Facebook snoops on people just like NSA – Belgian watchdog to court
Facebook is spying on people in “the very same way” that the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) does, said the Belgian data protection watchdog at...
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Federal court rules in favor of NSA bulk snooping, White House happy
Despite the opposition of the US public and lawmakers to NSA surveillance, the courts keep handing the Obama...
North Dakota to use police drones with non-lethal weapons
North Dakota police have been authorized to equip drones with Tasers, tear gas, and other non-lethal weapons after...
Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes
The crime itself was ordinary: Someone smashed the back window of a parked car one evening and ran off with a cellphone. What was unusual...
US spied on Japanese govt, companies, passed intelligence to Australia, New Zealand
Washington spied on its key ally, Japan, and passed intelligence on to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the...
UN criticizes ‘excessive’ French spy law as it goes into effect
[caption id="attachment_67459" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Security cameras are seen on a corner across the street from France's Interior Ministry...
FBI chief pushes for encryption ‘back door’ despite tech experts’ opposition
Encryption is a threat to public safety, the FBI director argued before testifying at a Senate hearing. Crypto experts and the tech industry oppose demands...
US govt researching biometric tattoo ink recognition
Tattoos might be the next biometric frontier, with one in five Americans sporting ink these days. The FBI...
NSA surveillance reforms: Are telecom companies ready?
The USA Freedom Act, signed this week, has curbed the NSA's mass surveillance powers. Now the phone companies...
NSA says it will keep phone records even if surveillance program ends
The National Security Agency has said it will lock down and mothball its archive of US citizens’ phone...
‘We Are Always Listening’: Pranksters plant recording devices across NYC
A group of anti-NSA pranksters have planted recording devices in public places across New York, saying that they are “gathering information to help win the...
‘German intelligence dependent on NSA’ – Berlin’s spy chief
The German Intelligence Agency chief says Berlin is dependent on the NSA, not vice versa, as US presence...
Apple and Google just attended a confidential spy summit in a remote English mansion
At an 18th-century mansion in England’s countryside last week, current and former spy chiefs from seven countries faced...
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 its voice-activated televisions. The South Korean company had a rough...
DEA admits to collecting phone records of Americans
Yet another federal agency of the United States government maintained a database of phone records pertaining to Americans...
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 United States –...
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 on Christmas Eve. They reveal dozens of instances of the...
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 week that the...
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. Today’s professional police...
Voiceprint harvesting – the next frontier in data privacy war
Corporations and governments alike are hungry for data on people. In addition to internet behavior records and mobile...
DHS biometric program gets $250 million from Senate
A Senate subcommittee this week approved a request from the United States Department of Homeland Security for nearly a quarter-of-a-billion dollars to be used on...
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 – and were rewarded...
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 WikiLeaks says it...
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 call dialed or received within the Bahamas, putting the conversations...