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The NSA Raven: an update of Poe’s famous verse
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...
Protecting Email Privacy is First Step to Ending Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
With only one day left for the White House petition to reform ECPA, TF President Berin Szoka took to RedState to illustrate just how important this fight is in...
Slashdot Interviews TF’s Berin Szoka About Online Privacy
Yesterday, TF President Berin Szoka appeared on Slashdot.org to take questions about ECPA and other government policies that impact users’ online privacy. The lively conversation...
What’s So Bad About ECPA?
ECPA is the law that is supposed to protect your digital data from unreasonable search. What’s wrong with it? Tons. What does that mean? Your...
Google Transparency Report Reveals More Demands for Data, Less Judicial Oversight
Yesterday, Google released its Transparency Report confirming what we already assumed: the government is demanding more personal data and using fewer formal requests. Since 2009, requests for Google...
Bush’s Commerce Secretary blasts NSA spying as hurting US IP owners worldwide
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...