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Privacy concerns make facebook the new bad guy

Networks
There was, for a time, a pretty clear moral hierarchy in the tech sector. Microsoft was the evil overlord, Apple the virtuous underling.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | May 26, 2010

Protecting liberty

Press Releases
Newspapers need to be stronger watchdogs about government attempts to intrude on individual rights.
By JEFF INGLIS | February 10, 2010

Cindy Bernard at the Mills Gallery, Do-Ho Suh at Tufts, ‘Human Nature(S)’ At The Worcester Art Museum
The immediacy of communicating personal information that Internet culture and high bandwidth provide is not part of the new exhibition at the Mills Gallery, which eschews digital technology altogether.
By EVAN J. GARZA | December 09, 2008

Ring of fire

The deadbeat FBI fails to pay its phone bills and jeopardizes its wiretapping program
An ugly squabble between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the nation’s biggest phone companies has, in one nasty blow, recast the image of all the entities involved.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | January 23, 2008

Evil genius

“Big Time” Cheney is completely shameless
You’ve got to hand it to Dick Cheney, vice president and fictional MAXIMUM RULER OF THE UNIVERSE.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | June 27, 2007

Civil-liberties tug-of-war

State politicians take a national stand
An amazing thing about legislative bodies is their ability to take stands on just about anything.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 20, 2007

The least you need to know

By law, privacy can be a matter of where and when
Gay Pride. It's a phase that has become almost meaningless in our contemporary culture.
By LISA KEEN | May 30, 2007

Unplugged

Rhode Island is poised for a wireless leap forward with the first-in-the-nation statewide network
An argument can made that just as the Industrial Revolution was sparked in Rhode Island, so, too, did the withering of the Industrial Age.
By MATT JERZYK | May 24, 2007

UMaine refuses to out downloading students

Privacy
While the battle over file-sharing continues unabated on college campuses across the country, University of Maine officials have offered a new stance.
By EMILY PARKHURST | April 26, 2007

UMaine refuses to out downloading students

Privacy
University of Maine officials are opposing recording-industry efforts against alleged illegal downloading of music.
By EMILY PARKHURST | April 18, 2007

They're watching you

Bugged Levis, unauthorized sex tapes, leaked medical records — is nothing sacred anymore?
A guide for privacy for Mainers and beyond.
By SARA DONNELLY | August 30, 2006

I'll be watching you

A new tracking technology could make today’s debates about warrantless spying seem quaint
When Conrad Chase, director of Barcelona’s Baja Beach Club, asked his VIP customers if they wanted a microchip implanted in their arms, many of them didn’t think twice.
By VANESSA CZARNECKI | May 04, 2006

Little Red ’Net

The battle for Internet freedom will not end with China
February 15 was a squirmy day for officials at Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | March 10, 2006

Frontier justice

As the Internet and other shifting technologies dominate our lives, is the EFF the new ACLU?
Log on. Check your Gmail. Click the URLs your friend just sent. One’s a blog entry about electronic voting machines, the other is a news story about warrantless wiretapping. Grit your teeth.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 09, 2006