A few days ago, I was speaking to a client who informed me that "the PATRIOT Act expired last week." She went on to tell me that as a result, she now felt her electronic communications were safe from warrantless government surveillance.
While most Americans are focused on Christmas shopping -- while not obsessed with "homegrown terrorism" -- Congress is busy pushing legislation that will hit the pocketbook and further curtail privacy. A legislative update with Campaign for Liberty's
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin capturing facial and eye scans of foreigners entering the country at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry on foot. By February, foreigners going to Mexico on foot through the checkpoint will get scanned.
If you were looking for a needle in a haystack, simple logic would tell you that the smaller the haystack the likelier you are to find the needle. Except for the government.
It turns out that the NSA never stopped collecting e-mail metadata on Americans. They just cancelled one particular program and changed the legal authority under which they collected it.
Newly declassified: "A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II)," the David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency (NSA), 1973. (Initially declassified in 2008. We just got a whole bunch of additional material declassified.
Hackers have leaked the private login details of nearly 1,415 officials at the UN climate talks in Paris in an apparent act of protest against arrests of activists in the city.
The Internet has gotten in trouble for armchair sleuthing before. After the Boston Massacre, Reddit tried its hand at finding the perpetrators, only to bring national attention to the wrong guy and temporarily thwart an actual criminal investigation.
In a series of pamphlets circulated among local governments in the United Kingdom, British parents are now being encouraged to spy on their own children, and to report any instances of possible 'radicalization'.
The recent sunsetting of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act has been heralded as the end of NSA spying on our phone calls. In fact, this is a smokescreen. The spying continues under the "reform" FREEDOM Act and other executive orders. Will people wake up
The Paris terror attacks have prompted Belgium to call for a unified European intelligence agency that would share information to nip future threats in the bud. The idea has been met with skepticism from such EU members as Germany.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has used a secretive authority to compel Internet and telecommunications firms to hand over customer data including an individual's complete web browsing history and records of all online purchases, a court filin
An Israeli-made surveillance balloon is being used by the Paris municipal police to help guard the global climate change summit currently underway in Paris.
With as many as 1,000 active cases, Fox News has learned at least 48 ISIS suspects are considered so high risk that the FBI is using its elite tracking squads known as the mobile surveillance teams or MST to track them domestically.
In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized with the efficiency that had built a retail empire.
Patrick Wood interviews Dr. Katherine Albrecht regarding "smart" devices, Internet of Things, pervasive surveillance and ways to take back your privacy.
Surveys the various voter surveillance practices recently observed in the United States, assesses the extent to which they have been adopted in other democratic countries, and discusses the broad implications for privacy and democracy.
While Donald Trump is facing heat for apparently supporting the idea of a database of Muslims in the U.S., GOP primary opponent Ben Carson also wants a database -- of everyone in the country.
While Donald Trump is facing heat for apparently supporting the idea of a database of Muslims in the U.S., GOP primary opponent Ben Carson also wants a database -- of everyone in the country.
The NSA didn't know it was already sitting on a "goldmine" of data on one of its targets until one of its analysts discovered it by "sheer luck," according to an internal newsletter entry leaked by Edward Snowden.
Researchers discovered this vulnerability and submitted it to CERT. Neither the researchers nor CERT disclosed it to the Tor Project. Instead, they used it to deanonymize hidden service visitors and provide the information to the FBI.