Snowden receives Swedish ‘alternative Nobel Prize’ via video from Moscow
Edward Snowden has received the Right Livelihood Award, a Swedish-based alternative to the Nobel Prize, for revealing state surveillance which violated basic democratic and …
New Malware Tool Aims to Detect Government Surveillance
Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other groups are throwing their weight behind a new open-source software malware detection project called Detekt. Unlike …
A Guide to Stingray Cellphone Surveillance Technology
What exactly is a “Stingray”? How is it being used to track you? Find out more about this cellphone surveillance technology. Local police departments …
Secret US spy program targeted Americans’ cellphones
The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones through fake communications towers deployed on airplanes, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects …
Few Messaging Apps Found To Be Truly Secure
How secure Relevant Products/Services is your favorite messaging app? In all probability, not very. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, only six applications were …
GCHQ views data without a warrant, government admits
British intelligence services can access raw material collected in bulk by the NSA and other foreign spy agencies without a warrant, the government has …
British Spies Allowed to Access U.S. Data Without a Warrant
British authorities are capable of tapping into bulk communications data collected by other countries’ intelligence services—including the National Security Agency—without a warrant, according to …
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