You can ditch your computer and leave your cellphone at home, but you can't escape your DNA. It belongs uniquely to you—and, increasingly, to the authorities.
Biotechnology
Jul 12, 2013
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Yahoo received some 29,000 government requests for data on its users this year, with almost half coming from the United States, according to the company's global transparency report released Friday.
Internet
Sep 7, 2013
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From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted email programs to technology that sprinkles the Internet ...
Internet
Oct 13, 2013
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Facebook on Wednesday started processing data through its first server farm outside the United States, on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Hardware
Jun 12, 2013
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Brazil's communications minister is proposing giving emails the same level of legal protection afforded to letters sent by mail.
Internet
Aug 15, 2013
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Stung by public unease about new details of spying by the National Security Agency, President Barack Obama selected a panel of advisers he described as independent experts to scrutinize the NSA's surveillance programs to ...
Internet
Sep 22, 2013
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Internet users are taking a fresh look at "privacy" search engines that do not store data or track online activity, in light of the flap over US government surveillance.
Internet
Jun 22, 2013
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Brazil said Wednesday it is moving to secure its communications through its own satellite and digital networks to end its dependence on the United States, which is accused of electronically spying on the region.
Telecom
Aug 14, 2013
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A leading French newspaper says France's intelligence services have put in place a giant electronic surveillance gathering network.
Internet
Jul 4, 2013
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An independent oversight board reviewing secret U.S. government surveillance programs warned the Obama administration that national security agencies' rules governing surveillance are outdated and need to be revised to reflect ...
Internet
Aug 24, 2013
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