Rather than sift through the large pile of records, the agency is opting to simply delete them.
Some experts believe the Shadow Brokers is a cover name for the Russian government but no proof of that is out just yet.
There’s no doubt that the saga of Edward Snowden and his leak of confidential NSA documents which unveiled details of global surveillance operations run by the … Read more…
Wait, what? I know, you may be rubbing your eyes and thinking that you’ve perhaps entered Crazytown, but here we are. In response to the … Read more…
President Obama’s administration has announced that the NSA phone surveillance program will be shut down today and will be replaced with a more granular program. … Read more…
The NSA (National Security Agency) is now on record stating that the organization informs companies (they’re spying on) of their security flaws when they find … Read more…
Senators Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy are investigating why the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is using a cellphone tracking system in its investigations. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has … Read more…
When Edward Snowden dropped the NSA/government surveillance bomb on the world, many Americans, as well as countries around the world, started taking privacy a lot … Read more…
A shocking (or perhaps not so shocking) report has emerged from the New York Times revealing that AT&T has been sending users data to the … Read more…
A new top-secret document obtained from Edward Snowden shows that intelligence agencies from the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia (the “Five Eyes” alliance) … Read more…
According to documents released by Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, the intelligence organization uses a program they call SKYNET to analyze location and communication records … Read more…
Just days after vowing to outlaw encrypted communication if he is re-elected, David Cameron had a quick stopover in the US last night to talk about a … Read more…
Julian Assange started off as a programmer and hacker before becoming the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks which publishes many secret documents and other potentially incriminating information. … Read more…
CNNMoney has a short interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt where he answers some questions about some of Tim Cook’s comments concerning Google, privacy and online security.
Apparently FBI Director James Comey is less than happy with both Google and Apple for recently making their mobile operating systems less hackable by the … Read more…
Classified documents published by The Intercept seem to point to the NSA creating their own search engine in which they shared 850 billion records with other … Read more…
Wired is reporting that the United States House of Representatives voted late Thursday night to cut the NSA’s surveillance funding. This could be a huge blow to the agency’s continued controversial spying efforts and a very welcome one to many Americans and foreigners alike.
We suspected it for a long time and Snowden blew the lid off last year. The United States government loves data on as many people as it can obtain, and there is no digital place safe from their prying eyes. This should not be a surprise but the data they are looking for goes beyond just your email, social media, and cell phone usage. Law enforcement agencies are also looking for avenues into your home.
As I write this have finished reading a write up at The Guardian by Ladar Levison the founder of Lavabit, an email service that gained notoriety for its use by Edward Snowden in the wake of Snowden’s NSA leaks. Lavabit’s mission was simple. Provide a source for email that was secure and encrypted. That is to say, the email service’s main goal was to keep those emails private. In this write up (which I implore you to read) Ladar talks about some of the details of his legal case that eventually lead to the closing of his business/service.
The Huffington Post is reporting that Aljazeera America has obtained emails that show some Silicon Valley Executives had a much cozier relationship with the NSA than they led us to believe. The Aljazeera report focuses on Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page in emails they obtained through the “Freedom of Information” Act.
Twenty five years ago today, while working as an independent contractor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal … Read more…
When Facebook acquired popular messaging platform WhatsApp on February 19, 2014, for US$19 billion in shares, stock, and cash, two things happened: The Internet went crazy trying to figure out Facebook’s angle on the purchase, and millions of users began flocking to Telegram.
Founded in 2013 by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, Telegram is a free, open source messaging app that focuses on maintaining maximum security for its users. It is available on both Android and iOS officially and Windows Phone, Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX unofficially for free; indeed, the company makes it plain on their website that “Telegram is free forever.
Looks like Google is turning the other cheek on the Microsoft Scroogled campaign to work with them on government surveillance matters. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, … Read more…
Apple has released a report concerning Government information requests. In the report Apple makes known its disapproval of the way the Government collects and requests … Read more…
