Police State

The man harassed by FBI for wearing Google Glass in a theater was in Columbus, Ohio.

Ukraine government identifies protesters and sends them a mass text message order to disperse.

"Three cellphone companies in Ukraine ... denied that they had provided the location data to the government or had sent the text messages, the newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda reported. Kyivstar suggested that it was instead the work of a 'pirate' cellphone tower set up in the area."

Political profiling is another reason to create privacy technology.

I bet there are way more than two dozens servers undermining Tor.

Verizon reports police forced it to turn over information an outrageous number of times.

"Verizon on Wednesday released its first transparency report, revealing that it received more than 164,000 subpoenas and between 1,000 - 2,000 National Security Letters in 2013. The report, which covers Verizon's landline, Internet and wireless services, shows that the company also received 36,000 warrants, most of which requested location or stored content data."

That's crazy.

Snowden denies receiving Russian help for NSA leak.US threats to kill him prompt Snowden to seek extra protection from Russian government. That's scary and sad.

Plutocrat Bill Gates supports government spying. That's why Microsoft products can't be trusted.