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Air marshals have conducted surveillance on thousands of unknowing Americans under the `Quiet Skies` program.

Computer scientists at MIT and IPRI propose a new cryptographic system to improve accountability of government surveillance while maintaining enough confidentiality for the police to do their jobs.

A recently exposed government surveillance program has come under fire, for allowing the Transportation Security Administration to track citizens not suspected of any crimes. CBS 2`s Mike Puccinelli reports.
Newly released documents confirm what critics have long suspected—that the National Security Agency, a component of the Defense Department, is engaged in unconstitutional surveillance of Americans` communications, including their telephone calls and emails.

Congress today missed a historic opportunity to reform an unconstitutional surveillance law, instead passing a version that makes it worse. Both Democrats and Republicans deserve sharp criticism for continuing to allow the NSA to engage in mass, warrantless spying.(You can see how your member of Congress voted here and here, so they can be held accountable.)

A new bill introduced today in the Senate provides necessary protections from NSA surveillance programs. The USA Rights Act, introduced by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and eleven other Senators would provide meaningful reforms to one of the government’s most powerful surveillance...
Lately, the Pakistani government has raised hackles over its surveillance policies of social media

News about surveillance of citizens by government. Commentary and archival information about surveillance of citizens by government from The New York Times.
Much of the focus has been on government surveillance, though there are also significant concerns about how businesses use data.
As the push for more digital privacy grows, the question is whether the courts or lawmakers will step up to protect our rights—or if it will fall through the cracks.
The book Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment, Christopher Slobogin is published by University of Chicago Press.
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