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US tech firms knew about and assisted with PRISM data collection
In a testimony before the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the NSA general council Rajesh De and his colleague stated on Wednesday that the tech companies that …
NSA records a country’s phone calls, keeps the records for a month
By leveraging a surveillance system dubbed MYSTIC, the US National Security Agency has been recording all phone calls made in a foreign country for a period of 30 days, newly …
Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet
Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but …
IBM: We never shared client data with NSA
IBM is the latest tech giant to deny any involvement in NSA’s PRISM data collection program and to claim that they have not set up backdoors in their products. “In …
Stop mass surveillance now or face consequences, MEPs say to US
Parliament’s consent to the EU-US trade deal “could be endangered” if blanket mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency does not stop, members of …
Head of Senate Intelligence Committee accuses CIA of spying on Senate
The long awaited reprimand of the US intelligence community by Senator Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, happened yesterday, but not for the …
Video: Edward Snowden on privacy and technology
Edward Snowden speaks about privacy and technology with the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian at SXSW Interactive.
TrustyCon talks made available on video
As announced, the TrustyCon infosec conference, established by security consulting firm iSEC Partners, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and DEF CON and held …
RSA Conference attendees ambivalent about NSA tactics
Thycotic Software announced the results of a survey of 341 RSA Conference USA 2014 attendees, which found that fewer than half (48%) of pollees feel the NSA overstepped its …
What people think about passwords, email snooping and personal data
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Fortinet published new research that shows where Millennials and Gen-Xers stand in regards to passwords, online marketing practices, …
NSA and GCHQ targeted WikiLeaks and supporters
Newly analyzed documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s trove point to the US NSA and the UK GCHQ targeting WikiLeaks, its supporters and other activists, and …
NSA snooping: MEPs table proposals to protect EU citizens’ privacy
The European Parliament should withhold its consent to an EU-US trade deal unless it fully respects EU citizens’ data privacy, says an inquiry report on NSA and EU …
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