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If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox
As reported on Wired. BY KEVIN POULSEN Photo: Peter Earl McCollough/WIRED While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail...
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Then and now: life in a divided Ukraine
As reported by The Verge. By Amar Toor As attention shifts toward Crimea’s referendum, Ukrainian activists look back on the months that changed their lives In April 1977, Ukrainian activist Myroslav...
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US Burns Through All High-Skill Visas For 2015 In Less Than A Week
As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm And then there were none: As expected, more people applied for high-skill and high-degree U.S. work visas in the first five days of the application period...
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US Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius To Resign
As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning. President Obama, according to the New York Times, has selected Sylvia Mathews Burwell of...
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There’ll be no escape from the FBI’s new facial recognition system
As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER If you thought that the NSA wanted too much personal information, just wait a few months. The EFF is reporting that the FBI’s new facial recognition database,...
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It’s time for the FCC to stand up for Americans instead of ruining the internet
As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek Cowardice and capitulation could mess up a vital utility The internet is fucked, and the US government is making it worse. Political cowardice caused the FCC to...
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Here’s The FCC’s Language Asking For Comment On Banning “Pay-For-Priority...
As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm After much sturm und drang, the Federal Communications Commission this morning voted to proceed on a set of controversial net neutrality rules. The proposed...
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Microsoft resists US government demand to seize offshore emails
As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Microsoft has filed a court challenge to a US government demand that it hand over emails from its data center in Ireland. That appears to be the first time a US...
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Backscatter X-ray gun will help police hunt contraband
As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT Though “strip-search” backscatter X-ray machines were pulled from US airports for privacy reasons, the tech has found a new home in the MINI Z portable scanner....
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There may be nothing America can do to save Iraq
As reported on The Verge. By Verge Staff Growing ISIS insurgency threatens to pull Obama back into Iraq, but his options are limited Less than four years after the withdrawal of American troops, Iraq...
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