Filed Under: “Privacy”
Supreme Court: You can’t sue corporations for wrongfully labeling you a terrorist
By Cindy Cohn
Being falsely slandered as a terrorist by credit score companies has huge consequences for anyone, but in a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS prohibited lawsuits against them
Amazon Sidewalk is the tech giant’s latest surveillance capitalism endeavor
By Emiliano Falcon-Morano
The Seattle-based tech company is trying to build its own private surveillance infrastructure
The Department of Justice sued an imaginary cow, but it’s no laughing matter
By Mark Sumner
Conspiracy-promoting congressman Devin Nunes appears to have enlisted the federal government to help him discover the identities of people ridiculing him on the internet
New bill would prohibit government from using private data collectors to evade privacy laws
By Kenny Stancil
‘Intelligence and law enforcement agencies must come to understand that the American people are off-limits to warrantless mass surveillance, no matter how it is done.’
Tinder and OkCupid promise background check feature for daters
By Brian Edwards and Elizabeth Naismith Picciani
As single people begin seeing the end of covid restrictions, dating sites are beginning to address safety concerns.
Journalists need to stop repeating law enforcement propaganda against encryption
By John O'Day
The extremists planning the 1/6 Capitol attack did it on the open web, not on on encrypted messaging platforms like Signal or Telegram.