In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military's Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya's cellphone networks
Journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald had the foresight to film all of their interaction with Snowden, documenting history for posterity. Now you can see it in real time, like you were there.
To see is to believe, says Oren Yakobovich -- which is why he helps everyday people use hidden cameras to film dangerous situations of violence, political fraud and abuse. His organization, Videre, uncovers, verifies and publicizes human-rights abus
Members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee have sent a letter to the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) demanding to know more about the beginnings of a $1 million taxpayer-funded project to track conservative "misi
The NY City Police Department sent detectives to Ferguson, Missouri in order to gather intelligence on "professional agitators" as the grand jury investigating the chokehold death of a Staten Island man draws to a close.
Court documents from 2 federal criminal cases in New York and California that remain otherwise sealed suggest the Department of Justice is pursuing an unusual legal strategy to compel cellphone makers to assist investigations.
If only George Orwell could see us today. When he wrote "1984" back in 1948, he probably never imagined that the "totalitarian, bureaucratic world" that he imagined would ever actually become a reality.
University of Adelaide forensic anatomy researchers are making advances in the use of "body recognition" for criminal and missing persons cases, to help with identification when a face is not clearly shown.
The ACLU jumped into the criminal case of a man who federal prosecutors allege orchestrated a murder-for-hire supporting the defendant's motion the government disclose how it used a cell-site simulator, without a warrant,
The United Nations has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to governments spying on their own citizens. On Tuesday, the general assembly ?adopted a resolution that underscores the right to privacy and condemns unlawful mass surveillance in the n
The German federal government warned national agencies and companies not to use Windows 8. The reason? An alleged backdoor giving the NSA access to a hidden feature which apparently can't be shut off and allows remote control
Documents reportedly from the Edward Snowden cache show that in 2009, GCHQ (and by association, the NSA) had access to the traffic on 63 submarine cable links around the globe. The cables listed handle the vast majority of
The last place one should look to impose limits on the powers of the US government is . . . the US government. Governments don't walk around trying to figure out how to limit their own power, and that's particularly true of empires.
Researchers have unearthed highly advanced malware they believe was developed by a wealthy nation-state to spy on a wide range of international targets in diverse industries, including hospitality, energy, airline, and research.
I just had a chance to see the documentary about NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden. Citizenfour is an amazing look behind the scenes at the revelation that the National Security Agency has a number of programs for collecting and analyzing information
The desktop printer-sized machine takes cheek swabs, cigarette butts, or fabric and generates a DNA profile in about 90 minutes that can be entered into a database and checked against other profiles to find a match.
The United States is a textbook tyranny. The techniques it has used towards governing (controlling) its people are essentially the same used by the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and East Germany. For instance, in the Soviet Union,