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EU threatens to suspend data-sharing with U.S. over spy reports
By Adrian Croft BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is threatening to suspend two agreements granting the United States access to European financial and travel data unless Washington shows it is...
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President of Venezuela Offers Asylum to Snowden
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela announced his decision regarding Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor, after Mr. Snowden was turned down by several countries. President of Venezuela...
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Snowden gets Venezuela, Nicaragua asylum offers
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The quest by NSA leaker Edward Snowden for a safe haven has taken a turn toward Latin America, with offers for asylum coming from the leftist presidents of Nicaragua and...
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Venezuela asylum offer Snowden’s best option: Russian lawmaker
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Political asylum in Venezuela would be the best choice for former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Saturday. Venezuelan President...
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Brazil expresses concern at report of NSA spying
PARATY, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s foreign minister said Sunday his government is worried by a report that the United States has collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations in his...
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What Gmail Knows About You
Immersion, a tool built by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, helps Gmail users understand their own trail of Internet breadcrumbs. (MIT Media Lab) . When Google hands over e-mail...
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The Coming National DNA Database
A national DNA database is coming. Barack Obama has already said that he wants one. A major Supreme Court decision last month paved the way for one. The DNA of those that commit “serious crimes” is...
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Snowden documents could be ‘worst nightmare’ for U.S.: journalist
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could become the United States’ “worst nightmare” if revealed, a journalist familiar with...
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Putin accuses US of “foisting” Edward Snowden on Moscow
In a bitter comment Monday, President Vladimir Putin called the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s long stay at Moscow airport an unwelcome present foisted on Russia by the United States. Snowden...
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Internet freedom is called vital to religious freedom
WASHINGTON (BP)—Internet freedom is vital to religious freedom, and the United States should make greater efforts to breach the firewalls of repressive regimes, in the view of Baptist public policy...
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Vladimir Putin oversees largest display of Russia’s military might since Cold...
Vladimir Putin oversees largest display of Russia’s military might since Cold War, to send message of strength to the world Vladimir Putin oversees largest display of Russia’s military might since...
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UK spy agency’s use of U.S. data was legal: parliament
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s electronic surveillance agency did not circumvent the law by using data gathered by a clandestine U.S. spy program called PRISM, the British parliament said on Wednesday....
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16 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True
Are you a conspiracy theorist? If not, perhaps you should be. Yes, there have certainly been a lot of “conspiracy theories” over the years that have turned out not to be accurate. However, the...
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“Urban Warfare Training” and the Militarization of America
This week’s deployment of Blackhawk helicopters in Chicago is only the latest in a series of “urban warfare training” exercises that have become a familiar feature of American life. As elsewhere, this...
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“Its Legal”: US Congress Gives “Green Light” to Domestic Spying
Following intense pressure from the Obama administration and top intelligence officials, the US House of Representatives defeated an amendment that would have placed constraints on the National...
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Iran invites Snowden to visit and elaborate on US spying programmes
Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden has finally received an asylum offer of sorts, although it may not be the one he was expecting. Iranian state-affiliated Far News Agency has reported that an...
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US names hackers in country’s ‘biggest cyber fraud case in history’
Four Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a hacking network which defrauded a dozen US and international companies of more than… US names hackers in country’s ‘biggest cyber fraud...
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US tells Russia: ‘We won’t torture Edward Snowden if he is extradited home’
Edward Snowden will not be executed or tortured if he is extradited home from Russia, according to the United States Attorney General. US tells Russia: ‘We won’t torture Edward Snowden if he is...
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US assures Russia Snowden won’t be tortured or executed
WASHINGTON — Former US security contractor Edward Snowden would not face the death penalty or be tortured and would have all the protections of the US civilian court system if he were sent...
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Germans take to streets against US spying programme
Thousands of people have been protesting across Germany against the U.S. Government’s spying programme. They also expressed solidarity with Edward… Germans take to streets against US spying...
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New Concerns Raised Over NSA Access To Private Data
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who broke the news of the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs, said Sunday he will soon disclose new information about the access low-level...
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WikiLeaks Q & A: who is Bradley Manning and what did he do?
Who is Bradley Manning and how did his relationship with WikiLeaks lead to the largest intelligence leak in US history? WikiLeaks Q & A: who is Bradley Manning and what did he do?Filed under:...
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Julian Assange says Bradley Manning verdict is ‘dangerous precedent’ as...
Bradley Manning, the former military intelligence analyst who gave classified information to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks in 2010, was acquitted of aiding the enemy, the gravest charge laid against...
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Ex-FBI official claims organization can remotely activate the mic on Android...
The FBI has developed the capability to remotely switch on the microphones in Android handsets and record user’s conversations, claims an anonymous former U.S. official. Ex-FBI official claims...
