Tag: Surveillance

Glenn Greenwald: Snowden Will Use New Twitter Account To Join The Debate Over Privacy

Social Media

Whistleblower Edward Snowden joined Twitter last week — a decision that journalist Glenn Greenwald said was a long time coming. Greenwald, who worked with Snowden to reveal the National Security Agency's mass surveillance program, joined HuffPost Live on Monday to discuss Snowden's presence on the social media site. “It's definitely something that he's been thinking about doing for quite a long

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A Law Enforcement Surveillance Tool That Tracks Phones? Shhh! It’s Secret

Mobile Tech

A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials must sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from saying almost anything about the technology. Any disclosure about the technology, which tracks cellphones and is often called StingRay, could allow criminals and terrorists to circumvent it, the

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