The USA Patriot Act, the law granting the government vast surveillance powers adopted in the wake of September 11, turns a decade old Wednesday. Yet the law seemingly is being invoked far more to t
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Google reports that U.S. government requests for user data for use in criminal investigations continues to rise, even as a bill to require an officer to get a judge’s approval to get at a cit
Twenty-five years ago Friday, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that for the first time provided Americans with sweeping digital-privacy protections.
The law came at a time when e-ma
Two years before the Bavarian state in Germany began using a controversial spy tool to gather evidence from suspect computers, German authorities approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation abou