Your new post is loading...
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
I have had a teensy, torn bit of paper taped over the camera of my MacBook Air for years now because even before I knew the FBI could activate that thing without the indicator light , it always bugged me out that someone might be secretly snooping.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Germany hasn't been best pleased by the NSA's attention over the last few years. Now, though, it's revealed that it's taking drastic action, and ditching computers in favor of something more secure: typewriters.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Phone companies are against an NSA advisory panel recommendation that would have them -- instead of the NSA -- store phone metadata for an extended time, reports The Washington Post. [Read more]
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
I’ll admit it: I’m very conflicted on the topic of privacy. On the one hand, I’m offended by companies such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and other web companies that rely on our data to turn a profit and constantly push the bounds of our trust.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
A crowd of about 5,000 people, chanting "stop spying, stop lying" and "hey, ho, mass surveillance has got to go," marched through Washington, D.C., Saturday to protest the U.S.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Shutterstock Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now In a head-to-head match-up of which countries handle privacy the best, you may be surprised to learn who is respecting your data the most.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Hackers have hit back in retaliation for US cyber-spying on Brazil but mistook the US space agency NASA for the National Security Agency (NSA), a news website reported (هاكر برازيلي غاضب بسبب تجسس ال NSA على بلاده، يخترق 13 موقع تابع لوكالة الفضاء...
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Intelligence-gathering agency has created working groups to access contacts lists, SMS, and user location on the three most popular mobile platforms, according to classified documents viewed by Spiegel.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Companies say they could lose billions as customers become wary about their data being turned over to US authorities American technology businesses fear they could lose between $21.5bn and $35bn in cloud computing contracts worldwide over the next...
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Confused about this week's deluge of news about the NSA's secret surveillance programs?
|
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
The White House gave hope to critics of US government surveillance when it nominated a privacy-minded Deputy CTO last year, but it appears that those
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Image Credit: IsaacMao / FlickrAn MIT researcher claims he’s quantified some of the troubling self-censorship civil liberties advocates worried would result from public knowledge of mass spying.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
On the side of a spy satellite from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) that launched on Thursday night, you’ll find the logo for NROL-39: an Earth-encompassing octopus along with the tagline “Nothing is beyond our reach.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Some current and former U.S. intelligence officials say that the administration was not only aware of but OK'd the snooping, according to the Los Angeles Times. [Read more]
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Beginning in May 2010, the NSA gained access to the Mexican Presidencia domain on the Mexican Presidential network and began monitoring then-president Felipe Calderon's email account, according to a document leaked to Der Spiegel by Edward Snowden.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
Former foreign secretary says newspaper not in a position to judge whether its stories will damage national interest The Guardian has shown "extraordinary naivety and arrogance" over the publication of articles based on NSA documents leaked by the...
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
The British government pressured the country’s Guardian newspaper into limiting its surveillance coverage, another UK paper, The Independent, has revealed.
|
Scooped by
TechinBiz
|
How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure “file transfer protocol,” or FTP. And sometimes even by hand.
|