Decrypted Matrix

Tag: Domestic Spying

  • Hate Drones, Love Privacy? Manufacturer Douglas McDonalad Says You’re A Criminal

      “If you’re concerned about it, maybe there’s a reason we should be flying over you, right?” said Douglas McDonald, the company’s director of special operations and president of a local chapter of the unmanned vehicle trade group. LAKOTA, N.D. – The use of unmanned aerial drones, whose deadly accuracy helped revolutionize modern warfare high…

  • Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance

    Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance

    We speak with Jacob Appelbaum, a computer researcher who has faced a stream of interrogations and electronic surveillance since he volunteered with the whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks. He describes being detained more than a dozen times at the airport and interrogated by federal agents who asked about his political views and confiscated his cell phone and…

  • CISPA: What Is It and How Is It Like SOPA? (infographic)

    CISPA: What Is It and How Is It Like SOPA? (infographic)

    Check out this infographic on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act (CISPA), a bill making its way through U.S. Congress now. Why are Facebook, AT&T and various other tech companies supporting it? Click here to see why those company reps say they are pro CISPA. CISPA infographic. Proponents say it’s about national security. Facebook reps say the company…