Rovio, the Finnish company behind the massively successful Angry Birds franchise, has denied any collaboration between themselves and the NSA. In yet another bit of information released by Edward Snowden, he claims that the NSA us...
David Drummond has publicly stated that President Obama is not doing enough to change the way the NSA does things. Drummond, who is Google’s chief legal officer, believes that the government needs to alter the way they colle...
Is complete online privacy possible? Probably not. But we can try.
Apparently Apple’s CEO would like to disclose just what data Apple has shared with the American government, but can’t due to the gag order. Apple and other companies have received a lot of criticism over sharing data w...
In response to the fact that the National Security Agency has been monitoring its users, Microsoft has decided to offer those outside the US the option to store their data off of American soil. Microsoft seems to be the first majo...
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board have released a report in which they call the NSA phone data collection illegal and also ineffectual . The report, which is 238-pages, says that there have been “minimal”...
Edward Snowden has called for limitations to be put on US spying, in an online chat held on Thursday. During the chat he defended himself and said that any allegations concerning the theft of colleague passwords or tricking co-wor...
To Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, the key to cracking censorship lies in stronger encryption. Schmidt believes that through strengthening their encryption, companies will be able to protect people’s privacy from gove...
While President Barack Obama’s speech this weekend promised reforms, there are members of the tech industry who aren’t quite so happy with it. While the speech focused on things like the metadata collection of phone ca...
The New America Foundation (NAF) have written a report in which they say that the bulk surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), has “no discernible impact” on preventing terrorist actions. The repo...
It's all about privacy and social media in 2014.
Another meeting was held between the White House and members of the tech industry on Friday. Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and Google were represented at a meeting to discuss details on changes that are going to be made, hopefully, in...
Edward Snowden has been asked by the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) committee, which acts on behalf of the European Parliament, to help in their investigation of the NSA and NSA’s surveillance program. LIBE...
On January 3, US Senator Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to the NSA which essentially asked if the NSA is spying on or did spy on members of the United States Congress. The National Security Agency (NSA) has now released a statement...
According to the Washington Post, it seems that the US government — the National Security Agency (NSA) in particular — is working on a quantum computer which would be able to crack all the encryption that the public us...
