Ryan Lizza: Why Won't Obama Rein in the N.S.A.?
Instead of shutting down or scaling back the N.S.A.'s programs, Obama has worked to bring them into narrow compliance with rules that often contradict the views he expressed when he was a senator ...
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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking ...
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11 Co-ops You Didn't Know Were Co-ops
People act like the sharing economy is some completely new market phenomenon. But the ethos of the sharing economy (shared work, shared ownership, and shared benefit) is embedded in the cooperative
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Epic mail fail: Indian minister in charge of secure email policy uses Hotmail
India has been drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications in the wake of US spying disclosures. However, the official who drafts the new rules still uses Hotmail. The ...
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Police In Thailand Lay Down Vests and Barricades In Solidarity With Protestors
In a stunning turn of events today in Thailand, riot police yielded to the peaceful protesters they were ordered to harass and block. They police removed barricades and their helmets as a sign of s...
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WTO salvages historic $1 trillion trade deal
The World Trade Organization has formally approved a historic package of agreements after over a decade of negotiations. Trade talks among 159 world economies came to an end after Cuba dropped its ...
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Middle America assails Washington machine as indifferent and 'above us'
MASON, Ohio -- America has met the enemy, and it is Washington. That was the message from a focus group of 11 Cincinnati-area voters, who issued a scathing and impassioned indictment Wednesday of ...
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Charity is not a substitute for justice
On November 15, thousands of people in San Francisco worked together to make an ailing child's wish come true. Miles Scott, a five-year-old boy recovering from leukaemia, dreamed of becoming ...