When the government comes for your data, tech companies can’t always tell you. But thanks to a legal loophole, companies can say if they haven’t had a visit yet. That’s opened up an
Ladar Levison’s three-year fight for freedom to speak about the government order that shuttered Lavabit, his secure email service, is finally over. Levison was finally able to confirm today th
Lavabit, the former encrypted email provider that shut down its service in 2013 after the FBI demanded its encryption keys, has filed an amicus brief in support of Apple in its legal battle with the a
If there were any thematic backdrops present at SXSW 2014, certainly privacy was one of them. To be sure, the Edward Snowden and Julian Assange keynotes were packed but there was also a more subtle co
Ladar Levison, founder of the now shuttered secure email provider Lavabit, has taken to Kickstarter to resurrect the concept of secure email in a new, open source form, called the project Dark Mail in
Ladar Levison, founder of secure email provider <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Lavabit">Lavabit</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/KingLadar/posts/10153341982280038">has poste
Groklaw, a decade-old law blog run by Pamela Jones, has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175">shut down citing</a> the danger of increased email scrutiny
Today Ladar Levison, owner of the now-shuttered Lavabit email service, spoke to Democracy Now about his decision to close his company. In the interview, he expressed support of leaker Edward Snowden,