Newly released documents from NSA leaker Edward Snowden have revealed a new spy program called “Optic Nerve,” and the details will be horrifying to some Yahoo users. According to the documents, the GCHQ — the Bri...
President Obama is currently reviewing four alternatives to the mass surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The deadline for this decision is March 28th, t...
New documents released by Edward Snowden show how the NSA went after WikiLeaks as well as those associated it. Details of these efforts have been published by The Intercept, and they show how the NSA as well as the UK’s Gove...
Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve, has denied rumors that it is keeping an eye on user’s browser history through the Valve Anti-Cheat system (VAC). The rumor was given strength by a thread on Reddit that...
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, is going to meet this week with French President Francois Hollande to discuss the possibility of a Europe’s own internet network, one that will allow them to avoid US spying. Merkel, who...
A new set of documents from leaker Edward Snowden have revealed to the New York Times that the NSA worked with its Australian counterpart in monitoring a US-based law firm, while the firm was representing Indonesia in trade disput...
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky who describes himself as a “constitutional conservative” is a known libertarian, has filed a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama, as well as others who are ...
Over 6,000 websites are protesting today (Feb 11) over the intrusive nature of the NSA and their mass surveillance programs. The protest is being supported by major sites like Tumblr, BoingBoing, Reddit and it is being called R...
The Intercept, a new publication headed by Glenn Greenwald, who broke many of the NSA revelations last year, has published a new report regarding the NSA. The report reveals that data from NSA phone surveillance is regularly used ...
Apparently the NSA doesn’t collect metadata on the majority of mobile phones. This information comes to us from a report by the Wall Street Journal. According to the article, the NSA “collects data for about 20 percent...
The secret FISC court has approved the changes that President Obama wants to make to the NSA’s data collection abilities. While it will take time to implement these changes, the two main changes include the NSA now having to...
Yesterday, several of the major tech companies released information on the amount of requests they received from the government. Now the numbers still aren’t specific, and deal in ranges, but it does give the public a better...
More documents from Edward Snowden have revealed how British spies went after the hacktivist group Anonymous. Britain’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), which is similar to the NSA, ran an operation called R...
It appears that Canada’s spy agency has monitored Canadians through their access to free Wi-Fi at an undisclosed airport. This information comes to us through another document released by Edward Snowden. It seems that the Co...
Bard Vegar Solhjell and Snorre Valen, two lawmakers in Norway, have nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize. The two, who are members of the Socialist Left Party, have released a joint statement in which they say that S...
