by PPJC Admin2 | October 5, 2016 | Current News, PPJC Picks
by Andrew Crocker and Mark Rumold Electronic Frontier Foundation In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users’ incoming emails, in real time. There’s...
by PPJC Admin2 | May 11, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Jenna McLaughlin The Intercept_ The Senate Judiciary Committee summoned a handful of cybersecurity, privacy, and national security experts on Tuesday to lay out the pros and cons of reauthorizing the law the NSA says authorizes it to collect hundreds of millions of...
by PPJC Admin2 | April 29, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Mike Mesnick Techdirt enators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein are not giving up that quickly on their ridiculous and technically ignorant plan to outlaw real encryption. The two have now penned an op-ed in the WSJ that lays out all the same talking points...
by PPJC Admin2 | April 25, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Dan Froomkin The Intercept_ A bipartisan group of lawmakers is none too happy that the executive branch is asking them to reauthorize two key surveillance programs next year without answering the single most important question about them. The programs, authorized...
by PPJC Admin2 | April 15, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Deirdre Fulton Common Dreams Reflecting the CIA’s “increasing focus on monitoring social media,” the spy agency’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, has made investments in four social media mining and surveillance firms, The...
