The highest court in Europe has ruled that the UK’s draconian new mass surveillance bill, passed into law last month, is illegal. The case against the Investigatory Powers ...
December 21, 2016 at 11:00 pm by Ashley Allen
A new campaign, protesting the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Act, which gives the government access to 12 months’ worth of internet browsing data for every resident of the ...
December 4, 2016 at 8:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Intelligence agencies in the UK have been found to engaging in illegal surveillance through mass data collection since 1998, as part of the same program revealed by NSA ...
October 17, 2016 at 9:38 pm by Ashley Allen
Previously we’ve reported on the Snooper Charter (the official name of which is the Investigatory Power Bill). The focus for the snooper charter has been on large ...
January 16, 2016 at 1:46 pm by Gareth Andrews
The former Technical Director of the NSA has warned that should the UK Investigatory Powers Bill – nicknamed the Snooper’s Charter – pass into law that it will result in ...
January 6, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, the controversial bill that allows intelligence agencies the power to obtain user data from companies beyond the rule of law, was ...
December 31, 2015 at 6:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Spies from the UK intelligence services worked with the US National Security Agency to hack firewalls developed by top internet security firm Juniper Networks, according to ...
December 29, 2015 at 5:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Since whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program, the word Prism has taken on a sinister meaning. The ...
December 1, 2015 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
In a development that is likely to place more pressure on the technology sector, reports are coming out that the perpetrators of the recent Paris attacks used Sony PS4s to ...
November 16, 2015 at 9:15 am by Samuel Wan
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower-turned-press freedom advocate exiled in Russia after leaking NSA documents that demonstrated the terrifying scope of its mass surveillance ...
November 15, 2015 at 7:07 pm by Ashley Allen
Since details of the UK’s proposed Investigatory Powers Bill – a law nicknamed the Snooper’s Charter and that aims to open police and intelligence services’ mandate ...
November 11, 2015 at 11:00 pm by Ashley Allen
We’re but four months away from the much-hyped The X-Files revival, which reunites David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as the iconic Mulder and Scully to investigate the ...
October 10, 2015 at 9:30 am by Ashley Allen
NSA whistleblower and US exile Edward Snowden recently joined Twitter – his first act as a new member was to establish himself as the greatest troll of the 21st Century – ...
October 2, 2015 at 4:25 pm by Ashley Allen
The British intelligence services have been engaging in a mass surveillance program, the likes of which have never before been known, which has been recording the online ...
September 25, 2015 at 4:42 pm by Ashley Allen
A former employee of Australia’s Department of Defense, who held fellow countryman Julian Assange up as an idol, posted sensitive materials he stole from the workplace to ...
August 7, 2015 at 10:00 am by Ashley Allen
