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Appealing amendments: NSA lawsuit gets another chance
Many citizens see Edward Snowden as the linchpin that finally led to a flood of challenges and lawsuits against the National Security Agency (NSA) for its indiscriminate search and seizure of Internet...
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Use a VPN at Worlds to stay in touch with everyone back home!
Don’t lose touch with your friends and family when you’re ripping up the track at Worlds. You’ve worked your butt off to get this far. You train hard. You stay positive. You set goals—and a...
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He ate a tablet to avoid police arrest - #WTFWednesday
Usually when you swallow a tablet, it’s for medicinal purposes. You feel better afterwards. But for one man in St. Petersburg, Russia, eating a tablet meant chowing down on something more of the com...
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Hackers can remotely control your car - #WTFWednesday
You think you’re in control of your car. You’re driving down the highway at 75mph, singing along to your favorite song, when weird things start to happen. First, the radio station changes to somet...
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Germany is spending $3 million to build its own PRISM
After Edward Snowden exposed US government’s mass surveillance operations, most of the world was appalled. Germany was among the many countries to denounce the NSA, but behind the scenes the Europea...
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Facebook can identify you even if it can't see your face - #WTFWednesday
It’s creepy enough that Facebook can recognize your face in photos. Even if you didn’t upload it yourself, Facebook can spot you and let other people tag you in any picture uploaded to the site. T...
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Windows 10 has weak default privacy settings
Windows 10 is here. Generations of Microsoft users have learned to be wary of major upgrades, but this one has a tidal wave of buzz behind it. Users are hungry for insights to help them decide whether...
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AT&T happy to help NSA spy on millions
This post was originally published on August 24, 2015. When Edward Snowden told the world the NSA had friends in the American telecom industry, he didn’t name names. Nor did the documents he release...
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Spotify responds to backlash against 'creepy' new privacy policy
This post was originally published on August 25, 2015. When Spotify launched in 2008, it was heralded as a return to the glory days of Napster, when all music was free. In a sense, this is still true;...
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Should exercising your right to be forgotten be forgotten?
In 2006, the “right to be forgotten” became law in the European Union, allowing individuals to demand that outdated information about them be removed from search results. But a new ruling by the E...
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