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Apple releases cleverly framed report on government data requests

Apple has released what will be the first of many biannual reports on government information requests it receives, and has included a statement saying that “Apple has …

The dangers of weakening cybersecurity to facilitate surveillance

In response to the controversy over the alleged surveillance practices of the NSA, the White House established the Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technologies, …

US Senate committee backs law to continue phone-record collection

A few days after a bill seeking to end the government’s dragnet collection of phone records has been introduced by US Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman Jim …

NSA taps cables connecting Google and Yahoo data centers

The US NSA and its UK counterpart GCHQ have collaborated in tapping the overseas fiber-optic cables used by Google and Yahoo to exchange data stored in their many data centers …

Obama orders NSA to stop spying on UN diplomats

There is nothing wrong with spying on foreign national leaders, even when they are allies, said NSA head General Keith Alexander and NI director James Clapper at a hearing …

US legislators introduce bill to end dragnet phone data collection

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, chairman of the Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee in the House, introduced on Tuesday a …

Mozilla releases add-on to reveal online data tracking

With a new version (1.0.2) released on Wednesday, Mozilla has once again put the spotlight on its Collusion add-on that aims to show users which first and third parties are …

US allies demand explanations about NSA surveillance

Following Le Monde’s Monday report on NSA’s systematic gathering of phone call data of French citizens and the recording of certain calls and text messages has …

Lavabit users allowed to access accounts and retrieve data

Lavabit’s Ladar Levison has announced that the users of his recently closed down email service will be able to briefly access their accounts so that they can retrieve …

Brazil determined to stop NSA spying

Perhaps no country in the world has been as vocal about doing something about NSA’s global Internet surveillance reach as Brazil. As one of the fastest-growing major …

MEPs hear US privacy experts, whistleblowers and Snowden statement

The possibility of suspending EU-US trade talks, the idea of creating international standards of privacy protection and the need for genuine parliamentary oversight of …

NSA creates US citizens’ profiles by collecting metadata, public and commercial data

In 2010, NSA analysts were instructed to disregard previous restrictions when it came to analyzing phone call and email logs belonging to Americans that had connections to …

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