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Net Neutrality Dies: Is the Free and Open Internet Over or Just Beginning?
It seems that while internet activists and advocates of the free flow of information have been focused on the dangerous and looming Trans-Pacific Partnership, the debate for Net Neutrality has been absent from recent
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The Government’s Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained
"I find it hard to imagine why an internet kill switch would ever be a good idea, short of some science fiction scenario." The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the court just granted the
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Homeland Security must disclose ‘Internet Kill Switch,’ court rules
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must disclose its plans for a so-called Internet “kill switch,” a federal court ruled on Tuesday
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Homeland Security’s New $3.9 Billion Headquarters
President Barack Obama is trying to solve big problems in his proposed 2014 budget. His efforts to curtail entitlement spending have gotten most of the headlines. But he also seems determined to complete the
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DHS Using Video Games to Recruit Top Students as Cyber Warriors
In the last few years we have seen a major increase in so-called cyber security throughout the country. News that foreign hackers have attacked multiple US government agencies has been a drumbeat topic within
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Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites
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Facebook developing app that will track your every move – even when it’s turned off
Facebook is developing a new smartphone app to track the location of users in an effort to target them with localised adverts, according to reports. The app will help users to find friends who are
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Who’s Faking It? Pentagon “Cyber-Warriors” Planting “False Information on Facebook”
On November 22, 2012, the Los Angeles Times published an alarming piece of news entitled “Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age”. The “cyber-warriors” who are headed for organizations such as the
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HOW TO COMMUNICATE IF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN THE INTERNET
Scenario: Your government is displeased with the communication going on in your location and pulls the plug on your internet access, most likely by telling the major ISPs to turn off service. This is what
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