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Monsanto is best-known for its controversial use of genetically-modified organisms, and less well-known for being involved in the story ...

Techdirt has already noted how the NSA's massive spying programs around the world are costing US companies money through lost busine...

As Mike reported recently, the NSA has presented no credible evidence that its bulk metadata collection is stopping terrorist attacks,...

One of the most contentious aspects of the NSA's surveillance is the central belief by General Alexander and presumably many others ...

In Der Spiegel's recent revelations about the far-reaching nature of the NSA's spykit , it mentions several US companies, Samsun...

One of the bitter lessons we learned from Snowden's leaks is that the Internet has been compromised by the NSA (with some help from ...

A year ago, I wrote a piece about cloud computing's dark secret: that using it in Europe was probably equivalent to making all your fi...

During 2013, I've written a few articles about Mozilla 's attempt to give users greater control over the cookies placed on their ...

It's taken a while for Europeans to recover from the discovery that they are being spied upon by the NSA (with some help from its fr...

One of the reasons that the total surveillance programs of the NSA and GCHQ are possible is that computers continue to become more power...

As more information comes to light about the global snooping being conducted by the NSA and GCHQ, it is becoming clearer that much of it...

At the moment, the only half-way serious attempt at justifying the NSA's "take it all" approach to surveillance is to clai...

(The previous two parts of this essay appeared earlier.) Or maybe not. There is a rough consensus among cryptography experts that the theor...

(The first part of this three-part essay appeared yesterday.) The gradual but relentless shift from piecemeal, small-scale analogue eaves...

Netzpolitik.org is the leading site covering digital rights in German. It played a key role in helping to stop ACTA last year, and recently...

There aren't many upsides to Snowden's revelations that NSA is essentially spying on the entire Internet, all the time, but if on...

One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection . Because of its...

Here's a hugely important story that brings together three major threads. First, the continuing wrangling over the form that Interne...

The Internet may be a series of tubes, but those tubes have to be joined together. That takes place at Internet exchanges (IXs), where ...

It was expected that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, would raise the issue of NSA spying when she addressed the opening sessio...