Tag: Government

Building facade with columns and an eye.
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Government hacking: How countries surveil their own citizens
There have been numerous incidents in which governments have broken into encrypted apps. This puts your privacy at risk and raises cybersecurity concerns.
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How to survive an internet shutdown
With internet freedoms on the decline and internet shutdowns on the rise, read this guide on how to survive political internet blackouts.
Microchip manipulating marionette
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New AI tech bodes ill for identity theft, scams, and propaganda
Artificial intelligence like GPT-3 is advancing deepfakes by imitating real faces, voices, and words. This could spell trouble for the future of humanity.
An eye with a fingerprint.
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Biometric data collection around the world
What biometric records does your country have on you? We look at how 10 countries, including U.S., Australia, and China, collect and use biometric data.
Julian Assange.
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Quick biography: Julian Assange
The divisive figure founded WikiLeaks, which gained worldwide fame in 2010 for publishing secret Afghan and Iraq war files.
Statue of Liberty torch with a hand reaching down.
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U.S. Senate to vote on EARN IT bill, endangering encryption
The widely criticized EARN IT bill, which might eradicate end-to-end encryption, is now up for voting by the U.S. Senate.
A broken Open Technology Fund logo.
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The U.S. wants to stop funding open-source projects. Here’s why that’s...
You may not have heard of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), but you’ve probably used tools that have gotten...
A door on a wall of code.
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The battle to outlaw end-to-end encryption in the U.S. is heating...
This post was originally published on July 2, 2020. Following the introduction of the EARN IT bill in the U.S....
CCTV camera with a credit card on it.
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What happens to your privacy if you go completely cashless?
Swiping a card or using your phone to pay for things is undoubtedly convenient but comes with obvious privacy...
An illustration of a crowd of people, all wearing masks, under a surveillance camera.
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Covid-19’s biggest casualty will be the further degradation of our individual...
History, as they say, often repeats itself. And we’ve definitely seen this before. It took a cataclysmic event to sow...

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