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Federal Judge Allows EFF’s NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed

09 July

Federal Judge Allows EFF’s NSA Mass Spying Case to Proceed Original: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-judge-allows-effs-nsa-mass-spying-case-proceed Rejects Government’s State Secret Privilege Claims in Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama San Francisco – A federal judge today rejected the U.S. government’s latest attempt to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) long-running challenge to the government’s illegal dragnet surveillance programs. Today’s […]

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We need encryption for private communications

29 June

Original: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/29/google-facebook-data-encryption Assuring the security of private communications regardless of platform – email, VOIP, direct message – should be a top priority of the internetindustry in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s revelations that US and UK governments are tapping into the net’s traffic. The industry needs to at least come together to offer encryption for private communications as protection […]

The cost of photovoltaic solar…

24 June

Forecast: Cost Of PV Panels To Drop To $0.36/Watt By 2017 (via Clean Technica) The cost of photovoltaic solar panels is expected to drop to 36 cents per watt by 2017, according to new research by cleantech market research firm GTM Research. While this drop in solar panel prices will help to make solar affordable […]