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Privacy

'Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy': Snowden Condemns US, UK, and Australian Push for 'Backdoor' Into Facebook Messaging Apps

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Just as Digital Privacy Advocates Warned, Bezos Admits Amazon Writing Its Own Laws on Facial Recognition

Julia Conley, staff writer

This technology, says one critic, "poses a profound threat to the future of human liberty that can't be mitigated by industry-friendly regulations."

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Snowden Responds After DOJ Sues Whistleblower Over Memoir US Government 'Does Not Want You to Read'

Julia Conley, staff writer

The Justice Department filed suit the day Snowden's memoir Permanent Record was...

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Targeting PATRIOT Act Provision, Rights Groups Urge House Dems to Block NSA From Collecting Americans' Phone Records

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Mass surveillance is wrong and dangerous to our democracy."

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30+ Rights Groups Launch Campaign Demanding Law Enforcement Ban on 'Authoritarian and Invasive' Facial Recognition Technology

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Advocates Blast 'Paltry' $170 Million Penalty for Google's Violations of Child Privacy Rules

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"Scariest Thing You'll Read All Day": Report Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Reading Technology and Neurocapitalism

Trump Mulling 'Uniquely Dystopian' Proposal to Use AI to Identify Mental Health Issues as Risk Factors for Gun Violence

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Praising Sanders for His Call to Ban Law Enforcement Using Facial Recognition Tools, Digital Rights Group Urges All Presidential Hopefuls to Follow Suit

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Rights Group Warns Against Amazon Marketing to Law Enforcement 'Dangerous and Invasive' Facial Recognition System It Claims Can Detect People's Fear

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Privacy Advocates Celebrate Court Ruling on Class-Action Suit Targeting Facebook's Facial Recognition Tech

Fueling Calls for Ban, Even a Security Industry Group Thinks Police Partnerships With Amazon Ring Are Dangerous

'A Dystopian Surveillance State Being Built in Plain Sight': Pentagon Tests Radar-Equipped Balloons to Spy on Vehicles Across Midwest

To Keep Public Housing From Becoming 'Panopticon of Automated Face Scanning,' Democrats Push Facial Recognition Ban

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'Good News!': With Unanimous Vote, Oakland Joins Growing List of Cities to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

'We Need to Ban It Entirely': New US Campaign Calls for Moratorium on Facial Recognition Surveillance

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Public Citizen

Andrew Smith Must Recuse Himself From Revisions to FTC’s Online Children’s Privacy Protections

Fight for the Future

Amazon’s Annual Product Launch Fails to Address Privacy and Surveillance Concerns

Free Press Action

Coalition of Digital-Rights and Social-Justice Groups Urge House Democrats to End NSA Mass-Surveillance Program

US PIRG

Google to Pay Disappointing $170 Million Fine Over YouTube’s Sale and Tracking of Ads Aimed at Children

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Advocates Who Filed the Privacy Complaint Against Google/YouTube Laud Improvements, But Say FTC Settlement Falls Far Short

Fight for the Future

Facial Recognition Invading Public Schools

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Joseph Stiglitz

Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

Ellen Brown

Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street

Tim Lau

The Government Is Expanding Its Social Media Surveillance Capabilities

Vera Eidelman, Ramya Krishnan

The Government’s System of Censoring Its Former Employees Is Unconstitutional

Vasudha Talla

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations

Gennie Gebhart

A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We'll Believe It When We See It.

Melodi Dincer, Kristin M. Mulvey

The Government Cannot Force E-mail Companies to Copy and Save Your Account ‘Just in Case’

Sydney Li, Jason Kelley

Google Screenwise: An Unwise Trade of All Your Privacy for Cash

India McKinney

A Surveillance Wall Is Not a Good Alternative to a Concrete Wall

Thom Hartmann

How Libertarian Theology and Trump Are Destroying the Internet—and America