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California Enacts Bill to Protect Female Farmworkers From Sex Abuse
The new law requires sexual harassment training for labor contractors, supervisors and all farm employees.
September 30, 2014
Where is Voter Discrimination the Worst?
Voting discrimination persists nationwide, but the worst offenders today are still southern states with a history of blocking minorities' access to the ballot, according to a new study by the National Commission on Voting Rights.
August 6, 2014
Three Plans to Stop Rape in the Fields
Legislators, community organizations, academic institutions and growers have jump-started new projects to tackle sexual harassment and abuse in the agricultural industry.
June 5, 2014
How the NSA's Secret Elite Hacking Unit Works
The NSA is thought to deploy the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit for specific hard-to-get targets.
May 29, 2014
How the NSA Can Get Onto Your Computer
Security expert Ashkan Soltani explains how the NSA can get onto a user's computer via the web browser.
May 23, 2014
Live Chat: Silicon Valley, the NSA, and You
FRONTLINE’s Martin Smith, cybersecurity analyst Ashkan Soltani and Mashable's Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai take your questions on Wed. 5/21 at 2 pm ET.
May 20, 2014
The FRONTLINE Interview: Porter Goss
A former director of the CIA, Porter Goss served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from 1997 to 2004. As chair of the committee, he was among the first members of Congress to be briefed on the Bush administration's domestic surveillance programs.
May 20, 2014
Podcast: How to Protect Yourself (and Your Data) Online
In the latest FRONTLINE roundtable, privacy experts Julia Angwin and Hanni Fakhoury talk privacy and surveillance in today's data-saturated world.
May 20, 2014
The Robot Defense: How Google Saw Privacy Before Snowden
In 2004, Google's co-founder offered a unique defense of the web giant's privacy policies.
May 20, 2014
How the U.S. Gov't Turned Silicon Valley Into a Surveillance Partner
Ten years later, Nick Merrill still can't discuss the details of the data request that came hand delivered to him from the FBI.
May 19, 2014
FRONTLINE Wins Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "Rape in the Fields"
The award recognizes outstanding reporting on human rights and social justice issues.
May 15, 2014