Civil Liberties, Privacy, + Security

"If privacy is an essential component of personhood, how is personhood compromised by the information age, surveillance technologies, and other potential invasions of privacy? Similarly, what constitutes sufficient justification for the invasion of privacy by government,...

Pentagon: 'Cyber Attacks are Acts of War'

Pentagon Vows to Respond to Cyber Attacks with Military Force The Pentagon has declared that it will treat cyber attacks as acts of war, and will reserve the option to retaliate with military force. This comes on the heels of the attack on Lockheed-Martin, a major US ...

Pakistan to Yemen, Drone Attacks are Greatest Security Risk

With the May 5th Hellfire missile attack in Nissab in Yemen’s Shabwa province the United States has continued yet another campaign of military airstrikes inside a country that is thought to have a significant population of Taliban fighters. As in Pakistan, the US...

Are Cruise Ships Equipped To Handle Bomb Threats On The High Seas

The local news media is reporting that Royal Caribbean recently received a bomb threat aboard the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship. According to a news release by the U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Caribbean's reservation center in Wichita, Kansas received a call...

Facebook Leaked Personal Data to Advertisers says US Sec. Company

"US computer security firm Symantec on Tuesday said that Facebook accidentally left a door open for advertisers to access profiles, pictures, chat and other private data at the social network. Symantec discovered that certain Facebook applications leaked tokens that act...