Perspectives
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How Factory Farms May Be Killing Us
Tara Lohan
September 17, 2013
Antibiotics revolutionized medicine in the 1940s, saving millions of lives over the last 70 years. But during that time bacteria have evolved to become resistant to certain antibiotics. The more antibiotics we use, the quicker resistance builds up. This has deadly repercussions.
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How Big Data is Changing the World
Jane Wakefield
August 27, 2013
Back in 2010 Google chief executive Eric Schmidt noted that the amount of data collected since the dawn of humanity until 2003 was the equivalent to the volume we now produce every two days.
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N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
Nicole Perlroth, Jeff Larson and Scott Shane
September 5, 2013
The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.
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Google Says You Have No “Reasonable Expectation” of Privacy
Dominick Rushe
August 14, 2013
Gmail users have no “reasonable expectation” that their emails are confidential, Google has said in a court filing.
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‘Security Is Not an End in Itself’
Commentary by German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
June 11, 2013
How much monitoring is too much and at what point does freedom become compromised? With its Prism spy program, the US has crossed the line.
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Is the Price of ‘Security’ Worth It?
Dan Murphy
June 7, 2013
The revelations of the extent of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance on US telecommunications this week bring up a chicken and egg problem: Are Americans so safe from terrorist attacks because the surveillance program works, or are they sacrificing privacy so that the government can protect them from a statistically marginal and rare occurrence?