NSA director-turned-cable-news-pundit James Clapper is still insisting he wasn’t lying when he told a congressional panel the NSA wasn’t spying…
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A Huawei executive hit the US where it hurts by making fun of the NSA and bringing up whistleblower Edward…
It appears no onerealized Google’s Nest Guard home security device has a built-in microphone.In a blog post earlier this month,…
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who led the tech giant as it cozied up with US authorities to develop surveillance tools,…
The Saudi National Information Center has developed a mobile application called “Absher” (Arabic for “Enjoy”) that allows male guardians, usually…
The NHS is to use energy smart meters to monitor dementia patients in their homes. The devices will track patients’ daily routines,…
Microsoft’s chief shot down calls to stop selling facial recognition tech to governments, saying it would be “cruel” to deprive…
Facebook is spying on people in “the very same way” that the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) does, said the…
Despite the opposition of the US public and lawmakers to NSA surveillance, the courts keep handing the Obama administration the…
North Dakota police have been authorized to equip drones with Tasers, tear gas, and other non-lethal weapons after interference from…
The crime itself was ordinary: Someone smashed the back window of a parked car one evening and ran off with…
Washington spied on its key ally, Japan, and passed intelligence on to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK, WikiLeaks…
The UN Committee for Human Rights has slammed France for adopting a new surveillance law saying it grants “excessively broad…
Encryption is a threat to public safety, the FBI director argued before testifying at a Senate hearing. Crypto experts and…
Tattoos might be the next biometric frontier, with one in five Americans sporting ink these days. The FBI is partnering…
The USA Freedom Act, signed this week, has curbed the NSA’s mass surveillance powers. Now the phone companies are responsible…
The National Security Agency has said it will lock down and mothball its archive of US citizens’ phone records if…
A group of anti-NSA pranksters have planted recording devices in public places across New York, saying that they are “gathering…