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U.S. court will not halt NSA phone spy program before ban
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday refused to immediately halt the government’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ phone records during a “transition” period …
Police seek powers to access browsing history of UK computer users
Police have lobbied the government for the power to view the internet browsing history of every computer user in Britain ahead of the publication …
Irish privacy watchdog to investigate Facebook over spying allegations
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has agreed to investigate allegations that Facebook exposes its users’ personal data to mass snooping by U.S. intelligence services, …
Microsoft doesn’t see Windows 10’s mandatory data collection as a privacy risk
In the run-up to the launch of Windows 10 earlier this year, users noticed that Microsoft’s operating system would be collecting more data on …
Australia to allow Facebook photos to be used in national surveillance database
Photos from social media websites like Facebook could be used in an Australian counter-terrorism database. Critics are concerned about the system’s lack of “transparency,” …
Activists Target NSA Facility in Germany With Drones
The group of activists flew a drone that dropped leaflets over a National Security Agency (NSA) complex in Germany encouraging its employees resign, The …
British spies cast net to monitor every web surfer, everywhere, leaked documents show
When British spies gave their Internet surveillance program the codename Karma Police they may have given away a little too much about its epic …
Amendments to CISA “Cybersecurity” Bill Fail in All Regards
Although grassroots activism has dealt it a blow, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) keeps shambling along like the zombie it …
U.S. court hands win to NSA over metadata collection
A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge’s ruling that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting phone metadata under …
AT&T’s ‘extraordinary, decades-long’ relationship with NSA
The telecoms giant AT&T has had an “extraordinary, decades-long” relationship with the National Security Agency, it was reported on Saturday. Citing newly disclosed NSA …
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