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CIS & The Day We Fight Back
Today, Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society joins Greenpeace, Mozilla, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Libertarian Party, and an array of ideologicall…
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Bad Connection - The telecom industry should be embarrassed by its silence on surveillance.
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security matters for Google, confers with Pablo Chavez, Google director of publicity, while t…
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Asian firms should trust no one but the tech
It took a while, but it seems revelations that the U.S. government has been brazenly running surveillance across the globe have finally taken a toll on American…
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Google, Facebook and other tech giants object to secret government arguments
When it comes to national security and the Internet, it seems, there's classified information -- and then there are secret arguments about the information.I…
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Google imitates the black marker of US government censorship in latest transparency report
Google today released its latest transparency report with a stronger message for its users and the United States government, and more detailed reporting about t…
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Google Gets Record Number of User Data Requests From Governments
This year has brought the biggest expansion yet of government efforts around the world to gather user data from Google, one of the globe's most-used search…
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Google says US govt demands for data tripled in past three years
Government requests for data soared from 3,580 in 2009 to 10,918, Google said on Thursday -- and those are only the data demands the web giant is allowed to pub…
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Google warns of 'splinter net' fallout from U.S. spying
Search giant Google Inc on Wednesday warned that U.S. spying operations risk fracturing the open Internet into a "splinter net" that could hurt Americ…
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NSA files – live coverage of all developments and reaction
Welcome to our hub for all Edward Snowden, NSA and GCHQ-related developments around the world, as controversy over revelations leaked by the whistleblower conti…
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Brazil Legislators Bear Down on Internet Bill
Brazilian lawmakers continue to focus on an Internet bill that could force U.S. companies like Google Inc. GOOG +0.49% to open costly data centers in the count…
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NSA Transparency Hurts Americans’ Privacy, Feds Say With Straight Face
Adding limited public accountability to the NSA’s vast electronic spying programs would actually harm the privacy of Americans, Obama administration officials t…
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A Tale of Two Surveillance Reform Bills
NOVEMBER 1 UPDATE: I fixed the chart to correctly reflect that both bills authorized Amici participation and also allow the Constitutional Advocate to initiate…