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Your Call: What’s the latest in the ongoing battle to protect personal privacy online?

  

On today's Your Call we’ll speak with Julia Angwin, award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization, ProPublica, and author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Companies like Google and Yahoo are now refusing to comply with NSA surveillance requests without notifying the user directly. So are we seeing the paradigm shift when it comes to consumer protection online?  Join the conversation on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and You.

Guest:

Julia Angwin, award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization, ProPublica, and author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

Resources:

Pacific Standard: Privacy Tools: A Quick Guide to Encrypting the Data You Store and Transmit

Wired: It’s Crazy What Can Be Hacked Thanks to Heartbleed

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Government: Paying to Undermine Internet Security, Not to Fix It

ReadWrite: 7 Heartbleed Myths Debunked

RT: Defiant Apple, Facebook, other firms to inform public of govt surveillance requests