A new Android app dubbed SnoopSnitch has been launched to detect surveillance attempts on your smartphone. Developed by security researchers Alex Senier, Karsten Nohl, and Tobias Engel from Berlin-based security company SRLabs,…
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Kim Dotcom announces new ‘fully-encrypted’ video-calling, chat service
Founder of file-sharing service Mega, Kim Dotcom has announced he will soon launch a ‘fully-encrypted’ video calling and chat service that will take on Microsoft’s popular VoIP service, Skype. “Mega will soon…
NSA allegedly spied on emails of mobile phone company employees
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…
Report: FBI begins secret lobbying to gain access to Apple, Google encrypted customer data
A new report from a well known intelligence historian and an expert on the National Security Agency (NSA), US claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has begun secret lobbying efforts…
EFF rolls out IFightSurveillance.org to fight online surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched IFightSurveillance.org, a new website that aims to fight online surveillance. The new website IFightSurveillance.org has been designed to educate people about how mass surveillance takes…
Twitter sues US government agencies over data request rules
Twitter on Tuesday announced it has sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over restrictions imposed on disclosing government data requests. As per regulations imposed by the…
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 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 sued over ‘illegal’ surveillance by 7 International ISPs
ISPs, ‘at threat’ of being targeted, call for an end to all the alleged surveillance programmes!
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.”…
Yahoo: Traffic moving between our data centres is fully encrypted
Yahoo has announced through a blog post that all the traffic between its data centres is now full encrypted, as a part of an ongoing project under which it intends to deploy…
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,…
Twitter stops working on encrypted direct messages
Twitter has reportedly abandoned its encrypted direct messages project through which it aimed to make government surveillance more difficult. According to The Verge, the microblogging giant has stopped working on the project…
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…