federalgovernmentoftheunitedstates
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Hacker Reportedly Gets Hands on Massive No-Fly List of Alleged Terrorist Suspects
It’s been a rough few weeks for the U.S. air industry and tech. First, Southwest Airlines was forced to cancel an astounding 16,700 holiday flights due, in part, to outdated scheduling software. Just weeks later the Federal Aviation Administration drastically had to ground all domestic flights because of a corrupted database file in a crucial…
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Gifts for the Spaceflight Enthusiast in Your Life
The new space race has everyone excited for more powerful rockets, treks to Mars, and everything in between. For your friends and family caught up in all this excitement, we have these excellent gift recommendations to share.
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Rights Groups Say Pentagon Buys Way Around Fourth Amendment
Twenty-two civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Demand Progress, and Electronic Frontier Foundation have signed a letter accusing the Pentagon and the executive branch at large of exploiting a legal loophole to surveil Americans absent congressional oversight or approval from the courts.
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Border Agents Are Grabbing Data From Americans’ Phones Without Warrants and Storing It for 15 Years
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden says his office was informed this summer that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is building a massive database with content seized from Americans’ mobile phones at the border. Without warrants, the agency permits thousands of employees to search the database “for any reason,” the Oregon senator said.