Chicago police are using Minority Report-style tactics to try to predict who is going to commit a crime based on statistics. Pre-crime is here.
Tag - privacy
Matt Kibbe sits down with the Kentucky representative to find out exactly why his legislation can't seem to move forward.
Republican House leadership tried to jam through an expansion of the Patriot Act with almost no consideration. The bill, H.R. 5606, would have allowed the government to search your financial records without a warrant. Rep. Justin Amash rallied conservatives, libertarians, and civil...
Surveillance hawks attempted to use fear to ram through an unconstitutional expansion of the government’s surveillance powers.
If you or I get caught skirting the law, things generally do not work out well for us. If the FBI does it, they just get Congress to rewrite the law.
It has been three years since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency for engaging in bulk surveillance on American citizens, and since that time the debate over privacy, data security, encryption and espionage has continued to rage fiercely.
The rapid spread of free, strong and user-friendly encryption has panicked some members of Congress who have gone so far as to offer absurd proposals to try to ban strong encryption outright.
The Obama Administration's war on privacy and message encryption just got more complicated, proving once again that innovation will always work around government controls.