Inquiring lawmakers’ minds want to know, for one thing, whether our mobile phones are actually listening to our conversations.
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Facebook shines a little light on ‘shadow profiles’
Shadow… what now?
Congress chews up Zuckerberg, day two: A far more thorough mastication
“What’s the difference between Facebook and J. Edgar Hoover?”
Congress grills Zuckerberg, day one: How does this online stuff work?
On Tuesday, senators began their questioning of the virgin-to-Congressional-grilling, Mark Zuckerberg.
Obama signs USA Freedom Act into law, clipping NSA’s powers
Patriot Act provisions snap back to life, but spying will be a tad more inconvenient for the NSA, and there’ll be a bit more transparency.
Thousands of sites block and redirect Congress to Patriot Act protest page
#ifeelnaked, the protest page says, showing nude photos in protest of surveillance that feels like online strip search. The Senate on Sunday let three Patriot Act provisions expire. 
‘Aaron’s Law’ back in Congress to bring “long overdue” fix of US hacking law
The proposed overhaul of the infamous Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would focus penalties on malicious computer crime.
US Congress OKs ‘unprecedented’ codification of warrantless surveillance
The US Congress has quietly passed a bill that includes warrantless forfeiture of private communications to local law enforcement and allows for indefinite retention of any encrypted content. 
Senate kills bill that would have reined in NSA and rampant surveillance
Yesterday the Senate axed The USA Freedom Act, which missed the chance to be debated by just two “yes” votes. With it goes what privacy advocates had called the best opportunity yet to curb the country’s run-amok surveillance.