Privacy

image credit abcnews.go.com The National Security Agency’s surveillance programs have poisoned the relationship between the United States and Brazil. Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is so angry...

image credit rare.us The Obama administration went out of its way to get restrictions on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs removed in 2011, allowing it...

Marissa Mayer & Mark Zuckerbergimage credit rt.com The National Security Agency threatened to label technology executives traitors and send them to prison if they did not...

The National Security Agency and its ally, the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have used advanced hacking techniques to crack most encryption software -- meaning the...

Electronic license plates may sound like something out of an old Jetson’s cartoon, but they soon could be mandatory on a car in your very own...

image credit autoblog.com Some state governments are adding a new technology called radio frequency identification chips (also known as RFIDs) to driver’s licenses that will make...

image credit politico.com Microsoft and Google don’t want anything more to do with the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Internet communications. The two tech giants have...

image credit investigations.nbcnews.com The US government’s tracking of telephone calls is far more widespread than Americans thought. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has its own telephone...

image courtesy of fairfaxcounty.gov It's been almost a year and a half since I wrote the article A Brief History of Checkpoints (and What to do...

image credit nytimes.com If you think you’re being watched from the skies, you might be right. Law enforcement is increasingly using drones or unmanned aerial vehicles...