New documents shared by Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA), US was spying on emails of mobile phone company employees under an operation dubbed AURORAGOLD. According to a report…
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FBI chief lashes out at Apple, Google over default cell-phone encryption
James Comey, the Director at Federal Bureau of Investigation, lashed out at Apple and Google over their default cell-phone encryption practice which, according to him, allows “people to place themselves beyond the…
Edward Snowden granted Three years stay in Russia
Snowden’s lawyer: Snowden is living in an undisclosed location in Russia and has an IT job, learning Russian and lives of his own salary,
Edward Snowden wants global hackers to develop anti-surveillance technology
Snowden: We the people — you the people, you in this room right now — have both the means and the capability to improve the future by encoding our rights into programs and protocols by which we rely every day. [..] and that’s what a lot of my future work is going to be involved in, and I hope you’ll join me in making that a reality.
Dropbox is ‘hostile to privacy’, Snowden claims
The whistleblower has dubbed Condoleezza Rice as the most anti-privacy official one can imagine.
GCHQ litigated over ‘unlawful hacking’
UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been sued by Rights group Privacy International on Tuesday, demanding an end to surveillance programs deemed to be “incompatible with democratic principles and human rights standards.”…
NSA breached Huawei servers claim latest Snowden leaks
Huawei, Chinese telecom and Internet Company, on Sunday condemned the reports, which claim the US National Security Agency to have breached the company’s internal servers. According to a New York Times report,…
NSA Lawyer: Tech giants knew about NSA’s data collection
The general counsel for the National Security Agency (NSA) dismissed criticism within the tech community on Wednesday, stating that Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other tech giants knew about the data collection. The…
US Gov announces plans to relinquish control over internet
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) made an announcement on Friday that it is transitioning the function to the “global Internet community” and will give up its oversight…
Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA Spying
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg personally called US President Barack Obama on Wednesday to express frustration over the US government’s surveillance programs. Zuckerberg spoke with the president following the most recent leaks of…
NSA posed as Facebook to spread surveillance malware
Latest leaks by the whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been disguising itself as a Facebook server in order to gain access to the computers of intelligence…
Tim Berners-Lee calls for ‘Online Magna Carta’
Speaking on the 25th anniversary of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for the ‘Online Magna Carta,’ a Bill of Rights. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee, believes a…
Edward Snowden urges for broader encryption use at SXSW
Edward Snowden, appearing on screen via Google Hangout routed through seven proxies from his current location in Moscow, Russia, was welcomed with applause at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in…
NSA wants quantum computer that can break encryption
The National Security Agency (NSA), US is reportedly trying to develop a quantum computer that can break any encryption almost any kind of encryption. According to a report on the Washington Post,…
HMA! Pro VPN using Edward Snowden for PR?
Using Edward Snowden’s name for promoting an anonymous VPN service may attract quite a few users considering how the recent NSA related revelations have rocked the online world. And this is exactly…