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Promising 'Bellwether' or Utter Failure? California Passes Landmark Privacy Law for Online Data

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'Most Important Surveillance Story You Will See for Years': Report Reveals How ATT Buildings Serve as Secret Hubs for NSA Spying

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"AT&T has bent over backwards to help the U.S. government spy on essentially all internet traffic."

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"The government can no longer claim that just using technology like your...

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Facebook Shareholders Accuse Zuckerberg of Running 'Corporate Dictatorship' and Condemn Data Privacy Scandal as 'Human Rights Violation'

Julia Conley, staff writer

Zuckerberg's outsized influence over the company's decision making has...

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'User Manual for Authoritarian Surveillance': ACLU Red Alert as Amazon Peddles Facial Recognition Tool to Police

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'From Utopia to Dystopia' and Back Again: Internet Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee Calls for 'New Web' That Reclaims Original Democratic Principles

Facebook Wants to Be Better About Privacy, Just Not With These 1.5 Billion Users

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Huge Leap in Number of Facebook Users 'Very Concerned' About Invasion of Privacy on Social Media Site

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: If You Want Privacy, You're Going to Have to Pay for It

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Not 50 Million, Not 87 Million... Facebook Admits Data From 'Most' of Its 2 Billion Users Compromised by 'Malicious Actors'

Critics Scoff at Zuckerberg's Promise to Comply With New Privacy Rules 'In Spirit'

In 'Egregious Breach' of Privacy, Popular App Grindr Supplies Third Parties with Users' HIV Status

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

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Uproar After Congress Sneaks Attack on Digital Privacy Rights Into Omnibus Spending Bill

'Shrouded in Secrecy': ACLU Wants Answers on TSA's Growing Practice of Searching Phones, Laptops, and Tablets

US Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents—And the Russians Offered Trump-Related Material, Too

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Fight for the Future

Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights Groups Launch Groundbreaking “Security Pledge” Campaign In Wake of Facebook Data Scandal

Representative Keith Ellison

Ellison on FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017

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Ruling in Trump Protest Case Protects Anonymous Speech but Limits Protections for Organizers

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U.S. PIRG Statement: Congress Should Pass FREE Act to Help Consumers after Equifax Breach

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Today’s Equifax News Beyond Troubling, Investigations an Important Step Congress Should Make Credit Freezes Free

ACLU

Tech Firms Urge Supreme Court to Adapt Privacy Protections for ‘Realities of the Digital Era’ in Cell Phone Tracking Case

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Ed Markey

Americans Deserve Privacy Protection From Big Data

Trevor Timm

Trump's Justice Dept Escalates Its Disturbing Crackdown on Leaks by Seizing New York Times Reporter's Phone and Email Records

Jamie Williams, Jennifer Lynch

Amazon, Stop Powering Government Surveillance

Hugh Handeyside

We’re Demanding The Government Come Clean on Surveillance of Social Media

Sophia Cope

Fourth Circuit Rules That Suspicionless Forensic Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional

Danny O'Brien

Why Am I Getting All These Terms of Service Update Emails?

Jay Stanley

A Company Announces Its Intent to Create World’s Newest Privacy Nightmare

Sarah St. Vincent

Data Privacy Is a Human Right. Europe Is Moving Toward Recognizing That.

India McKinney

Congress Held Ten Hours of Hearings on Facebook. What’s Next?

Gennie Gebhart

How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing

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