Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been…
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Net Neutrality and the United States FCC: Let’s talk about this abusive pattern of releasing controversial policies on major holidays
So the United States FCC has released its plans to eradicate Net Neutrality in the United States, on Thanksgiving, as it said it would….
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With laptops banned onboard aircraft, your data is no longer yours if you fly
New US regulations ban laptops on board some aircraft, requiring laptops to be in checked luggage. One of the first things you learn in…
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Would U.S. Congress find it acceptable that their phonecalls were recorded, sold, and published?
The United States Congress has decided that Internet Service Providers shall be Common Carriers but without the obligations of a Common Carrier. Specifically, which…
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With shock appeals ruling, the United States has effectively outlawed file encryption
An appeals court has denied the appeal of a person who is jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt files. The man has not been…
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Great: Now your sex toys are used to spy on you and sell your private habits, too
The makers of an Internet-connected sex toy have settled to pay a small amount to some 300,000 owners of a vibrator which was used…
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Old world squanders opportunity to tame bitcoin a little
The American SEC, which oversees financial institutions, has rejected a bid to create a traditional trading fund (an ETF) based on bitcoin. The trading…
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With the TPP and the TTIP gone, what threat to liberty comes next?
Asia Nikkei has just reported that the Trump administration has formally withdrawn from the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a protectionist agreement masquerading as a…
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Coding Freedom; Can Blockchain Technology Help Build A Foundation For Real Democracy?
The 2008 financial meltdown and disclosures of secret documents in recent years exposed widespread government overreach and corporate fraud and abuse. As trust in…
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How Newspeak Makes Real Libertarian Thought Impossible In The US
The United States is an Orwellian nightmare, and I don’t mean because of the NSA. Over decades, we’ve destroyed the difference between the words…
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