik …
Read MoreThis week, 24 civil liberties organizations, including EFF and the ACLU, urged Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats to report—as required by law—statistics that could help clear up just how …
Read MoreNew analysis suggests that hundreds of thousands of routers are infected with a malicious bug that could be used by a nation-state to bring down large segments of the internet. …
Read MoreFrom https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads/transcript
Read MoreA hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it to law enforcement. A hacker …
Read MoreA new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right. The bipartisan Secure Data Act would stop any government agency or court order from forcing a company to build backdoors into …
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