First POST: Can You Hear Me Now?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, December 17 2013
Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon blasts the NSA's phone metadata collection program; Edward Snowden sees vindication in the preliminary ruling; the Internet Archive unveils an amazing visualization of the "geography of US TV news"; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Open Letters
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, December 9 2013
(Most) big tech companies come out swinging against the NSA's bulk surveillance programs; Change.org hits the 50 million-user mark; an analysis of Facebook profiles and search data suggests that millions of American men, especially in the south, are still in the closet; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Kinks
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, October 22 2013
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers:: The HealthCare.gov website mess is getting uglier; StopWatching.us comes under criticism from the liberal-left; Bloomberg's tech legacy for his successor; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Boom
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, October 16 2013
Glenn Greenwald's leaving The Guardian for a new journalism start-up financed by Pierre Omidyar; news from the Code for America Summit; HealthCare.gov's dismal sign-up numbers; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Harvesting
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, October 15 2013
Lost your address book? No worries, the NSA probably has it; Ezra Klein raps the failures of HealthCare.gov; Why Jack Dorsey's mother loves Twitter; and much, much more. Read More
The New Yorker Hopes "Strongbox" Is a Wiretap-Proof Sieve for Leaks
BY Miranda Neubauer | Thursday, May 16 2013
The New Yorker yesterday became the first outlet to implement DeadDrop, a new system for sources to submit information to journalists online in a more secure and anonymous way than, for example, email. Read More