In the 18 months since the Silk Road online black market for narcotics was taken down by a swarm of three-letter agencies, a site known as Evolution has taken its place at the top of the dark web drug trade. Now Evolution, too, has suddenly dropped o
When a reporter for a Denver FOX affiliate asked authorities with the US Postal Service why a hidden surveillance camera had been placed at a local post office such that it could capture the faces and license plates of individuals dropping off mail,
Within an hour of FOX31 Denver discovering a hidden camera positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features of customers leaving a Post Office, the device was ripped from the ground and disappeared.
This lookup archive is a collection of all documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have subsequently been published by news media.
Just months after U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants to ban encryption and online anonymity, the country's parliament today released a briefing saying that the such an act is neither acceptable nor technically feasible.
The buildings there are crammed with sophisticated NSA spying technology, used by New Zealand to sweep up text messages, emails, phone calls, and other communications in bulk across the Asia-Pacific.
Hervé Falciani, the French-Italian whistleblower who handed over 100,000 HSBC client accounts to French authorities in 2009, says his decision was prompted by an international network of secret agents and tax officers.
Court documents in a federal armed New Jersey bank robbery case that went to trial reveal an unusual back-and-forth between authorities and judges--ultimately resulting in the FBI seeking and getting a warrant to use a stingray.
?It's 2015--when we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, 72 percent of US internet users look up health-related information online.
"Vigilant Video is compiling a vast database tracking Americans' movements, and it's no surprise that one of the most prolific users of surveillance, the NYPD, would seek to access it...for the first time enabling the mass tracking of Americans,
A federal court again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program.
Florida law enforcement have been using stingrays thousands of times since at least 2007 to investigate crimes as small as a 911 hangup. They also seemingly obliquely refer to stingrays in police reports as "electronic surveillance measures,"
The law the Obama administration cites to allow bulk telephone metadata collection expires June 1, and the FBI has begun lobbying to keep Section 215 of the Patriot Act from expiring. Bad guys "going dark" using encryption,
Between 2015 and 2017, the Pentagon will have the ability to decipher human voices in surveillance audio even if background noise makes the covertly recorded conversations inaudible.