White House reveals ‘weak’ NSA reform nearly 2 years after Snowden scoops
The Obama administration has announced changes to the surveillance operations conducted by the United States…
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DEA admits to collecting phone records of Americans
Yet another federal agency of the United States government maintained a database of phone records…
California cops sign contract to begin using massive biometric database
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – the fourth largest local policing agency in the…
New documents reveal which encryption tools the NSA couldn’t crack
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we’re getting a new look at which programs can successfully keep…
New NSA reports show spy agency routinely collected intel on Americans
Hundreds of pages of reports previously classified top-secret were released by the National Security Agency…
NSA and EFF to square off in court over internet surveillance
A digital rights group in the United States plans to argue in federal court this…
Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat rating’
A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system.…
Navy’s 100lb robotic ‘spy fish’ could take to sea next year
The Navy has been testing a robotic spy fish designed to resemble a five-foot, 100lb…
Voiceprint harvesting – the next frontier in data privacy war
Corporations and governments alike are hungry for data on people. In addition to internet behavior…
Germany tapped John Kerry’s phone, spied on Turkey for years
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency eavesdropped at least one telephone conversation of US Secretary of State…
LED Lights In Airports Can Record Video & Sound?
Here is a relevant article I found about Newark airport: There are new LED lights…
Secret programs to stay secret: Court sides with NSA in surveillance lawsuit
A federal judge in California sided mostly with the United States government this week in…
MIT scientists eavesdrop using a bag of chips, plant leaves
James Bond used an electric razor as an eavesdropping device. Lucy Ricardo (and many others)…
Whistleblower: NSA stores 80% of all phone calls, not just metadata – full audio
At least 80 percent of all audio calls are gathered and stored by the NSA,…
Obama adm refuses to pursue criminal investigation of CIA spying on Senate staffers
The Department of Justice has officially ended its criminal probe concerning allegations of spying and…
FBI, NSA targets Muslim-American lawyers, rights activists
The National Security Agency has been tracing the email communications of prominent Muslim-Americans, including civil…
US spy agency trying to develop computers that think like humans
A little-known US intelligence research agency hopes to revolutionize the machine mind by finding firms…
Merkel reportedly gets NSA-proof phone with chip costing 2.5k euros
o fear of being tapped by foreign agents, as she now has a secure, German-upgraded…
DHS biometric program gets $250 million from Senate
A Senate subcommittee this week approved a request from the United States Department of Homeland…
House unexpectedly votes to stop warrantless NSA searches
In what’s being billed as a momentum boost for anti-surveillance advocates, the US House of…
Snowden gets German Fritz Bauer award for exposing US intelligence
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize of the…
NSA argues its system is ‘too complex’ to stop destroying evidence
Making any adjustments to the way the National Security Agency collects intelligence —even court orders…
Scientists using nature to design the next generation of drones
The next generation of flying robotic drones may resemble some of nature’s most familiar airborne…
WikiLeaks threatens to name NSA-targeted country despite warnings it may lead to deaths
Despite warnings that doing so “could lead to increased violence” and potentially deaths, anti-secrecy group…