Boston DA and FBI asked congress to weaken encryption, but lawmakers were not impressed

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"Just follow the damn constitution."

Cops will soon be able to read our iris scans through reflections in our car mirrors

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Biometrics Center have won a gold Edison Award for their "Unconstrained Biometric Identification" technology, which enables real-time identification through futuristic iris scanning and facial recognition.

Nation’s first Black woman Attorney General on the drug war, dragnet spying, and FBI-driven terror plots

Loretta Lynch has been confirmed as the next Attorney General of the United States. She is the nation's first Black woman AG.

Congress looks to give spies way more warrantless access to our digital lives, and call it (cyber) security

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St. Louis appears to have dropped prosecutions to protect stingray surveillance from legal challenge

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Bill before congress would authorize secrecy and surveillance, not “cyber security”

Brookline police union raises privacy concerns about license plate tracking technology

US Military working to build sensors that never die, enabling persistent surveillance in remote places

Privacy battle heats up as Governor of Virginia sides with cops over legislature, Tea Party, ACLU, former attorney general