The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | Electronic meeting technology provider Zoom is coming under harsh and much needed scrutiny regarding its privacy and security practices. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, April 6th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Digital Freedom, Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | Well, that was really something. Just minutes ago, the United States Senate adjourned for an extended Memorial Day weekend recess after having failed to pass any legislation to reform or renew expiring provisions of the (un)Patriot Act — which means that the National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation will need to start winding […] |
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| Published at: | 12:16 AM on Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | Who says there’s no such thing as privacy in the digital age? Not John Roberts’ Supreme Court, which today issued a much-needed decision ruling that American police forces must generally obtain a warrant before they can legally search the mobile phone of someone they have arrested. Roberts’ majority opinion was signed by every other justice, […] |
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| Published at: | 11:59 AM on Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Litigation, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | With each passing week, it is becoming increasingly clear that former NSA employee Edward Snowden’s document dump constitutes the largest and most important leak in the history of the United States of America. While Snowden remains in Russia, newspapers in the West continue to sift through the documents he leaked, using those as the basis […] |
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| Published at: | 2:01 PM on Thursday, September 5th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Digital Freedom, Intelligence, Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | Editor’s Note: The following is the text of a letter sent by NPI to the offices of U.S. Senators Patty Murray of Washington and Jeff Merkley of Oregon this morning. Dear Senators Murray and Merkley: On behalf of the team at the Northwest Progressive Institute, I am writing to express our strong opposition to two […] |
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| Published at: | 11:12 AM on Monday, December 5th, 2011 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Digital Freedom, Interoperability, Net Neutrality |
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| Excerpt: | Earlier this week, Google finally took the wrappings off of the Facebook clone it has been developing, sparking a prolonged media frenzy about its efforts to catch up with Twitter and Facebook in the social networking arena. By all accounts, Google+ represents the company’s most sophisticated attempt to build a social network. It is a top […] |
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| Published at: | 9:05 PM on Friday, July 1st, 2011 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | Two security researchers investigating visual uses for geolocation data revealed today that gadget giant Apple has been secretly shipping spyware inside of its mobile operating system (iOS) that constantly records its customers’ whereabouts. The discovery, which has ignited a firestorm of criticism, was first made public at O’Reilly Radar by the researchers (Alasdair Allan and […] |
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| Published at: | 8:25 PM on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Privacy |
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