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British GCHQ spied on G20 delegates to gain advantage in talks

The British GCHQ has monitored computers and intercepted phone calls made by the foreign participants of two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 and provided crucial …

Americans were anxious about privacy even before NSA spying scandal

Big Brother is watching and Americans know it. New figures from the quarterly Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll show that most Americans exhibit a healthy …

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 …

How orgs should handle personal data on IT systems that they don’t control

Organizations should create a privacy program that keeps personal data at arm’s length, but under control, according to Gartner, which predicts that by 2019, 90 percent …

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 …

Tapproof security for Dropbox

SafeMonk today announced the public beta of its tapproof encryption solution designed specifically for users of the file-sharing service Dropbox. More than 100 million people, …

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 …

ACLU asks spy court to release records on Patriot Act surveillance powers

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Clinic filed a motion on Monday with the secret court that …

NSA whistleblower reveals himself, world reacts

This last week has been the most eventful one in infosec history since I can remember. An (at the time unnamed) whistleblower has rocked the world by disclosing documents that …

Potential privacy problems for companies accepting Bitcoins

Businesses accepting Bitcoin payments might want to consider the privacy implications that such an option creates for its customers and for themselves. As you may or may not …

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.

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