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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Warrant now required for federal ‘Stingray’ surveillance use – DoJ
US Department of Justice agents now have to acquire a search warrant before utilizing a cell-site simulator, the...
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...
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 are responsible for the mass collection of...
DEA surveillance has tripled during last decade – report
Federal drug cops in the United States are conducting electronic eavesdropping three times as often as they were...
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...
FBISkySpies Information about the Secretive Aircraft flying over US cities
Below is a listing of 100 aircraft registered to shell companies that do not exist. The US Department of Justice can claim plausible deniability for...
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...
Google waited six months to tell WikiLeaks about government surveillance
Google had a federal magistrate’s approval to inform WikiLeaks employees that their emails had been the subjects of...
All but four nations are subject to NSA surveillance – new Snowden leak
Previously undisclosed files leaked to the media by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden now show that the United...
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 creatures. In a special issue of the journal Bioinspiration and...
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...
New law expands IRS surveillance on Americans overseas
A conservative American attorney who has previously taken cases to the United State Supreme Court and won says...
Anti-surveillance movement calls ‘Reset the Net’ day of action
More than 30 civil liberties groups and tech companies have formed a coalition against internet surveillance and NSA spying, with a ‘Reset the Net’ day...
North Dakota to start first US drone flights in May
Research drones will begin flying over North Dakota the week of May 5, the Federal Aviation Administration announced...
Telecoms could be forced to collect even more metadata under Obama’s NSA overhaul
An effort from the White House to revamp the rules that govern how the National Security Agency goes...
RSA offered more than one NSA-designed security tool
A team of researchers has found that the American security firm RSA implemented two different encryption tools built by the National Security Agency, both of...
From Merkel to Tymoshenko: NSA spied on 122 world leaders, Snowden docs reveal
The NSA’s data base contains information obtained during the surveillance of over a hundred world leaders, new leaks...
Pentagon’s secret X-37B plane breaks space longevity record
One of the US Air Force’s most mysterious projects – an unmanned space-faring plane – has broken its...
Report: Obama to give up NSA’s phone call sweep
The White House wants the National Security Agency to get out of the business of sweeping up and...
Toy helicopter helped change Feinstein’s mind about surveillance drones
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) now says she has some serious privacy concerns about domestic drones, but it might have been nothing more than a children’s...
IBM denies sharing client data with NSA
US technology giant IBM has fought back against speculation that the company cooperated with the National Security Agency,...
Russia has intercepted a US drone above Crimea
A United States surveillance drone has been intercepted above the Ukranian region of Crimea, a Russian state arms...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg lashes out at Obama over NSA spy program
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg shared harsh words for United States President Barack Obama on Thursday amid ongoing complaints from the tech community about the administration’s...