Did the EPA Prosecute and Jail a Mississippi Lab Owner Because of Her Activism?
Tennie White's work as an activist forced big corporations to clean up the messes they made in African-American communities. So the EPA put her in jail.
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Facing Data Deluge, Secret U.K. Spying Report Warned of Intelligence Failure
A secret report warned that British spies may have put lives at risk because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed.
New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship
This has always been intuitively clear. Now, there is mounting empirical evidence proving it.
WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide by a Single Judge
It is stunning to watch a single judge instantly shut down a key means of online communication for the world's fifth-largest country. But similar battles are inevitable.
Bill That Would Ban End-to-End Encryption Savaged by Critics
“Burr-Feinstein may be the most insane thing I've ever seen seriously offered as a piece of legislation. It is ‘do magic’ in legalese,” tweeted Julian Sanchez, a senior Cato Institute fellow studying privacy and technology.
Law School Sells Naming Rights to Secretive Antonin Scalia Fan
An anonymous $20 million gift to George Mason University was conditioned upon naming its law school after Scalia, truly honoring the late justice’s legacy of allowing corporations and the wealthy to buy influence under a shroud of secrecy.
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism
Top intelligence community lawyer Robert Litt says wider access to raw signals data will be for intelligence purposes, not law enforcement. Privacy advocates want more details.
DuPont May Dodge Toxic Lawsuits By Pulling a Disappearing Act
First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now the company plans to merge with Dow.
Apple Bug Exposed Chat History With a Single Click
A security vulnerability in the Mac version of Apple’s Messages app allowed users to be compromised by malicious links.
Oklahoma’s Insane Rush to Execute
Amid lingering doubts over Richard Glossip’s guilt, a new report slams the state’s bungled execution protocol while proposing new, improved ways to kill.