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Here’s One Way You Can Get Rid of Most of the Damning Information About You on the Web

By Elizabeth Preza If you’re one of the millions who use Google services everyday, you might be concerned about the troves of data the company has gathered on everything from your daily habits to your porn preferences. Now, in an … Continue reading

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NSA reportedly using radio waves to tap offline computers

By Steven Musil The National Security Agency is using secret wireless technology that allows it to access and alter data on computers, even when they are not connected to the Internet, according to a New York Times report. Since 2008, … Continue reading

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Which cell phone carriers are protecting privacy?

By The Stream Team The office of Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) recently published letters from seven major cell phone carriers that replied to his request for information on how often they received and complied with law enforcement requests for customer data in … Continue reading

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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

By Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson, and Barton Gellman The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using “cookies” and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The … Continue reading

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NSA Infiltrating Online Games Like World of Warcraft and Second-Life

By Alex Kane Players of fantasy games like World of Warcraft are usually worried about their character dying or running out of money. But new documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that they should have another concern: government spying. The … Continue reading

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Could privacy-protecting software become a new Internet standard?

By MIT Technology Review Following NSA surveillance revelations, talks advance on making the privacy-protecting tool Tor an Internet standard. The Internet’s main engineers have asked the architects of Tor—networking software designed to make Web browsing private—to consider turning the technology … Continue reading

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NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests

By Siobhan Gorman National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said. The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last … Continue reading

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Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and Other Telecoms Fighting to Cash In… on You

By Lynn Stuart Parramore They call it “modernizing the rules.” We call it “cashing in on your privacy.” Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, DIRECTV, and other giant U.S. cable and telecommunications companies are going hard-core with an aggressive anti-consumer agenda … Continue reading

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How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer

By Clive Thompson Joseph Bonicioli mostly uses the same internet you and I do. He pays a service provider a monthly fee to get him online. But to talk to his friends and neighbors in Athens, Greece, hes also got something much … Continue reading

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9 Household Items That Could Be Spying on You

By Adam Levin For Americans concerned about their privacy, the NSA data grabs are daunting, but what about the data grabs happening inside your own home, perpetrated not by the government but by your coffee machine? Consider every appliance and … Continue reading

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