As public interest in Bitcoin rises, it can sometimes be hard to figure out exactly what local laws apply. Even in the United States, the regulatory structures around Bitcoin are still a matter of debate. But a recently launched Web site, BitLegal, makes it a little easier to navigate. The site features an interactive map that uses color sorting to categorizing the legal and regulatory situation o
An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that the National Security Agency's Australian counterpart assisted the United States in the collection of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts. The assistance was provided by NSA's counterpart in Britain, the Government Communications Headquarters. The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of cont
Since information about National Security Agency surveillance programs started trickling out via former contractor Edward Snowden earlier this summer, it's been hard to keep track of how many of these programs are out there, and where. In this map, we identify the countries have been specifically cited as targets of U.S. spying programs in news reports or leaked documents. This map includes only f
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by st
Anywhere else, it might have played out as just another low-stakes battle between policy wonks. But in Japan, a country struggling to find a brand of nationalism that it can embrace, a recent war of words between a flamboyant newspaper editorialist and an editor at a premier foreign-policy think tank was something far more alarming: the latest assault in a campaign of right-wing intimidation of pu
IT'S EASY to understand the Japanese dream of a nuclear-free future. During last year's meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, tens of millions of residents on Japan's densely populated islands feared emergency evacuation and contamination of scarce land. Yet the government's new goal to phase out nuclear power over the next few decades would have serious costs, financial and to the cl
Japan’s nuclear emergency Damage at a nuclear power plant has made leaking radiation the primary threat facing a country grappling with devastation from a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. For a narrated animation of what happened, click here. How dangerous is the radiation? The highest reported level of radiation released from the Daiichi plant was 1,000 millisieverts per hour on March 27. Th
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