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We’ve heard a lot lately about police departments’ use of cell phone sniffers called “Stingrays”. These devices, technically called IMSI catchers, sniff out the identities, metadata, and sometimes even content from cell phones within a given geographic area.
Did you know Customs Border Patrol's Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Border Enforcement and Management System Division (BEMSD) does "natural disaster" first responder work? Neither did I!
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Care about internet freedom? Want to protect yourself and everyone you know against suspicionless surveillance? Get involved.
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The federal government is rolling out a pilot of the long-awaited (and feared) "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" project. In English, that means "an ID number to track you everywhere you go on the internet."
UPDATE: The entire Massachusetts congressional delegation is now co-sponsoring the USA Freedom Act.
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A new poll by the Pew Center and Smithsonian Magazine says that most Americans are optimistic that technology will have a positive impact on human life in the coming decades. The poll sheds some light on what kinds of futuristic technologies Americans want, and which they don't.
