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There were many disagreements during Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate in Detroit, but frontrunners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz agreed on one thing: Money buys influence in politics.
Cruz challenged Trump f […]

Facebook Rightfully Questions Claims That California Inmates Are Banned from Having a Social Media Presence

Up until last spring, Facebook had maintained a semi-secret channel for corrections facilities to file […]

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals on Wednesday upheld a historic decision by a state trial court that the warrantless use of cell-site simulators, or Stingrays, violates the Fourth Amendment.
The trial court […]

Over 90 “members of the Republican national security community” have now signed an open letter to express their united opposition to a Donald Trump presidency. The letter makes many reasonable criticisms of Trump […]

Interested in coding on Tor and getting paid for it by Google? If you are a student, we have good news for you: we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2016!
Here’s the facts: […]

The political and media establishments in the U.S. – which have jointly wrought so much destruction, decay, and decadence – recently decided to unite against Donald Trump. Their central claim is that the real […]

Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres has been assassinated in her home in Honduras. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras. In 1993, she co-founded […]

Although Thursday’s Republican debate was held in Detroit, the Flint water crisis was only brought up once, thanks to a question from Fox News moderator Bret Baier. Marco Rubio responded by praising Michigan G […]

After initially refusing to condemn an endorsement from former KKK leader David Duke, Donald Trump has faced a series of questions about why his campaign has been so embraced by Neo-Nazis and Klansmen. We speak to […]

In an extraordinary day for the Republican Party, the GOP’s past two presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, denounced Donald Trump, saying the current Republican front-runner is a danger to the n […]

Detroit: Hundreds Protest 11th GOP Presidential DebateFBI Arrests Trump Campaigner over 2014 Bundy Ranch StandoffJapan: PM Abe to Halt Construction of U.S. Military Base on OkinawaDemocrats Mount Pressure on […]

Court quashes Kazakhstan’s subpoena to Facebook for information regarding Respublika’s account 
The Kazakhstan government had its third major setback in its attempt to use the U.S. legal system to pursue one of i […]

As Apple fights a judge’s order to help the government hack an iPhone used by San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook, interested parties are weighing in with legal briefs and letters.
Perhaps the most  p […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation insisted that it was helpless.
The bureau told a judge in February that Apple has the “exclusive technical means” to try to unlock the contents of San Bernardino shooter Syed […]

MARK STRYNAR AND Andrew Lindstrom walked down the muddy bank of the Cape Fear River toward the water, sampling equipment in hand. It was the summer of 2012, and the scientists, who both work for the Environmental […]

THE CHEMICAL INTRODUCED by DuPont in 2009 to replace the surfactant PFOA causes many of the same health problems in lab tests that the original chemical did, including cancer and reproductive problems, according […]

Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Undermining iPhone Security Violates First Amendment Riverside, California—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and 46 technology industry experts, including inventors of m […]

EFF filed an amicus brief today in support of Apple’s fight against a court order compelling the company to create specific software to enable the government to break into an iPhone. The brief is written on behalf […]

The European Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce have finally announced the details of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, an agreement designed to ensure that personal data can flow between Europe and the U.S. […]

IN TWO RECENT high-profile cases that ended with the rare criminal conviction of police officers, prosecutors put forth similar statements. “This is not a law enforcement officer that committed these crimes,” Okla […]