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EU citizens’ data must be protected against US surveillance

The US PRISM internet surveillance case highlights the urgent need to pass legislation to protect EU citizens’ personal data, most MEPs agreed in Wednesday’s Civil …

Global repercussions of PRISM scandal

The revelation of the existence of the PRISM program, which allows U.S. government agencies to either directly or indirectly have access to email and chat content, videos, …

Collected data helped foil 50 terrorist plots, says NSA chief

A number of top government officials have been called to testify at a congressional hearing before U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the topic of NSA …

Facebook, Microsoft and Apple disclose little on U.S. government data requests

The disclosure of details about the controversial PRISM program set up by the NSA has indubitably damaged the reputation of the companies involved in it, and some of them are …

Oppose PRISM-like programs today or lose you privacy tomorrow

I used to work for a telecommunication company. The government had access to call records, although the process for obtaining any information required manual requests and …

80+ orgs ask U.S. Congress to halt government surveillance

Over 80 organizations, civil liberty groups, Internet companies, public figures and private individuals have launched the StopWatching.Us initiative and have signed an open …

Obama, Verizon, NSA sued for collecting U.S. citizens’ phone call data

Three individuals have filed the first lawsuit aimed at disputing the constitutionality of NSA’s collection of metadata on phone calls made by or to U.S. citizens. Larry …

Reactions from the security community to the NSA spying scandal

Last week a whistleblower created quite the stir when he leaked documents about PRISM, a surveiilance program by the NSA. Below are comments on this scandal that Help Net …

Video with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

This video features an interview with Edward Snowden, the man behind the most significant intelligence leak in U.S. history. Copyright © 2013 Praxis Films / Laura Poitras.

NSA has direct access to Google, Facebook, Apple servers

After yesterday’s news that Verizon is compelled to share all phone call metadata with the NSA on a daily basis comes the incendiary revelation that the spy agency has …

NSA legally forces Verizon to hand over all phone records on a daily basis

An order issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that compels Verizon to share metadata on all the phone calls its users make with the NSA has been …

NSA launches cyber security program for college students

The US National Security Agency has launched a National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program to ultimately yield a larger pool of professionals with …

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