AT&T stores either five or twenty-six years of our data, not really sure which

No evidence, no worries: on the use of secret subpoenas

What happens when legislatures pass laws enabling law enforcement to obtain sensitive, private information about people without requiring any evidence of criminal activity, and without any outside oversight whatsoever?

Fishing expeditions.

Take a look at this graph, produced by US Cellular in response to Senator Ed Markey's letters to cell phone companies seeking information about law enforcement surveillance requests.

On Bill Bratton and the police-industrial complex

Radio Boston: Police tracking cell phones

I was on Boston's NPR station WBUR yesterday discussing the newest revelations about cell phone spying, resulting from Senator Ed Markey's inquiries to cell phone companies. Joining me on the program was Jack McDevitt, associate dean of research for the College of Social Sciences & Humanities at Northeastern University.

Military secretly developed mobile app games that spied on users, report says

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Senator asks car companies how safe their products are from hackers and unwarranted police tracking

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Executive branch needs to sit down with this “you have no privacy rights” business

Twelve years of torture, illegality, and shame

Guest post by Victoria Brittain

The captive mind and the new American authoritarianism

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DOJ asks court to give police the benefit of the doubt on murky surveillance law