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Investigate the NSA
Josh Levy
June 18, 2013
Mass surveillance and democracy are like oil and water: They just don’t mix. Millions agree. And already close to 220,000 people have joined the movement at StopWatching.Us to urge Congress to investigate the National Security Agency’s spying programs.
Five Questions for the Next FCC Chief
Timothy Karr
June 18, 2013

Tom Wheeler, the White House’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission, was for years a well-heeled lobbyist for cable and wireless companies. He also served the president’s 2008 and 2012 election campaigns as a top “bundler,” raising more than $700,000 from undisclosed donors in support of Obama.
Five Things You Need to Know About NSA Surveillance
Timothy Karr
June 14, 2013
Watching conventional wisdom form in Washington can be appalling. The emerging consensus on surveillance this past week has D.C.’s pundit class saying that privacy violations are a small price to pay for keeping Americans safe. But conventional wisdom is wrong.
Because Privacy
Candace Clement
June 14, 2013
You don’t know what I do on the Internet. Because I am really good at privacy. I have expertly set my Facebook settings. People come to me for advice on these matters. Strangers cannot mess with me.
Gannett Gobbles Belo, Gains Serious Consolidated Weight
Amy Kroin
June 13, 2013
Listen to Gannett CEO Gracia Martore for a sec, and you’ll see she’s all about fostering good local journalism. Seriously.
We Knew We Were Being Spied On
Noah Gordon
June 13, 2013

The recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs came as a shock for much of the nation. But here’s the thing about my so-called “millennial” generation: We’ve known all along that we’re being watched.
Dancing Around the First and Fourth Amendments
Timothy Karr
June 12, 2013
Whether you think spying is OK or not depends on your relationship to the information being collected. If you’re on the gathering end, the invasion of someone else’s privacy doesn’t seem like a big deal. But if you’re the one whose private life is being pried into, this kind of surveillance seems like a very big deal indeed.
The Government May Be Reading This Blog Post
Josh Levy
June 11, 2013
The government is spying on you. In fact, the National Security Agency may be reading this very blog post. So the Free Press Action Fund has teamed up with Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future and other groups to launch StopWatching.Us — a call for Congress to investigate the NSA’s privacy-killing surveillance schemes.