Tag: patriot act

Anti-surveillance scarves, signal-attenuating fabric, drone-proof architecture — has it really come to this? Apparently. The New-York-based artist Adam Harvey has designed a line of “Stealth Wear” clothing for the fashionably paranoid market. It includes a metalized anti-drone hoodie and scarf to defeat thermal imaging, and a cellphone pouch with radio-frequency shielding to defeat tracking and […]

A year ago, Microsoft’s U.K. managing director surprised many people by publicly admitting that Microsoft will hand over data stored in any of its worldwide facilities when asked to do so by the U.S. government. In fact, the cloud customers and their data subjects would not even be informed if there was a gag order […]