Fri 13 Mar 2015
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee approved a cybersecurity bill during a secret session on Thursday, marking the next step in a process that critics warn will nefariously expand the government’s already substantial surveillance powers. (more…)
Fri 13 Mar 2015
The makers of Hello Barbie say these fears are misplaced. “ToyTalk and Mattel will only use the conversations recorded through Hello Barbie to operate and improve our products, to develop better speech recognition for children, and to improve the natural language processing of children’s speech,” ToyTalk said in a statement. “Parents must grant consent…for us to collect and use the recordings for these purposes,” the company added in an email. (more…)
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Juan Méndez says he has been waiting more than two years for access to a range of state and federal prisons and asks: ‘Is the United States hiding something?’ (more…)
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Sat 7 Mar 2015
The past year has been successful overall for former Guantánamo child prisoner Omar Khadr, who returned to his native Canada in late 2012 to serve the remainder of his military commission sentence there following conviction in 2010. (more…)
Tue 3 Mar 2015
Former CIA director accused of giving classified documents to his mistress while in charge of agency (more…)
Tue 3 Mar 2015
Higher education has always been fraught with notable inequities and anti-democratic tendencies, but it also once functioned as a crucial reminder of both its own limitations and the potential role it might play in attacking social problems and deepening the promise of a democracy to come. (more…)
Mon 2 Mar 2015
Emails released by CAGE revealed how MI5 repeatedly tried to recruit Mohammed Emwazi as an informant and put him on a terror watchlist to stop him leaving Britain (more…)