Why Opting Out Won’t Help Your Privacy

In my ongoing campaign to get people to pay more attention to privacy, one of the things I hear most often is that “Well, I opt-out of…

FBI Facial Recognition Database Expected to Have 52 Million Faces By 2015

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information requests for exposure of government privacy intrusions, reported today that the FBI will have a…

NSA Infiltrated Crypto Company Deeper than Previously Known

For those reading VG or following the NSA debacle, it’s not news that security provider RSA got paid by the NSA to implement and push compromised security…

The White House Cares About Your Privacy…Or Something

The title of this article is almost as much of a joke as the actual ‘news’ it’s about.  The White House—and the devious jackasses inhabiting it—are trying…

NSA Scooped Up Every Single Phone Call in a Foreign Country

WaPo is reporting that the NSA apparently has the technology to collect literally every single phone call in a foreign country, incoming or outgoing—and that they’ve done…

The License Plate Database is Not As Gone as You Think

Remember that whole 24-hour kerfluffle about the Department of Homeland Control Security making a license plate database?  We reported on it, and then it seemed the next…

NSA Denies Mimicking Facebook But Internal Docs Prove Otherwise

Last week we heard all about how the NSA was pretending to be Facebook.  Maybe you cared, maybe you didn’t.  (If you didn’t, then you’re part of…

The NSA’s Advice Columnist

Just when we think we’ve heard the stupidest thing ever, we see things like this. An NSA official, writing under the pen name “Zelda,” has actually served…

Criminalizing Blogging About NSA Leaks?

There’s a very disturbing article on Computer World this week regarding NSA chief Keith Alexander’s desire to make even writing about and/or linking to stories on the…

Reddit Censorship: The Topic Everyone is Talking About Everywhere but Reddit

The hottest topic on Reddit right now can’t actually be found on Reddit.  It’s censorship—and you won’t find it on Reddit because the censorship is being done…

Dead iPhone 5S Keeps Tracking You

From the “Freaky Crap You Wish You Didn’t Know” department comes a tale of a dead iPhone that tracked its owner’s movements for four days while the…

Utah House Passes NSA Nullification Bill 71-2

The state of Utah has some cojones.  Their House has not only been debating a bill that would turn off the water to the NSA’s huge data…

SOFREP on Ukraine and Other Quick Stories

Today we have a whirlwind tour of What The Media Isn’t Bothering To Care Much About. – SOFREP explains all the layers to the Ukraine issue and…

NSA and GCHQ Collect Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images

Bruce Schneier wrote a must read piece for the Guardian explaining why the NSA heads feel comfortable lying to the American people about their surveillance program.  Turns…

Disengaging From the Matrix, Part 2: TrueCrypt

NOTE: I’ve gotten a few emails from readers who have concerns that “If I stop using Google/Yahoo/Apple software, I won’t be able to do ____.”  That’s not…

Taliban Suspends Talks About POW Bowe Bergdahl and Weekend Links!

Bowe Bergdahl, in case you’re not aware, is a United States soldier who has been held as a POW by the Taliban since being captured in 2009. …

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