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Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.
On the subversive fiction of East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig
We need new privacy law for the digital age.
The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.
The “nothing to see here” tone of a recent intelligence report shows Obama is not concerned about our civil liberties. That is why we should be.
The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.
The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.
Is it naïve to see whistleblowing as a form of civil disobedience?
The internet has become an environment of total tracking and total control.
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Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.
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We invited poets to contribute new works, entering into a larger dialogue on what it means to have open eyes and ears in the twenty-first century. Poems by Armantrout, Ashbery, Bernstein, Pinsky, and others.
We are at a critical point in the history of our civil liberties.
In the post-Snowden world, it is hard to imagine a more consequential fork in the road.
Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.
Did you know that when you buy a mobile phone, you waive any right to privacy in your movements?
If we already know the government violated the law, the fact that its actions were subject to oversight does not excuse the violation.
On the limitations of secret judicial review.
By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.
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