Government spying is a problem for everyone. But people of color, religious minorities, and political dissidents are far more likely to be victims of unwarranted monitoring.
Mass Surveillance Isn’t Colorblind
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What Hillary Clinton Got Wrong About Edward Snowden
The former secretary of state attacked the NSA whistleblower without bothering to get her facts straight.
Citizenfour’s Personality Problem
In focusing more on his travails than his revelations, a new film on Edward Snowden does just what Snowden himself had hoped to avoid.
Our National Security State Knows Everything about You but Nothing about the World
Americans are trading away their privacy, civil liberties, and billions of tax dollars for an intelligence complex that never seems to know what’s going on in the world.
Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
The Last Commencement Address
The Class of 2014 enters a shadowy world of corporate and state surveillance.
The Five Commandments of Barack Obama
How well has Barack Obama lived up to his own standards on civil liberties?
Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
A strong global right to electronic privacy demands recognition, in U.S. law and internationally.
The Surveillance Blitz
Our privacy is getting hit from two sides — from corporations as well as the government.
SOTU: Obama Grades His Foreign Policy
Former law professor Barack Obama went into surprising depth on issues of war and peace during his fifth State of the Union address. Here’s how he should grade himself.