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No Justification for Spanish Internet Censorship During Catalonian Referendum
The ruthless efficiency with which the Spanish government censored the Internet ahead of the referendum on Catalonian independence foreshadowed the severity of its crackdown at polling places on October 1. We have previously written about one aspect of that censorship; the raid of the… Read More ›
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Anti-Monopoly Candidates Are Testing a New Politics in the Midterms
Austin Frerick couldn’t believe the numbers. Last year, while working as an economist at the Office of Tax Analysis in the Obama Treasury Department, Frerick co-wrote a paper on “excess returns,” which he describes as “a fancy way of saying… Read More ›
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They Helped Prosecutors After Escaping Death in a Smuggler’s Truck. Now They’re Being Deported.
It was a typical Saturday night at the Border Patrol checkpoint outside Laredo, Texas: cars and commercial trucks lined up and waiting to pass the last line of agents and cameras on the northbound highway. Every day there are thousands of… Read More ›
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How Arnold Mesches Turned His FBI Surveillance Files Into Eerily Prescient Works of Art
On August 6, 1956, Arnold Mesches had over 200 paintings stolen. When he returned to his Los Angeles art studio that day, the building’s glass front door was shattered. Someone had broken in. The paintings were gone, including a 30-painting… Read More ›
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How a Dubious CIA Document Is Fueling Tensions in Catalonia
Tensions are running high in Barcelona. Last month saw a terrorist attack on one of the city’s main thoroughfares, Las Ramblas, which killed a dozen people and injured more than 100. Now, Barcelona and the greater region of Catalonia are a… Read More ›
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Just How Unpopular, How Wrong on the Facts, How Misguided Is the FCC Proposal to Rollback Network Neutrality and Broadband Privacy?
As the U.S. Senate debates the re-nomination of the head of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, it is worth reflecting on just how wildly unsupported by the public and wrong the agency is on its effort to end an… Read More ›
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Will Patents Slow Artificial Intelligence?
We have written many times about why the patent system is a bad fit for software. Too often, the Patent Office reviews applications without ever looking at real world software and hands out broad, vague, or obvious patents on software… Read More ›
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The War on General-Purpose Computing Turns on the Streaming Media Box Community
For most of the lifetime of Kodi since its release as XMBC in 2002, it was an obscure piece of free software that geeks used to manage their home media collections. But in the past few years, the sale of pre-configured Kodi… Read More ›
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Phish For the Future
This report describes “Phish For The Future,” an advanced persistent spearphishing campaign targeting digital civil liberties activists at Free Press and Fight For the Future. Between July 7th and August 8th of 2017 we observed almost 70 spearphishing attempts against… Read More ›
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Stop Expecting Facebook and Google to Curb Misinformation — It’s Great for Business
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We Can Finally Identify One Of The Largest Holders Of Puerto Rican Debt
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Democracy Now! 2017-07-13 Thursday
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Is Turkey Becoming a Dictatorship?: Erdogan Claims Victory in Vote to Give President Sweeping Powers
April 17, 2017
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Europe's Courts Decide: Does U.S. Spying Violate Europe's Privacy?
October 3, 2017
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A troubling new tactic to keep bad patents from being tossed out
October 3, 2017