Big Brother

Condemning Facebook's Anti-Semitic and Racist Attacks on Critics, MoveOn Demands Accountability and Real Reform

Google Tracking User Data Even When 'Location History' Is Off: AP

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

New investigation by Associated Press shows how iPhone and Android users' location data is still recorded even when they have been misled to believe it isn't

Amnesty International Says 'Chilling Attack' on Staffer Using Israeli-Made Spyware May Be Part of 'Much Broader Surveillance Campaign'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The spying attempt "highlights the grave risk posed to activists around the...

'Creepy Violation of Constitutional Rights': TSA Uses Armed Undercover Air Marshals to Surveil Unsuspecting Travelers

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Marshals may "document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a 'jump...

'Groundbreaking Victory' for Privacy as Supreme Court Rules Against Warrantless Cellphone Tracking

Internet Pioneers Warn New EU Rules Would Turn Web Into "Tool for Automated Surveillance and Control"

As ATT-Time Warner Close Deal, Floodgates 'Wide Open' for Corporate Mega-Mergers

In 'Chilling' Attack on Press Freedom, Trump's DOJ Seizes Phone and Email Records of Reporter

'Sure Looks Like Zuckerberg Lied' to Congress About User Privacy, As New Facebook Data-Sharing Deals Come to Light

Chelsea Manning: Big Brother Getting Worse, 'Especially in US'

'Nixonian': To Kill Iran Deal, Trump Camp Hired Israeli Spy Firm to Dig Up Dirt on Obama Officials

Tripling Its Collection, NSA Sucked Up Over 530 Million US Phone Records in 2017

As Facebook Scrutiny Grows, New Campaign Demands Tech Giants Pledge to Build 'Surveillance-Resistant Web'

The NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal

Not Even Orwell or Huxley Imagined 'Totalitarian' Threat of Facebook, Google

Despite #ReleasetheMemo Call, Trump Signs Warrantless Surveillance Bill into Law

Further

Trolling the NSA

Privacy advocates kicked off a new anti-surveillance campaign in style by floating an airship reading "Illegal Spying Below" - complete with helpful arrow - over the NSA's massive data center in Utah. Dubbed "the maiden patrol of the first anti-surveillance activist air force," the flight marked the launch of Stand Against Spying , a project by Electronic Frontier Foundation, Greenpeace, the Tenth Amendment Center and 20 more groups that seeks to outlaw mass surveilance, reform the FISA court,...