U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans (Reuters) – A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to Christopher Fish 3 May 2014
Starting today, Yahoo will not honor Do Not Track settings Starting today, anyone visiting Yahoo will be tracked by default, regardless of whether they’ve enabled the Do Not Track setting on their browser. It’s a bold stance by Christopher Fish 2 May 2014
The Shaky Legal Foundation of NSA Surveillance on Americans What the final clause of the Fourth Amendment means in interpreting the government’s rights A secret opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court[recently released to the public](http: Christopher Fish 1 May 2014
People Are Calling for Fans to Boycott the L.A. Clippers. Do Boycotts Actually Work? The outrage over L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’sracist remarks [http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/27/should-nba-clippers-owner-donald-sterlin], caught on tape and published by TMZ over the weekend, has Christopher Fish 29 Apr 2014
justice Scalia set to play key role in Supreme Court smartphone case JusticeAntonin Scalia [http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/justice-system/antonin-scalia-PEHST001782.topic] , the Supreme Court’s new champion of the 4th Amendment, is likely to play a crucial role Tuesday when Christopher Fish 28 Apr 2014
Election The GOP has a demographic problem, and it looks like it could get even worse It’s no secret that Republicans have a demographic problem when it comes to national elections. But what many people don’t realize is that the GOP’s issues will Christopher Fish 28 Apr 2014
Activism Holder cancels graduation speech amid protests Attorney General Eric Holder canceled a speech to a graduating class of police cadets in Oklahoma City on Thursday, after crowds of Oklahomans flocked to the ceremony to protest his Christopher Fish 27 Apr 2014
Goodbye, Net Neutrality; Hello, Net Discrimination In 2007, at a public forum at Coe College, in Iowa, Presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked about net neutrality. Specifically, “Would you make it a priority in your first Christopher Fish 25 Apr 2014
In Aereo, Supreme Court Rightly Skeptical About Becoming Technology Regulators In the highly anticipated oral arguments ofABC v. Aereo [https://www.eff.org/cases/wnet-v-aereo]yesterday, the Supreme Court expressed serious concerns about the unintended consequences that their ruling could Christopher Fish 25 Apr 2014
The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan. FromThe Atlantic [http: Christopher Fish 23 Apr 2014
Meet the university students trying to send a spacecraft to the moon — for $10 million! [http://media.salon.com/2014/03/Buzz_Aldrin_and_the_U.S._flag_on_the_Moon_-_GPN-2001-000012-e1395431038771.jpg] One hundred and twenty students at Penn State University have their Christopher Fish 22 Apr 2014
Ordinary Americans are powerless, but the US isn’t really an oligarchy It’s not that ordinary Americans never get what they want from the political system. It’s just that they only get what they want if the elites want the Christopher Fish 20 Apr 2014
Investors attempt to save MtGox bitcoin exchange ### *MtGox is under threat of liquidation after it fell victim to an apparent digital heist in February in which $480m disappeared*## ![Photograph: Toru Hanai/REUTERS](http://static.guim.co.uk/ Christopher Fish 19 Apr 2014
What Will Become of Your Bitcoins When You Die? The Law Society is urging people to leave clear instructions for their intellectual property and digital media in case of death. Most of the digital legacy people leave behind when Christopher Fish 19 Apr 2014
Britain strips citizenship, drone strikes alleged terrorists LONDON — The letter informing Mohamed Sakr that he had been stripped of his British citizenship arrived at his family’s house in London in September 2010. Mr. Sakr, born and Christopher Fish 15 Apr 2014
UCSB’s Student Senate Approves Trigger Warning Right now, UCSB is at the center of a flurry of media attention that is depicting today’s college students as oversensitive, overly politically correct and even ‘trigger-happy’ with modern-day Christopher Fish 14 Apr 2014
Appeals Court Overturns Conviction of AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ [http://www.wired.com/content/images/2014/04/7692322752_f762c52e2c_o.jpg] A hacker sentenced to three and a half years in prison for obtaining the personal data of more Christopher Fish 14 Apr 2014
NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and Christopher Fish 12 Apr 2014