According to Rajesh De, a senior lawyer at National Security Agency (NSA), big tech companies like Google and Yahoo were aware of mass data collection by the NSA and provided NSA with complete assistance during the process. This ...
Caspar Bowden, privacy adviser for Microsoft from 2002-2011, has expressed his concerns over Microsoft after the NSA revelations. The ex-employee who was associated with Microsoft for more than 9 years is not sure whether to trust...
The NSA has a lot of data to sort through — basically any internet traffic that passes through the US can be intercepted and gathered by the agency. And anytime something suspicious pops up like searches for “Al Qaeda&...
Classified documents viewed by German news website Spiegel have revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has the ability to access user data on three major mobile platforms: Android, iOS and BlackBerry OS. According to ...
The boycott of U.S. based email services has begun ladies and gentlemen, all due to the massive NSA scandal leaked by former NSA contractor and whistleblower, Edward Snowden. According to the Times of India, the Indian government ...
Unfortunately for the Tor Project, its massive influx of new users may not be due to a renewed interest in online privacy. According to Dutch security company Fox-IT, the big leap in Tor usage was actually due to cyber criminals u...
If there’s one good thing that will come out of the whole PRISM fiasco, it’s that many internet users should start to take their privacy online more seriously. And according to these new metrics released by the Tor Pro...
To avoid violating the Fourth Amendment Right of Americans, the NSA says that their surveillance program only collects the metadata of peoples’ communications — not the content. This means the numbers that are being di...
The NSA PRISM initiative is slowly backfiring on the American government, but as it stands, American companies could suffer the most, as foreign countries grow weary of using American software. According to German website Zeit Onl...
These days, it seems we can’t go by a couple of hours without hearing news about the NSA and their privacy-obliterating spying programs. But what if we were wrong about these programs? And PRISM, was actually just a social n...
A newly leaked report has spurred yet again another round of backlash against the NSA, one that Americans may never forget. According to a Washington Post report, the NSA collected information illegally on over 3,000 American citi...
"Soon there won't be anyone left to spy on!"
Last week Google has pushed an important update, which provides server side encryption to all data stored on Google Cloud Storage. That is, Google will now automatically encrypt new data uploaded to the cloud before it is written ...
When Lavabit, the email service used by Edward Snowden, shut itself down, many people were worried that it was the end of secure privacy-focused email. Kim Dotcom has decided to capitalize on that by putting up a “highly-sec...
NSA spying doesn't necessarily need to be all bad.
