The Verdict Is In: Only Four Emotions Exist

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2014 A person can feel only sad, happy, afraid or angry, according to a recent study; a new video by Brigham Young University-Idaho warns about the "grave peril" that masturbation poses; meanwhile, Google is "setting itself up to own the 21st century." These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NSA Harvests Millions of Personal Online Contact Lists

BLANK Oct 15, 2013 In an astoundingly broad sweep, the National Security Agency has been collecting personal online contact lists from tens of millions of Americans through instant message log-in systems, such as Facebook. And it has evaded legal proscriptions on domestic spying by collecting the data from offshore collection points, The Washington Post reports. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Greenwald Blows Lid Off Massive NSA Web Surveillance Operation ‘XKeyscore’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 31, 2013 The Guardian columnist broke another major story about the NSA on Wednesday, this one detailing an Internet surveillance program that allows the powerful agency to spy on the emails, Web chats and search histories of millions of Americans without prior authorization. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails

By Justin Elliott, ProPublica Jul 24, 2013 The National Security Agency is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency uses those machines to sift through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture. But ask the NSA, as part of a FOIA request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesn’t have the technology. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

By Justin Elliott, ProPublica Jul 23, 2013 Among the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and Internet data.But like other aspects of NSA surveillance, virtually everything about this kind of NSA surveillance is highly secret and we’re left with far from a full picture. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

China Looking Over My Shoulder

Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com Feb 25, 2013 Dig deeper

China Hacks America

Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City Feb 25, 2013 Dig deeper

China Army Hackers

Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune Feb 22, 2013 Dig deeper

Don’t Hack Up a Hairball

Nick Anderson / Truthdig Feb 21, 2013 Dig deeper

Chinese Hackers

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Feb 20, 2013 Dig deeper

Inside a Foxconn Factory

Staff / Truthdig Feb 24, 2012 A look inside Foxconn gives us a new perspective on workers' conditions; one solution to the "right to be forgotten" dilemma may be to implement mandatory online insurance; meanwhile, a Columbia grad in New York has been converting pay phone booths into libraries. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )