In the USA we’ve seen Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter all make a big deal about the “NSA saga”. The aforementioned companies have taken the ...
October 19, 2013 at 2:58 pm by Ryan Martin
We already know the NSA collect electronic data on almost every aspect of people’s life, whether that data collection is justified or even legal is a another debate ...
October 15, 2013 at 8:34 am by Ryan Martin
At a recent summit in Uruguay, all of the major internet organisations made a pledge to free themselves of US government influence. This includes the directors of ICANN, the ...
October 12, 2013 at 7:50 pm by Peter Donnell
Benjamin Grosser, a software developer from Illinois, has developed something he has called Scaremail – a browser extension he claims will foil, or at least damage, the ...
October 11, 2013 at 8:47 am by Ryan Martin
The UK’s NSA-equivalent, the Government Communications Headquarters aka GCHQ, apparently kept the British Parliament in the dark about its spying activities. The ...
October 7, 2013 at 11:08 am by Ryan Martin
In another shaking report from German publication Der Spiegel we now have reason to believe that the American NSA actually spies on all international transactions processed by ...
September 16, 2013 at 9:40 am by Ryan Martin
According to an RT report the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has served an order on the current U.S government to move forward with the declassification of ...
September 14, 2013 at 1:12 pm by Ryan Martin
James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, believes that the American Congress could soon amend or even halt the domestic surveillance programs of the NSA according ...
September 13, 2013 at 9:56 am by Ryan Martin
Revelations that the NSA harvests the data of hundreds of millions of people, without their permission or a valid legal warrant, have sickened many. Its been around 3 to 4 ...
September 10, 2013 at 11:39 am by Ryan Martin
The New York Times reports that a Republican Senator, Rush D Holt, is trying to introduce legislation that would prevent the NSA from installing back doors into encryption. ...
September 8, 2013 at 12:26 pm by Ryan Martin
RT reports that Swedish politicians have come forward to express concerns over public allegations that the Swedish government has been cooperating extensively with the NSA and ...
September 8, 2013 at 11:55 am by Ryan Martin
Yahoo has finally been allowed to publish its first Transparency Report after taking the U.S government to court to be allowed to release such data into the public domain. The ...
September 8, 2013 at 11:27 am by Ryan Martin
If you live in the USA and are worried about your online privacy and data protection rights then chances are that you’ve already heard of the civil activist movement ...
September 8, 2013 at 11:20 am by Ryan Martin
Speaking with the Washington Post Google has told the public that it is bolstering and upgrading its encryption methods amid fresh revelations that the NSA is capable of ...
September 8, 2013 at 10:29 am by Ryan Martin
Yahoo has addressed recent revelations that the NSA and the GCHQ are both capable of getting around encryption. The revelations coming from the New York Times and the ...
September 7, 2013 at 10:55 am by Ryan Martin
