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In 2016, terror suspects and 7-Eleven thieves may bring surveillance to Supreme Court

(credit: Chris Wieland)

It has now been 2.5 years since the first Snowden revelations were published. And in 2015, government surveillance marched on in both large (the National Security Agency) and small (the debut of open source license plate reader software) ways.

Within the past year, Congress voted to end Section 215 of the Patriot Act—but then...

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Senators revive bill requiring tech sector to report online terror activity

(credit: US Senate)

One of the shooters in last week's deadly attack pledged her allegiance to ISIS on Facebook the same day she and her husband went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people in a San Bernardino County government building. In response, high-ranking Senators revived legislation Tuesday requiring the tech sector, like Facebook and Twitter, to...
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