The nation’s major mobile carriers have amassed a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers that they share with police and advertisers — but keep hidden from the consumers th
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A House committee on Tuesday approved broad electronic eavesdropping powers that largely legalized the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
Google just unveiled numbers showing an alarming jump in the number of government demands for private user data. We took the technology giant to task for its report’s shortcomings. But at lea
The NSA says the agency would violate Americans’ privacy even more than it already has if it provided statistics on how many citizens it’s spying on via a loophole in a 2008 law.