Fears over NSA surveillance revelations endanger US cloud computing industry
American technology businesses fear they could lose between $21.5bn and $35bn in cloud computing contracts worldwide over the next three years, as part of …
Snowden deals blow to ‘global electronic prison camp’ – Russian Orthodox Church
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has praised Russian authorities for not caving in to pressure from abroad, saying granting asylum to US whistleblower Edward Snowden would …
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity …
‘Prolific Partner’: German Intelligence Used NSA Spy Program
Angela Merkel and her ministers claim they first learned about the US government’s comprehensive spying programs from press reports. But SPIEGEL has learned that …
Court sides with Yahoo, orders U.S. to declassify Prism surveillance ruling
(Reuters) – A secret U.S. court overseeing government domestic surveillance activities has sided with Yahoo Inc and ordered the Obama administration to declassify and …
55 Charts That Prove Governments Are Increasingly Censoring Your Internet
Since 2009, Google has been lauded for publishing “transparency reports” on government requests to take information offline. Each time a government official asks for …
US taps half-billion German phone and internet activities a month
US combs through half a billion of German phone calls, emails and text messages on a monthly basis and has classified its European ally …
Cyber warfare: Don’t get caught in the cross hairs
We are on the precipice of a cyber-war. The recent revelations around Prism provide an extreme example of how nation states are taking a …
It’s Time to Rewrite the Internet to Give Us Better Privacy, and Security
It’s not too late to restore confidence, writes “digital Cassandra” Lawrence Lessig, but we need to start by asking the right questions. Almost 15 …
U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video …
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