Here’s how to maximize the security of your most sensitive conversations — the ones that could be misinterpreted by an employer; be of interest to snooping governments; or allow a hacker to steal your identity.
Payday lending seemed like the perfect business to Phil Locke. Then he began to feel guilty. “I ruined a lot of lives.”
Internet companies have been waging a little-known war with the federal government over how much information companies are obligated to hand over.
Sense About Science purports to help the misinformed public sift through alarmist claims about health and the environment. But it has a disturbing history of promoting experts who turn out to have ties to regulated industries.
Facebook represents a new battleground in the long-running Israel-Palestinian conflict. Israeli officials blame social media for inciting violence, and arrests of Palestinians for Facebook posts have dramatically increased.
The first contestant in Donald Trump’s reality administration has left the West Wing.
Five hundred people convened in Oakland last weekend for the first national conference of the Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement.
The searches for terms “concerning a known U.S. person” were conducted on a massive NSA database ostensibly collected for foreign intelligence purposes.
The NSA is researching opportunities to collect foreign intelligence — including from internet-connected biomedical devices like pacemakers.
A Senate bill published late Monday night includes a new provision that would give the FBI more power to issue secret demands known as national security letters.
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