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The Terrifying Ways Google Is Destroying Your Privacy

David Rosen, AlterNet. May 20, 2012.

Google appears to have morphed from a corporation that proclaims, “Don’t be evil” to one insisting that users “Join the Borg.”

What is Google Doing With the Contents of Your Hard Drive?

David Sirota, AlterNet. May 3, 2012.

When you save files to Google’s new hard-drive folder in the cloud, the terms of service you are required to agree to gives Google “worldwide license" to your content.

Are "Sentient Cities" That Track Your Personal Data To Design Your Life For You On the Way?

Will Doig, Salon. April 29, 2012.

Humans will act in ways that even the smartest computer model can fail to anticipate — which is fine, until you put your entire city in its hands.

6 Things You Need to Know About the Government's New Spy Law (CISPA)

Scott Lemieux, AlterNet. April 18, 2012.

CISPA would allow information sharing between corporations and the government, and presents serious dangers to individual privacy.

13 Ways You Can Be Tracked By the US Government

Bill Quigley, AlterNet. April 9, 2012.

Here's how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people.

National Security State: How the Intelligence Bureaucracy Ate Our World

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. April 4, 2012.

The government is collecting more and more data on more and more Americans.

How Tracking Tools in Your Car Can Reveal What You Say, Where You Go, and What You Do

Paul Vachon, Miller-McCune Magazine. March 27, 2012.

The amazing new communication technologies in cars can greatly enhance the driving experience, but they may compromise privacy.

5 Ways America Is Betraying Its Best Values in Conflicts With Rest of the World

Karen Greenberg, TomDispatch.com. March 19, 2012.

In 2012 it looks like we can expect the Obama administration to continue to barrel down the path that has already taken us far from the country we used to be.

8 Creepy Spy Technologies That Can Be Hitched to Your Neighborhood Drones

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. March 13, 2012.

America's cities may soon be swarming with surveillance drones equipped with high-tech snooping tools.

How Your Phone Company Can Screw You Over -- And Probably Will

Jamilah King, Colorlines.com. March 11, 2012.

Big Brother is watching, and there aren’t many rules to say how much he can see, particularly using the mobile devices on which American rely.

You Are Being Tracked Online: Here Are 5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy

David Rosen, AlterNet. March 6, 2012.

If you listen carefully online, you’ll hear a deep sucking sound -- that's the sound of all your personal data being gobbled up by digital service providers.

How Team Obama, the GOP, and Tea Partiers Are All Intruding on Your Rights

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. February 12, 2012.

In the Constitution, "security" means protection from our law enforcers, not by them.

7 Privacy Threats the Constitution Can't Protect You Against

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. February 4, 2012.

When it comes to a spate of new technologies, our privacy protections are wildly outdated.

Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off

David Rosen, AlterNet. December 28, 2011.

A series of ongoing battles delineate the boundary of what, in the digital age, is personal, private life and information.

Our Right to Privacy Has Been Systematically Shrunk. What's Left?

Patricia J. Williams, The Nation. November 28, 2011.

If the government wants to track us, it has never been easier. The ubiquitous and relatively invisible private collection of data serves as a sort of outsourcing of surveillance.

How the US Justice Department Legally Hacked my Twitter Account

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Comment Is Free. November 13, 2011.

Icelandic politician and former WikiLeaks volunteer Birgitta Jónsdóttir's Twitter records were handed over to the government by a US judge.

Biometrics at Pizza Hut and KFC? How Face Recognition and Digital Fingerprinting Are Creeping Into the U.S. Workplace

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. September 26, 2011.

Biometric technology is being used to more closely track low-wage workers, already desperate in a bad economy.

What Awful Reality TV and Suburban Living Have to Do With the Tea Party's Lack of Empathy

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. September 20, 2011.

The Tea Parties are partly a product of the suburbs, where social isolation leaves communication about social mores to reality TV. Is it any wonder the movement lacks empathy?

Will Riots In The Streets Lead To Crackdowns On Internet Freedom?

Jeff Jarvis, The Guardian. August 11, 2011.

Because the internet is a form of the public, restrictions on social media could be applied to the streets (and vice versa).

You Can Get Sued for Downloading Porn? Producers Crack Down by Exposing Illegal Downloaders

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. August 4, 2011.

A new kind of lawsuit is targeting illegal porn downloads--unsurprisingly, defendants are settling rather than being named.

Can We Trust Corporations That Profit Off Our Information? For Facebook, Twitter, Google and More, You're The Product

Carne Ross, Comment Is Free. July 8, 2011.

The fight to control our own private information online is ultimately a political battle.

The Latest Creepy Step From Facebook: Facial Recognition Technology

Beth Wellington, Comment Is Free. June 15, 2011.

Is Facebook's new facial recognition tool designed to make the site more useful to users or to boost its value for executives?

The Worst Thing About Weinergate? The Total Obliteration of Sexual Privacy by Ideologues Like Andrew Breitbart

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. June 7, 2011.

This scandal may represent the end of the presumption of sexual privacy for anyone people like Andrew Breitbart deem interesting enough to harass.

Is Your Mobile Phone Transmitting Your Private Information to Corporations?

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. June 3, 2011.

Our mobile phones and computers are storing and sharing more and more personal information--but do we have control over who sees it?

Senate Probes Privacy Practices of Google and Apple

Nadia Prupis, TruthOut.org. May 12, 2011.

Executives from Google and Apple defended their mobile privacy policies at a Congressional hearing as Sen. Franken warned of reports of secret user data collection.

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