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#185: Law Enforcement Seeks Data Abroad
In the Digital Age, your data could be stored anywhere in the world, regardless of where you live. So happens when your police department is...
#184: Sex Toy Hacking
Are vibrators, dildos, and other sex toys the next frontier in hacking and surveillance? Some tech experts say this creepy scenario has already arrived. Hackers...
#173: NSA Checks Itself?
Last week, the National Security Agency (NSA) announced it was ending a surveillance practice known as “about collection.” It’s one piece of a larger puzzle...
#168: FBI and Facial Recognition
Would you agree to stand in a police line-up if you never committed a crime? Probably not. But if you have a drivers’ license, you...
#166: Hacking the CIA
Earlier this month, Wikileaks published 9,000 pages of hacked CIA files. The haul, dubbed “Vault 7,” catalogues some of the spy agency’s hacking techniques, including...
#164: Blogging in Ethiopia
Blogging in the United States isn’t risk free. You might get deluged by trolls, or even receive death threats. But it’s nothing compared to what...