Since the NSA's mass data collection against Americans is the hot topic du jour, some of you may be wondering what the average American can do to reduce their digital "footprint" in the name of privacy. The below primer is an effort to collect various techniques in one convenient place...

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Governments will not be able to detect every suspicious interaction that takes place on phone and Internet networks, experts have said.

Schools are failing to keep up with new technology and leaving pupils' privacy under threat, an expert panel says.

Is it just me or does the entire news media — as well as all the agitators and self-righteous bloviators on both sides of the aisle — not understand even the rudiments of electronic intercepts and the manner in which law enforcement actually uses such intercepts? It would seem so. Because the national eruption over the rather inevitable and understandable collection of all raw data involving telephonic and internet traffic by Americans would suggest that much of our political commentariat, many of our news gatherers and a lot of average folk are entirely without a clue. You would think that

Rand Paul challenges the NSA in the Supreme Court, raising critical questions about privacy and government overreach.

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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk column: Government Spying: Should We Be Shocked?

I have been fielding a decent number of calls and emails from reporters on the NSA PRISM scandal. A lot of people are trying to synthesize reasonable technical explanations for how the NSA could im…

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Richard Stallman says web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time

Strongly-worded denials issued by Apple, Facebook and Google about their co-operation are followed by further revelations

A 26-year-old farm dweller who helped expose the rape of a teenage girl is facing up to 5x more jail time than the high school football members who

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You may be aware of press reports alleging that Internet companies have joined a secret U.S. government program called PRISM. As Google’s CEO and Chief Legal Officer, we wanted you to have the facts.

Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration

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