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FBI Deploys Drones in U.S. Surveillance

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Washington — The FBI uses drones in domestic surveillance operations in a “very, very minimal way,” Director Robert Mueller said. Mueller, in Senate testimony yesterday, acknowledged for the first time that the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses “very few” drones in a limited capacity for surveillance. “It’s very seldom used and generally used in a particular incident when you need the capability,” Mueller said when asked about the bureau’s use …

Firefox Web Browser to Offer Users a ‘Do Not Track’ Option

Thursday, June 20, 2013

The maker of the popular Firefox browser is moving ahead with plans to block the most common forms of Internet tracking, allowing hundreds of millions of users to limit who watches their movements across the Web, company officials said yesterday. The decision comes despite intense resistance from advertising groups, which have argued that tracking is essential to delivering well-targeted, lucrative ads that pay …

Respected Vt. Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Car Crash

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Los Angeles — Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his employers. He was 33. The coroner and other …