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Anna-Louise Jackson

The internet at risk: Experts warn of ‘scary’ threats to digital freedom—and what you can do to fight back

Speaking with Fast Company at SXSW, leaders from the ACLU, Cloudflare, and the Wikimedia Foundation outlined some of the biggest risks to digital freedom currently.

In an era where nearly everything we do carries a digital footprint, experts warn that our freedoms are increasingly under attack. But the average internet user can take steps to fight back against threats that range from mass surveillance to the decline of net neutrality to changes to the very architecture of the internet. 

Fast Company

Anna-Louise Jackson

The internet at risk: Experts warn of ‘scary’ threats to digital freedom—and what you can do to fight back

Speaking with Fast Company at SXSW, leaders from the ACLU, Cloudflare, and the Wikimedia Foundation outlined some of the biggest risks to digital freedom currently.

In an era where nearly everything we do carries a digital footprint, experts warn that our freedoms are increasingly under attack. But the average internet user can take steps to fight back against threats that range from mass surveillance to the decline of net neutrality to changes to the very architecture of the internet. 

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Jon Pareles

How Alison Krauss Found the Song That Rekindled Her Distinctive Band

After 14 years between albums, the singer and fiddler has regrouped Union Station to sing about darkness and light. The group is carrying on without a key member.

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Yan Zhuang

NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore do not get overtime for their unexpectedly long stay on the International Space Station, according to NASA rules. But they do get $5 a day for “incidentals.”

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Santul Nerkar

Mexico Sent Cartel Bosses to U.S. Knowing They Could Face Execution

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death penalty because they were expelled from Mexico rather than extradited.

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Carl Hulse

Democrats Call Chuck Schumer’s Senate Leadership Into Question

Leaders in the upper chamber of Congress occasionally have to take a political beating to protect their members in tough spots, like the showdown over government funding.

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Andrew Higgins

Viktor Orban Is a Conservative Lodestar. Now He Wants to Fix the Price of Eggs.

The Hungarian prime minister, who pioneered themes dear to U.S. conservatives, is seeking to tame inflation with methods that remind his critics of communist-era central planning.

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Trish Bendix

Late Night Tackles the Attacks on Tesla

Jordan Klepper said no one should be blowing up Elon Musk’s cars, “especially because if you just wait a few minutes, they’ll probably do it by themselves.”

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Stephen I. Vladeck

Trump Is Breaking Things. They Can’t All Be Fixed by the Courts.

Trump’s goal isn’t necessarily to win. It’s to break it all.

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Patrick Healy, Thomas L. Friedman and Vishakha Darbha

Tom Friedman: Trump Is a ‘Small Man in a Big Time’

Nearly 60 days in, the president is failing to engage in long-term thinking.

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Shannon Sims

The Houston Rodeo Is the Super Bowl of Country Culture

Spending a few days eating turkey legs, watching piglet races and ‘mutton bustin’ at the world’s largest rodeo and livestock show.

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Meaghan Tobin

Canada Condemns China’s Execution of 4 Canadians on Drug Convictions

Canada’s foreign minister said the government would continue to ask for leniency from China for other Canadians in similar situations.

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Winnie Hu and Stefanos Chen

Trump Officials Ordered NYC Congestion Pricing to End by March 21. What Happens Now?

As the March 21 deadline looms, the M.T.A. has refused to stop the tolls and sued the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, and federal officials in federal court in Manhattan.

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Sarah Maslin Nir

In Rush to Release Kennedy Files, Personal Information Went Public, Too

Social Security numbers and other personal details were included in the 64,000 pages of documents that the Trump administration declassified this week.

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Talya Minsberg, Adam Nagourney, Jennifer Schuessler and Sarah Maslin Nir

Takeaways From the Kennedy Files

The big reveal from almost 64,000 documents was that there wasn’t much of a reveal at all.

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Sui-Lee Wee and Camille Elemia

How the High-Stakes Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte Unfolded

The man who ordered the Philippines’ bloody war on drugs is now in a cell at The Hague. Getting him there was far from a sure thing.

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Amelia Nierenberg

How George Lewis Made Comedy Gold Imagining Two Toddlers Chatting

George Lewis’s riffs on the absurdities of millennial parenting — and the inner lives of 2-year-olds — have won him legions of fans online and galvanized his once middling stand-up career.

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Ephrat Livni

Trump Says Houthis in Yemen Will Be ‘Annihilated,’ as U.S. Keeps Up Strikes

The president warned Iran to stop arming the militant group, which has been attacking ships in the Red Sea.

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Raja Abdulrahim

In Syria, Being Wanted Went From Something to Fear to a Badge of Honor

The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a name” on any of those lists and are sharing the news proudly.

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Vjosa Isai

Doug Ford Defends Canada as He Steps Up to Take On Trump

Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, is reinventing himself as one of Canada’s staunchest defenders against President Trump’s economic and sovereignty threats.

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