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The NSA Raven: an update of Poe’s famous verse

December 11, 2013

In a refreshing break from our typical prose, TF’s Jon Henke critiques the NSA’s countless surveillance programs in a reworking of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” in...


Bush’s Commerce Secretary blasts NSA spying as hurting US IP owners worldwide

November 8, 2013

This morning, at the Chamber of Commerce’s Global IP Summit, Carlos Gutierrez warned that U.S. companies trying to enforce their copyrights, patents and trademarks in countries...


The first rule of FISA Court is “You do not talk about FISA Court”

September 17, 2013

Privacy advocates are furious at today’s report in The Guardian that no telcos ever challenged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) orders but they miss the point: classifying legal...


NRA v. NSA: Gun Rights = Privacy Rights

September 5, 2013

It would be absurd to think that the Congress would adopt and maintain a web of statutes intended to protect against the creation of a...


Cameron Kerry Responds to NSA Concerns, Outlines Baseline Privacy Legislation

August 28, 2013

Cameron Kerry today blasted E.U. efforts to start a digital trade war using European outrage at NSA surveillance as a pretext.  In a speech given given today at...


Coalition Calls for House to Adopt Amendment Defunding Suspicionless Spying

July 24, 2013

Today, TechFreedom signed a coalition letter that calls on the House of Representatives to adopt an amendment defunding suspicionless spying.  The so called Amash Amendment is...