www.icij.org Readers can search information about the ownership of more than 100,000 offshore entities in tax havens and discover the networks around them.

news.cnet.com National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too. Read this article by Declan McCullagh...

ow.ly The government has been passing around some "talking points" to politicians and the press trying to spin the NSA surveillance story. We've got the...

"No one has given them permission to do this, nor have they consulted the larger community." Let's be plain, this is not science and these are not scientists. They are pulling a stunt. They are willing to fundamentally alter one of our planet's observable...

"In Sarajevo, the people have been occupying the square in front of parliament ever since June 5th, with a simple message to their politicians: “you are all disgusting, no matter what ethnicity you belong to.” roarmag.org A protest against administrative...

Researchers have found that elephants have hundreds of distinct signals and gestures. Elephant biologist and conservationist Joyce Poole and her husband, Petter Granli, founders of ElephantVoices, developed an online database of those signals, as described...

www.nytimes.com In 2008, a ruling by the FISA court — said to be against Yahoo — discouraged technology firms in fighting data requests from the government.

"One of the oldest is PGP, e-mail encryption software released in 1991. Others include OTR (for “off the record”), which enables secure instant messaging, and the Internet telephony apps Silent Circle and Redphone." www.washingtonpost.com NSA-proof encryption...

www.democracynow.org In financial news, Bloomberg News is reporting traders at some of the world’s biggest banks have manipulated key foreign exchange rates used to set the value of investments worth trillions of dollars. Traders said the rigging is accomplished...