Government Surveillance: How Worried Are You?
So the government's tapping vast amounts of internet data and tracking phone calls. How concerned are you?It's forever a balancing act: maintaining our privacy and civil liberties versus ensuring the...
View ArticleWhere do you stand on government surveillance?
On this week's show we discuss Thursday's revelations about government surveillance of both foreign internet content and domestic phone call records. The data news team at our parent station WNYC wants...
View ArticleHow to Disappear from the Internet
The specifics of a secret government surveillance program called Prism are still being uncovered, but last week it was revealed that for the past six years, the National Security Agency has been...
View ArticleWant to Disappear? Don't Fake Your Own Death
To disappear in the real world, you need an overseas bank account, some pre-paid cell phones and an uncanny awareness of where potential surveillance cameras might be hiding.According to former...
View ArticleEuropean Union Angered by N.S.A. PRISM Program
Public outrage continues over the revelation the N.S.A. has been surveilling internet data of companies like Google, Microsoft and Skype. But that outrage is not limited to U.S. borders.There are now...
View ArticleHow Much Did Congress Know About N.S.A. Surveillance?
Yesterday N.S.A. director Keith Alexander testified before a Senate committee in a previously-scheduled hearing about cyber-security. It was the first time an N.S.A. official was asked to publicly face...
View ArticleThe Ever Changing Story of the PRISM Program
Last Thursday brought leaks that about a government program called PRISM. But while the early reports described a program that had unilateral, unfettered access to companies like Google, Yahoo, and...
View ArticleJames Bamford on General Alexander, Head of the NSA
Wired magazine’s James Bamford talks about General Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general who’s the director of the National Security Agency, chief of the Central Security Service, and commander of...
View ArticleGraphic Designer Gives NSA PowerPoint a Makeover
The following blog post is by New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi.Imagine this: You flash your top-level security badge, settle into a government conference room as the lights dim and begin to watch a...
View ArticleBacklash to NSA's PRISM Program Spawns a Movement
In the wake of news that the National Security Agency is collecting vast amounts of digital data about the online activity of U.S. citizens, the federal government has said the program — known as PRISM...
View ArticleNSA Surveillance as a Teachable Moment?
What can we learn from the NSA's surveillance program? A lot, according to Chris Lawrence, senior director of the Mozilla Mentor Community. He calls the scandal's aftermath "a teachable moment."In a...
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