Yet again, putative acts of terror -- bombs detonated and discovered in New York and New Jersey, and a mass stabbing in Minnesota -- conveniently paved the way for an expansion of police and surveillance state powers in the U.S., while providing an
Has the surveillance state claimed the last bit of our privacy? Our lives are being stored at enormous "data centers" in the US and abroad. Everything we do, every transaction, every website we visit. This has nothing to do with terrorism and everyth
Following Edward Snowden's leaking of details of government surveillance programs, the issue of the U.S. intelligence community's use of private contractors has again been highlighted.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell--and why the Internet will never be the same.
Where there is a will, there is a way. Regardless of security measures that might be in place, there appears to be no electronic device in the world that cannot be hacked, whether smartphone, tablet, computer, mainframe or even government agencies.
Karen Kwiatkowski (Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel) comes on the show to talk about her recent article, Can the Deep State be Cured? - Davi Barker (Writer, Author, Artist, Agorist, Peace Advocate) Karen/Davi/Ernest
The Intercept recently began releasing batches of top secret internal newsletters from the most important division of the NSA, the Signals Intelligence Directorate, or SIGINT.
A discussion of 31 events establishing the "national security state", more often called today the "warfare state", beginning 1941 and ending this decade. Also: how to identify good evidence, how to unravel deep fraud, and a list of 22 helpful experts
Encryption tools that keep your digital communications hidden from prying eyes are becoming more widespread, and Canadian police say they need a law that compels people to hand over their passwords so cops can access those communications.
The exposure of malicious software purportedly linked to the National Security Agency is likely a message from Moscow, former intelligence worker Edward Snowden said Tuesday, adding a layer of intrigue to a leak that has set the information security
WITHIN TWO WEEKS of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones.
With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out there.
If you are a taxpayer in the Land of the Free, you may have recently received a love letter from the Social Security Administration that went something like this:
David Axe for the Daily Beast reports The Russian military is apparently getting ready to launch a new generation of high-tech spy satellites.It could help Moscow begin to match the as-yet-unrivaled resolution of America's own eyes in orbit.
The surveillance industry is notoriously secretive and opaque. But on Tuesday, activists at Privacy International released a searchable database on over 500 surveillance companies, including many of their brochures and export data.
Over a year before Edward Snowden shocked the world in the summer of 2013 with revelations that have since changed everything from domestic to foreign US policy but most of all, provided everyone a glimpse into just what the NSA truly does on a dail
And though he hadn't yet revealed it at the time of the conference in March, Signal's encryption protocol had been integrated into WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging app, with over a billion users.
The bones of our democracy -- the core elements that separate that way of life from others -- lie in the First Amendment to the Constitution, specifically the rights to free speech and a free press.
Ashley Parker for New York Times reports Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton's email, essentially encouraging an adversarial foreign power's cyberspying on a secretary of state's correspondence.
As Technocrats collect data on the aggregate of society, hackers are busy stealing the data for their own uses. However, this is much like a small leak in a water pipe. Technocrat controllers are not too concerned as long as they control the whole da