Secrecy, Surveillance, and Misinformation: Lessons From Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Rereading the late senator in a post-Edward Snowden and Julian Assange era.
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National Security Agency
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Government Standards Agency ‘Strongly’ Suggests Dropping Its Own Encryption Standard
The decision follows revelations about the NSA’s covert influence on computer security standards.
Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
The companies that sell information about how much money you make—and whether you’re pregnant, divorced, or trying to lose weight—are facing new scrutiny.
Rebelling Against the New Surveillance: Designers Pioneer the Future of Privacy
Commercial products and artistic projects that hint at how we might protect ourselves from government detection in the future, should we so choose.
How the NSA’s High-Tech Surveillance Helped Europeans Catch Terrorists
"We were inside their computers."
Before It Was Your Phone
The NSA's eavesdropping and data-gathering may be unsettling, but it's only recently that we've begun to think of our telephone conversations as personal and private.
A Security Scholar Talks About the NSA Scandal’s Private Side
"If there’s full disclosure—we are monitoring your phone calls and we’re tracking your keystrokes, and you should just know that this is happening—people tend to be OK with it, because they can self regulate."
Who’s Hiding What? 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the NSA’s Snooping
Has the NSA been collecting all Americans' phone records, what surveillance powers does the government believe it has under the Patriot Act, and other unanswered questions.
Get Caught Up: The Best Stories on the Government’s Growing Surveillance
Must reads after the recent news about the National Security Agency and Prism.
Why Don’t Americans Seem to Care About Government Surveillance?
Prism and the NSA’s phone tapping programs were supposed to be emergency measures designed to combat terrorism. But what happens when the threat of terrorism is the norm?