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German companies to automatically encrypt emails
BERLIN (AP) — Two of Germany’s biggest Internet service providers say they will encrypt customers’ emails by default following reports that the U.S. National Security Agency monitors international...
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‘It cost the public dearly': Snowden says media have failed as government...
In his first interview since he outed himself as the source of leaked NSA documents, Edward Snowden said the media has given the government a free pass to grow unchecked power ever since the attacks of...
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Google tells US court: Gmail users can’t expect privacy
Users of Google’s email service Gmail should have no “legitimate expectation” that their emails will remain private, the company has said in a submission to a US court. Google tells US court: Gmail...
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NSA spying agency broke privacy laws ‘thousands of times a year’, says...
A leaked internal audit of the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) has reportedly shown that it broke privacy rules and overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year. NSA spying agency...
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Audit Finds NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Each Year Since 2008
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an...
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Latin America Condemns US Espionage at United Nations Security Council
“The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” Simon Bolivar Throughout the day, on August 6, President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner of...
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Google says UK law has no power over us: Outrage at search giant’s arrogance...
A group of Britons has taken Google to court over claims it bypassed privacy settings on Apple devices to track their browsing history. Google says UK law has no power over us: Outrage at search...
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Are the NSA Revelations Changing How We Use the Internet?
We are now in, roughly, week 11 of what has become a more or less steady stream of revelations about the NSA’s efforts to collect and analyze huge amounts of the data people create every day online....
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NSA surveillance covers 75 percent of US Internet traffic
The National Security Agency’s surveillance network has the capacity to reach around 75 percent of all US Internet communications in the hunt for foreign intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported...
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U.S. soldier Manning gets 35 years in WikiLeaks trial
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) – U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 35 years in a military prison for turning over more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks in the...
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Federal government currently able to spy on 75% of all U.S. web traffic and...
The U.S. government’s web-based domestic spying program is much more advanced, and has been going on for much longer than previously admitted, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. The...
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Student Drops Suit after School Scraps RFID Program
The San Antonio high school student kicked out for refusing to wear an ID badge with a computer chip is being allowed to return to class. Student Drops Suit after School Scraps RFID ProgramFiled...
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US admits electronic spying on Americans was illegal
WASHINGTON: The US government spied on electronic communications between Americans with no links to terror suspects until a judge ruled it illegal in 2011, officials acknowledged Wednesday. Under...
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U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters: Germany’s Spiegel
BERLIN (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations’ New York headquarters, Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly said on Sunday in a report on U.S. spying that could further...
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Surveillance Revelations Shake U.S.-German Ties
The issue is prompting not just a debate about privacy and data protection, but also demands from German officials that the Berlin-Washington security partnership be put on a new footing. Surveillance...
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It’s a deadly weapon… if you’re a fly! Shop asks mum to show ID to buy a FLY...
A 33-year-old mother was asked for ID when buying a 99p plastic fly swat – because staff feared it could be used as an ‘offensive weapon’. Nicola Butcher visited her local hardware shop to buy the...
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Facebook gets data requests on 38,000 users from governments
Social networking giant is latest technology firm to release figures on how often governments seek information about its customers Facebook gets data requests on 38,000 users from governmentsFiled...
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United Nations says NSA Hacked its Internal Communications
The United Nations said Monday that it will contact the United States about reports that the National Security Agency hacked its internal communications, and the world body emphasized that...
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The Staggering Power of NSA Systems Administrators
Reuters In Catch-22, there is a character whose constant desire to go AWOL results in a series of demotions. The reader is introduced to him as Ex-PFC Wintergreen, a lowly mail clerk. But it turns out...
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Facebook says countries sought data on 38,000 users in first half of 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Governments sought information on over 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of 2013 and the No.1 social network complied with most requests, the firm said in its first...
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The U.S. Makes Way, Way More Requests for Users’ Facebook Data Than Any Other...
Facebook/Rebecca J. Rosen (Click through for larger version). Facebook released its first ever transparency report today, taking a cue from Google in an effort to provide more information about...
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NSA paid companies like Facebook millions in taxpayer money to cover cost of...
Newly published top-secret documents show that the United States government has reimbursed tech companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft millions of dollars each year for their...
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New Snowden documents say NSA can break common Internet encryption
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has secretly developed the ability to crack or circumvent commonplace Internet encryption used to protect everything from email to financial...
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Edward Snowden leaks: NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption programs that EVERYONE uses
The latest round of leaks by National Security Administration whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that U.S. and British intelligence agencies have cracked many of the online security encryptions that...
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff postpones US visit over NSA spying
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has postponed a state visit to the US to protest an American spy programme that has aggressively targeted the Latin American nation’s government and private citizens...
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President of Brazil calls off visit to America over revelations U.S. spies...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off plans for a state visit to Washington in October because of revelations that the United States spied on her personal communications and those of other...
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