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Supreme Court Rejects Conservative Effort To Rework Legislative Districts

Court unanimously rejects conservative argument that legislative districts should only count eligible voters, rather than total populations.

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Troy Drake votes with two of his children during the primary election at Boise Bible College in Garden City, Idaho, on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Idaho Republicans are headed to the polls to take part in the state's GOP presidential primary. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld Texas' method of outlining voting districts, rejecting a conservative argument that could have shifted significant voting power to predominately white, rural areas. The court found in Evenwell v. Abbott (pdf) that Texas did not violate the long-established "one person, one vote" doctrine in

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FBI’s “Outside Party” Revealed As Bureau Angles To Keep New Hack Secret

FBI is getting help from an Israeli software company in effort to unlock San Bernardino phone.

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By Nadia Prupis
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The FBI wants to classify its new "alternate" method of unlocking the suspected San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, keeping it secret even from Apple itself, according to new reporting. The Guardian confirmed with government officials on Wednesday that the technique does enable the FBI to get into Syed Farook's iPhone. That means the agency can

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Apple Warns FBI Could Make Them Turn On iPhone Cameras And Microphones Next

‘When they can get us to create a new system to do new things, where will it stop?’

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A man holds up his phone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in San Francisco. Protesters assembled in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass murders in California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

If the FBI successfully manages to force Apple to unlock the suspected San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, the government could use the precedent to require the tech company to remotely turn on users' iPhone microphones and cameras, Apple's senior vice president warned this week. Eddy Cue, speaking to Univision in a Spanish-language interview,

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White House To Reveal Drone Strike Death Toll, But Secrecy Still Reigns

“It’s not enough to tally up the drones’ body count—we need a thorough reassessment of the program itself.”

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By Nadia Prupis

The Pentagon on Monday announced it would reveal, for the first time, the number of deaths caused by U.S. military drone and other air strikes overseas since 2009, including civilians, in regions that have not been declared war zones. The disclosure, which is set to come annually from now on, will cover Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, and other

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ACLU Sounds Alarm As Obama Administration Plans Quiet NSA Expansion

“Before we allow them to spread that information further in the government, we need to have a serious conversation about how to protect Americans’ information.”

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Homeland Security logo reflected in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the agency’s secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)

Civil liberties advocates slammed reports on Friday that the Obama administration is poised to authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) to share more of its private intercepted communications with other U.S. intelligence agencies without expanding privacy protections. "Before we allow them to spread that information further in the government,

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New WikiLeaks Release Exposes ‘Most Highly Classified’ NSA Spy Ops

Among the NSA’s targets was UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. “If the Secretary General can be targeted without consequence then everyone from world leader to street sweeper is at risk,” says Julian Assange

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New documents published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday reveal more of the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) spying operations on foreign leaders, including its interception of climate talks between UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The cables, some of which are marked "Top Secret" and which WikiLeaks says are the

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Amid Battle With Apple, Memo Reveals Big Brother’s Plan B for Encryption

“They said they wouldn’t seek to legislate ‘backdoors’ in these technologies. They didn’t say they wouldn’t try to access the data in other ways.”

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A man looks at his cell phone as he walks on the street in downtown Madrid, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A secret National Security Council (NSC) "decision memo" shows that the government began ingratiating itself with the tech industry, and ordering its agencies to figure out how to circumvent encryption software and access private data in consumer devices, long before its privacy fight with Apple began, according to new reporting by

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