Julian Assange Snowden and activists claim Assange's arrest threatens press freedomSalon - Shira TarloIn this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. (The Guardian via Getty Images) Edward Snowden and activists claim Julian Assange's arrest poses
Pew Research Center Facebook still tracks you after you deactivate accountCNET - Alfred Ng Deactivation does nothing for your privacy.
The BLM's Burning Man environmental impact statement is terrible, calls for drug searches, dumpsters, and a 19,000,000lbboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow The Burning Man event is seeking a renewal of its 10-year permit to use the federally owned Black Rock Desert site managed by the Bureau of Land …
Robert Mueller William Barr Seems to Be Covering Up Something Bad for TrumpNew York Magazine - Jonathan Chait Last evening, the Wall Street Journal editorialized that reporters and House Democrats were smearing Attorney General William Barr by implying that …
LGBTQI Real Enemies of the People: AG William Barr and the GOP Senateadvocate.com - Susan Surftone Donald Trump is an amoral man with allegiance to money, power, and himself. When Russians began to help him in his uphill battle to win the …
U.S. Politics McConnell blocks vote on release of Mueller report for 2nd timeAxios - Zachary Basu Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a resolution introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) calling for the release of the full …
Donald Trump Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe: Forget Mueller; impeachment won't save AmericaSalon - Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump; Laurence Tribe (AP/Salon) x March 26, 2019 11:00AM (UTC) As the entire world now knows, last Friday special counsel Robert Mueller submitted the final version of his report to Attorney General
Donald Trump Trump uses the Barr letter to defend attacks on media and demands that Democrats be silenceddailykos.com - Mark Sumner No one outside the Department of Justice has seen the Mueller report. Neither Congress nor the public has seen even one full sentence of the Mueller …
The Supreme Court curtails states’ power to seize propertyThe Economist TYSON TIMBS, a man from Indiana, had his $42,000 Land Rover seized in 2015 after he pleaded guilty to selling $385 worth of heroin to undercover …
Exposed Chinese database shows depth of surveillance stateAssociated Press - By YANAN WANG and DAKE KANG, Associated PressBEIJING (AP) — The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details. It was a compilation of real-time data on more than 2.5 million people in western China,
Trump 'can be influenced in real time' by a handful of television programs. That should be alarmingdailykos.com - Hunter Over at Media Matters, senior fellow Matt Gertz has become one of the nation's best decipherers of Donald J. Trump's Twitter feed. Specifically, …
Netflix records all of your Bandersnatch choices, GDPR request revealsThe Verge - Jon PorterFrosties or Sugar Puffs? Netflix knows your preference Netflix keeps a record all of your Bandersnatch choice data from its Black Mirror choose-your-own-adventure film, a technology policy researcher discovered.
Spain’s trial of Catalan separatists is an alarming act of state repressionThe Guardian - Carles PuigdemontProsecuting these peaceful advocates of the ballot box marks yet more of the authoritarianism we saw on referendum day • Carles Puigdemont is the former Catalan president The most important political in
FBI spies on internet userscomputerweekly.com - Warwick Ashford Security Editor US public concerns about government have widened with the revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI are tapping …
China Is Having an Unexpected Privacy Awakeningslate.com - Samm Sacks and Lorand Laskai Chinese companies are increasingly finding that the days of collecting data without public scrutiny are over.
UK police use of computer programs to predict crime sparks discrimination warningThe Guardian - Sarah MarshThe rapid growth in the use of computer programs to predict crime hotspots and people who are likely to reoffend risks locking discrimination into the criminal justice system, a report has warned. Amid
Play button De-Classified CIA Training Film: Car Surveillancesilodrome.com Reading time: about 1 minute. American • Films This formerly classified CIA training film covers techniques used to surveil cars using multiple …
Attorney general nominee Barr makes it clear that he'll keep Donald Trump out of the Mueller reportdailykos.com - Mark Sumner While Donald Trump may have been surprised to learn that William Barr and special counsel Robert Mueller are longtime acquaintances, that hasn’t …
Mass arrest of federal employees outside Sen. McConnell's office: 'Where is Mitch? We want to work!'dailykos.com - Jen Hayden Federal employees are growing increasingly impatient as they stand to miss their third paycheck. Today they took their complaints directly where they …
Waiting for a Shutdown to End in DisasterThe Atlantic - McKay CoppinsAides on Capitol Hill fear that a dramatic government failure may be the only thing to force President Trump and the Democrats back to the table. As the longest government shutdown in American history
Battle lines forming ahead of a looming US privacy law fightSFGate - Rachel Lerman and Tali Arbel, Ap Technology WritersConsumer advocates and the data-hungry technology industry are drawing early battle lines in advance of an expected fight this year over what kind of federal privacy law the U.S. should have. On Thursday,
Biometric phone unlocks can’t be forced by feds, says U.S. judgeDigital Trends - Mark Jansen The advance of technology outpacing the law is a commonly held belief, but it seems the law is starting to catch up. A Californian judge has ruled …
AG nominee William Barr: Trump administration can jail reporters who 'hurt the country'rawstory.com - David Edwards William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday suggested that journalists could be put in jail if they “hurt the …
Police can’t force you to unlock your phone by iris, face or fingerZDNet - Charlie Osborne A US judge has ruled that law enforcement cannot force you to release your biometric mobile device lock. A US judge has ruled that law enforcement …
Marine base was 'hotbed of KKK activity' leading to fight where black Marines were arrested and Klansman 'quietly transferred'rawstory.com - Martin Cizmar A California Marine base was a “hotbed” of KKK activity in the 1970s, a situation that became “an open secret that was tolerated or aided by Marine …
Mueller likely has ‘classified’ communication intercepts showing Trump working with Russia: Ex-FBI counterintel chiefrawstory.com - Bob Brigham The former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggested that special counsel Robert Mueller likely has …
Trump prepares to declare a unitary government, as Republicans cheer him ondailykos.com - Mark Sumner On Thursday, Donald Trump moved closer to declaring a national emergency and seizing the funds to build his wall, despite failure to secure the …
6 Boxes Of Files Related To Mumia Abu-Jamal Case Found In Philadelphia Storage RoomNPR - Bobby AllynDays after Christmas, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and some of his assistants went rummaging around an out-of-the-way storage room in the office looking for some pieces of furniture. What
Trump's prime-time address could end up being America's worst nightmare -- here's whyrawstory.com - Bob Cesca The two biggest outrages currently circulating through the bloodstreams of Donald Trump’s Red Hat loyalists include Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., …
