A privacy advocacy group has swayed Congress to hold a hearing next week into the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of monitoring social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as media reports and organizations, including The Drudge Report. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) recently obtained close to 300 pages of documents, as [...]
Created in the 1960′s, the original ECHELON network was designed as a signals intelligence data collection and processing network that listened in on all phone calls and faxes in the East Bloc during the height of the Cold War. It was reportedly created by United States intelligence services and operated by a host of agencies [...]
U.S. law enforcement agencies are exposing people to radiation in more settings and in increasing doses to screen for explosives, weapons and drugs. In addition to the controversial airport body scanners, which are now deployed for routine screening, various X-ray devices have proliferated at the border, in prisons and on the streets of New York. [...]
We have all been humiliated at the hands of the Transportation Security Administration, but this time the TSA may have to pay a price for stepping over the line. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is the latest victim. According to AP: “He was stopped briefly by security at the Nashville airport when a scanner found an [...]
Sparked by the nation’s so-called war on terrorism, the government has been charging full-throttle into another war — a war on liberty. Drawing on its almost limitless technological arsenal, the government surreptitiously tracks and spies on our every movement, places under surveillance our internet and cell phone communications, and screens our bodies and personal effects. [...]
This is what happens when you make the Internet mad. On Wednesday, a group of technology companies began an unusual form of protest: The firms shut down or replaced the content on their own popular Web sites with protest messages to show their unhappiness with two Internet-regulation bills grinding through Congress. They argue that the [...]
Violating the rules of the U.S. House. Inappropriately handing out the legislative powers of Congress. Upending the legislative process Usurping the powers reserved to the states in the U.S. Constitution. These are not accusations or charges stemming from actions by Congress and the White House, instead, these are accomplishments of Congress and the White House [...]
