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Court Rules UK Snooper’s Charter Illegal
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 Act – nicknamed the Snooper’s Charter – was brought by Conservative MP David Davis – now the Government’s Brexit Secretary – and…
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Websites Could Boycott UK Over Surveillance Law
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 country – making it the most invasive mass surveillance program in Western civilisation – is asking websites to “block or restrict” UK…
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UK Admits to Illegal Data Surveillance – Will Continue Doing it
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 whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has ruled that UK surveillance agency GCHQ was in breach of Article 8…
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Snoopers Charter Could Have Harmful Effect on Smaller Businesses
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 companies, with groups like Facebook and Microsoft coming out with some observations over just how bad an impact the charter might have on companies working in…
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Ex-NSA Director Warns UK Snooper’s Charter Will Kill People
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 the deaths of innocent people. Bill Binney says that the sheer quantity of information that GCHQ analysts will be forced…
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Congressman on One-Man Mission to Repeal CISA
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 signed off by President Obama a fortnight ago after being forcibly bundled with a vital Federal funding bill – together known as the “Omnibus”…
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NSA and GCHQ Worked Together to Hack Juniper Firewalls
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 documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. GCHQ, wanting to crack Juniper’s encryption, specifically sought help from the NSA for that task, Russia Today reports.…
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HTTP/2 Opens New Connections With the Word ‘PRISM’
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 NSA’s PRISM program collected the internet communications of its citizens via nine major internet companies, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo. Now, John Graham-Cumming,…
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Paris Attackers Allegedly Used PS4s and PSN to Communicate
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 communicate and coordinate their attack. This comes after authorities have taken away the PS4s from the attackers homes and Belgian home…
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Edward Snowden Explains Why he Supports Ad-Blockers
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower-turned-press freedom advocate exiled in Russia after leaking NSA documents that demonstrated the terrifying scope of its mass surveillance program, has publicly endorsed ad-blocking software and has encouraged every internet user to employ it. Speaking to The Intercept’s Micah Lee, Snowden, responding to the question “Do you…
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Researcher Makes Live Browser History Public to Show Impact of UK’s Surveillance Bill
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 to, amongst other things, access and monitor the internet browser history of any UK citizen – there has been growing concern over the right…
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We Have Edward Snowden to Thank for The X-Files Revival
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 paranormal and government conspiracies, but it seems we might have a real-world scandal to thank for inspiring the show’s return. The X-Files creator…
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Edward Snowden Twitter Notifications Resulted in 47GB of E-mails
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 – and within three days he has already accrued a whopping 1.26 million followers, and a very warm welcome from…
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GCHQ’s Karma Police Has Been Watching Everyone Online
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 browsing habits of “every visible user on the internet”. Through its program, dubbed Karma Police, the UK government’s intelligence and security organisation GCHQ…
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Whistleblower Who Posted Sensitive Materials to 4Chan Not Taken Seriously
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 4chan, where no one took him seriously (and called him “newf*g”, presumably). 21-year-old Michael Scerba uploaded documents related to the Five Eyes spying…
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