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Numerous FISA judges are also Verizon shareholders
It looks as if the judges who operate the gateway between the NSA and the cable companies may not be as impartial as their job description requires them to. An investigation…
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Congress just dealt a massive blow to municipal broadband
US Representative, Marsha Blackburn, wants to make sure the Federal Communications Commission never interferes with a “state’s right” to protect private Internet service providers…
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Germany is now banning tech companies that work with the NSA
It didn’t take an Edward Snowden to figure out that American espionage service providers had access to confidential information about German citizens. It’s been known for years…
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Brazil approves bill to protect internet freedom and net neutrality
Yesterday evening the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved the Marco Civil bill, which contains significant protections for net neutrality, user privacy and security…
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TSA officer admits that body scanners are only good for seeing you naked
Today, Politico Magazine published a tell-all expose of the TSA by a former officer. The article ridicules airport security, depicting scanners as futile and humiliating. But…
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Is the USTR actively working against the interests of the American people?
The next great innovative companies come out of a world where giving the public exactly what it wants is key, and part of that is an openness and transparency that brings those…
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‘The Internet Must Go’ – a mockumentary
A new “mockumentary” called The Internet Must Go launched today, in conjunction with the latest court hearing in the Verizon case against the FCC over the FCC’s net neutrality…
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Feds beg NY Times, Pro Publica not to reveal that they’ve inserted backdoors into Internet encryption
The reporting on these documents was done jointly by The Guardian, the NY Times and Pro Publica. However, the NY Times coverage has one interesting tidbit: Intelligence officials…