Samsung Smart TVs Are Listening To EVERY Word You Say!
Tech giant Samsung has warned customers against discussing personal or sensitive information in front of…
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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 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.…
Voiceprint harvesting – the next frontier in data privacy war
Corporations and governments alike are hungry for data on people. In addition to internet behavior…
DHS biometric program gets $250 million from Senate
A Senate subcommittee this week approved a request from the United States Department of Homeland…
German ‘NSA-proof’ private server raises $1mn crowdfunding in 89 minutes
Developers of secure server Protonet asked for some $136,000 on a local crowdfunding website –…
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…
NSA collecting content of all phone calls in the Bahamas, according to Snowden leak
The United States National Security Agency is reportedly collecting the contents of effectively every phone…
US to spend $317 million on British intel hub upgrade
Washington is to upgrade RAF Croughton, one of its UK bases allegedly involved in mass…
Microsoft: NSA and GCHQ are capable of monitoring ‘secure’ browsing using Tor
Microsoft has publicly warned that they do not believe the Tor browsing service, famed for…
Big data companies collect, mine and sell 75k personal details on each customer
While Americans debate how to rein in the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program, private…
Big Brother’s Facebook: UK, US intelligence ‘infiltrating’ social media
American and British intelligence hope to take advantage of social media platforms, like Twitter, YouTube…
Assange: NSA, GCHQ’s ability to surveil everyone on planet ‘almost here’
The NSA and GCHQ will soon have the ability to spy on the entire planet,…
Bush cyberczar: NSA created ‘the potential for a police state’
The former cyber advisor under President George W. Bush had some harsh words for the…
Homeland Security Cancels Plan to Track License Plates Nationwide
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has abruptly canceled a recent plan to collect data…
NSA, GCHQ use phone apps to scoop user data
The US National Security Agency and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, have the ability to harvest…
NSA collects millions of SMS messages worldwide
Hours ahead of a speech in which United States President Barack Obama will announce changes…
Ford exec apologizes for ‘We know everyone who breaks the law’ remark
Ford’s global vice president in charge of marketing and sales now says the automobile company…
Ford VP: ‘We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing’
Modern automobiles are logging tremendous amounts of information every single second they’re being put to…
Car manufacturers store driving habits, location data for unknown amount of time
US automakers are using the navigation systems installed in millions’ of drivers cars to track…
Eyes everywhere: NSA’s second tier spying partners identified
Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and several other EU countries were named among “third party partners”…