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David versus Goliath on Beacon Hill: Privacy advocates and major internet companies face off at the state house over consumer privacy

07/26/2017 - Censorship, Corporate Spying, Data Mining, Internet Freedom, Law Reform

Here are some websites you or someone in your family may have visited: pornhub.com addictionandrecovery.org plannedparenthood.org suicidepreventionlifeline.org stdcheck.com lgbtcenters.org preventchildabuse.org domesticviolence.org Do you think internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast and AT&T should be able to sell your personal information, including information...
State legislatures across the nation are considering consumer internet privacy laws

05/24/2017 - Corporate Spying, Data Mining, Internet Freedom, Law Reform

In early April 2017, the Trump administration killed Obama-era FCC regulations that would have prevented internet service providers like Comcast from selling sensitive customer information without explicit opt-in consent. In response, legislators in states across the country have introduced bills to fill...
House and Senate kill Obama-era FCC privacy rules; take action to defend your data

03/29/2017 - Algorithms, Corporate Spying, Data Mining, Freedom of Speech, Internet Freedom, Law Reform, Mass Surveillance

The GOP Congress just took an ax to your internet privacy. Here’s how to get some of it back. Use Tor browser. Tor is a free browser that lets you explore the internet anonymously. The only downside with Tor is that it...
Take action now to stop internet service providers from selling your records to your boss and the cops

03/24/2017 - Corporate Spying, Freedom of Speech, Internet Freedom, Law Reform, Mass Surveillance

Yesterday, the Senate passed a measure to overturn Obama-era FCC rules that prevent internet service providers like Comcast and Time Warner from using or selling your internet history records without your permission. Even worse, the measure approved by the Senate in a...
Report: AT&T is data mining phone records for the police, for profit

10/25/2016 - Corporate Spying, Data Mining, Drug Wars, Mass Surveillance, Secrecy

Journalist Kenneth Lipp with the major scoop: The AT&T pay-to-play surveillance service scheme called Project Hemisphere is much bigger than original reports suggested. Lipp writes in the Daily Beast: Hemisphere is a secretive program run by AT&T that searches trillions of call...
How the FBI may soon use internet meltdowns like Friday’s as an excuse to hack YOUR devices

10/23/2016 - Corporate Spying, FBI, Internet Freedom, Mass Surveillance, Security Theater

Debates about internet security and the limits of state power just got a lot more interesting. Unless you don’t use the internet, you likely know that on Friday a number of major websites were inaccessible for hours. These sites were victims of a...
Yahoo, ACLU seek declassification of information about reported email scanning program

10/20/2016 - Corporate Spying, Freedom of Speech, Internet Freedom, Mass Surveillance, NSA, Secrecy

In early October 2016, Reuters reported that in 2015, the US government asked Yahoo to scan all incoming email looking for particular signatures or characters, and that Yahoo complied without a fight. Since the matter became public, Yahoo has changed its tune....
Report: Yahoo helped government with ‘unprecedented, unconstitutional’ email surveillance program

10/05/2016 - Corporate Spying, Data Mining, FBI, Internet Freedom, Mass Surveillance, NSA, Security Theater

Big news dropped yesterday in Reuters: In 2015, the US government asked Yahoo to scan all incoming email looking for certain, unknown characters in emails or attachments; unfortunately, Yahoo agreed to do it—without putting up a fight. The demand came in the form of a...
Is your municipal wifi really free? Or are you paying with your sensitive data?

07/06/2016 - Corporate Spying, Data Mining, Internet Freedom, Mass Surveillance, Secrecy

The Village Voice has published the results of an investigation into New York City’s ambitious new wifi system, called LinkNYC. Ultimately, there will be as many as 7,500 kiosks throughout New York’s five boroughs, providing passersby and residents with super fast wifi,...
Student documentary explores ‘No expectation of privacy’ rules

06/08/2016 - Corporate Spying, Mobile Security, Security Theater, Youth Rights

Student documentarians at Housatonic Valley Regional high school, in cooperation with the Civil Life Project, produced a short documentary on student privacy issues. The documentary asks administrators, students, and privacy experts what they think about school policy that says students have ‘no expectation...