Facebook Ends “Free” Onavo VPN Service Over Data Harvesting Allegations
When Facebook first announced its VPN service, a lot of people scrutinized it. It later turned out that was for a good reason, as the...
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US military seeks contractor to turn 2 tons of top secret data ‘to ash’
A US Navy warfare center is looking to hire a security-obsessed firm to burn two tons of hardware...
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....
Homeland Security contractor hacked, govt employee data likely stolen
One of the Department of Homeland Security’s key contractors says a “state-sponsored” cyber attack is responsible for stealing the personal information of numerous government employees....
Government data: US in decade-long cooling period
New government data suggests that the average temperature in the United States has cooled by approximately 0.7 degrees...
The scandal of fiddled global warming data
When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th...
Verizon to monitor wireless devices, computers and share data with advertisers
Verizon Wireless will monitor customers’ activities on wireless devices as well as wired or Wi-Fi-connected desktop computers and laptops. Collected data on users' online activity...
NSA, GCHQ use phone apps to scoop user data
The US National Security Agency and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, have the ability to harvest sensitive personal data...
Hackers Steal Card Data from Neiman Marcus
Responding to inquiries about a possible data breach involving customer credit and debit card information, upscale retailer Neiman...
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 use, and a...
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 their whereabouts and the duration they stay in one place,...
Pentagon unable to provide records on drone crashes
Reporters seeking information on US drone safety and crash data were told by Defense Department officials that multiple...
NSA review group member wants to expand data collection program
A review group hand-picked by United States President Barack Obama said last week that the National Security Agency...
Adobe hacked, millions of customers’ data compromised
A security breach targeting the source code used by software giant Adobe has compromised the information of nearly three million customers, the company confirmed this...
California ‘eraser law’ forces web companies to scrub data posted by minors
California law will require web companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google to scrub the online activity of users...
NSA gets data from Germany’s domestic security agency – reports
Germany’ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution regularly hands over classified data to the NSA, media...
Two million Vodafone customers hacked in Germany
A hacker stole private data from two million customers of Vodafone Germany, the mobile phone operator said Thursday. The information compromised by the attacker included...
NSA routinely shares Americans data with Israel – Snowden leak
The NSA regularly shares raw US intelligence data with Israel without even removing information about American citizens, according...
The NSA will be getting thousands of free fingerprints with user IDs very soon
The iPhone 5s’s new Touch ID sensor, embedded in the home button, will allow for faster and more...
UK internet providers to collect data on illegal downloaders
Media companies have asked UK broadband providers to collate info on illegal downloaders, which could violate data protection...
Lavabit owner eyes legal precedent to rid cloud-data companies of govt surveillance
The owner of the now-shuttered encrypted email service used by Edward Snowden told RT that he plans to fight for a strong precedent via the...
Moscow Subway To Use Devices To Read Data On Phones
Radio Free Europe The head of police for Moscow’s subway system has said stations will soon be equipped...
NSA Taps Directly Into Undersea Fiber-optic Data Cables
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. Despite promises from a few federal lawmakers to hold the Obama administration and...
NSA locates cell phones even when they are turned off
Never mind the non-stop collection of metadata and other sneaky surveillance tools being implemented by the NSA: a new report has revealed that the National...