Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gushed over former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, calling him a "total hero" and saying he "gave up his life" to reveal the agency's surveillance programs.
The U.S. Government, with a little help from our British cousins and a very special relationship, monopolized a black market of unprecedented scope; which has left addiction and countless fatal overdoses in its wake. That's a fact.
At an 18th-century mansion in England's countryside last week, current and former spy chiefs from seven countries faced off with representatives from tech giants Apple and Google to discuss government surveillance in the aftermath of Edward Snowden
In an effort to remain as transparent as possible, and to clarify questions regarding history, use and policies associated with License Plate Recognition Systems (LPR's) (a.k.a. License Plate Readers), the Town has assembled this packet of material
U.S. lawmakers of both parties and in both houses say they are unsure how Congress will deal with the federal government's expiring authorization for domestic surveillance in the fight against terrorism.
• http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Maggie Ybarra
FBI agents can't point to any major terrorism cases they've cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of th
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden took to Reddit Thursday, once again answering questions about surveillance reform, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's 10-hour filibuster, and whether or not he misses pizza in Russia.
Amid lots and lots of interesting, and wonderful to hear on the floor of the Senate, stuff from Rand Paul in his just-concluded talk about all the reasons why the Patriot Act needs to go and the USA Freedom Act needs to be amended before it's passed
Remember the bombshell report from March that accused agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) engaging in wild sex parties with prostitutes? Well, apparently that's not the only good part of it, as MuckRock just discovered.
A group called "we are always listening" has been raising awareness about the NSA by recording people's private conversations while they speak with friends in public.
Today, software can be a weapon. Malware has been used to spy on activists from Bahrain, and the Ethiopian government has targeted journalists while they were in the United States.
Right after Islamist militants attacked Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery in January, leaving 17 people dead, we swore we would not fall into the surveillance trap.
The USA Freedom Act has passed the United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly with 338 votes in favor and 88 against. It now moves to the U.S. Senate.
Remember the "right to be forgotten"? It's been a year since the EU Court of Justice ruled that search engines must "delist" out-of-date or inaccurate links in results if requested, and the anniversary has been marked with a set of stats from G
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he is shocked at how little information the National Security Agency is collecting through American phone records.
Germany's BND intelligence agency sends mammoth amounts of phone and text data to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) each month, Die Zeit Online reported, highlighting the scale of spying cooperation which has unleashed a political row here.
Tales of suspected controlled deliveries by police and seizure letters from customs agents are so prevalent in the dark web community that some have written them off as "FUD"--fear, uncertainty, and doubt--planted by law enforcement to dissuade
This week, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the Australian government is actually guilty of some of the same privacy violations that the US government is now infamous for.
This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA's metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, The court found.
A bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives would require law enforcement agencies to obtain court-ordered warrants before searching electronic communications of U.S. citizens.