Carriers Got 1M Gov’t, Police Requests for Data in 2012

Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year

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Google Bombarded by Gov’t Requests on User Data

The US government is on a data-gathering spree at Google, new data from the search giant reveals

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Millions Lose Health Insurance due to Obamacare

Health insurance companies have already notified at least 3.5 million Americans that their plans are being cancelled as a result of Obamacare

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Americans Defy Pointless Government Barriers

Many Americans crossed the barriers that were set this weekend by President Barack Obama’s deputies to block public access to the Potomac River from Virginia’s George Washington Memorial Parkway

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Americans Don’t Trust Their Government

Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe the federal government has too much power, one percentage point above the previous high recorded in September 2010

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Government Agencies Sell Personal Info to Marketing Companies

Roughly 60 percent of the mail we get can be classified as junk mail, but sometimes that flood of mail seems nonstop, and the pitches are often unsettlingly specific

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Are Millennials Washington’s Only Hope?

For a least a decade, experts have struggled to understand why civic-minded Millennials are rejecting public service and politics

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Government Requests for Info From Twitter on the Rise

The company’s latest transparency report, now a biannual affair, shows a steady increase in information requests from governments around the world, including those for user account information, which Twitter said typically are made in connection with criminal investigations or cases

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U.S. Quietly Legalizes Government-Run News Propaganda

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January

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Student Loans Just Doubled…

The subsidized interest rate on Stafford student loans doubled Monday, following top Senate Democrats’ rejection of a bipartisan compromise supported by the president

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