Surveillance-IT

Sharing Your Healthcare Data Is The Ethical Thing To Do

The NHS wants to share your healthcare data. Gayna Hart tells us that the scheme is safe - and it…

11 years ago

NSA ‘Can Hack Disconnected PCs’

NSA installs radio bugs in PCs, reports say

11 years ago

NSA Snooping Had ‘Minimal’ Impact On Fighting Terrorism

NSA said to be exaggerating impact of bulk metadata gathering

11 years ago

Google Slated For Opening Gmail Inboxes To Google+ Spam

Privacy row hits Google as Google+ users get the power to send email to strangers on Gmail

11 years ago

Deutsche Telekom Customers Test Clean Pipe Service

Germany advances efforts to escape foreign surveillance, as customers test DT's Clean Pipe service

11 years ago

French Watchdog Fines Google Over Data Privacy Policy

CNIL hits Google with a record fine for failing to amend its privacy policies

11 years ago

English GPs To Start Sharing Anonymised Patient Data

The Department of Health hopes the scheme, starting in March, will help inform better choices

11 years ago

TorrentFreak News Site Blocked By Sky Porn Filter

More fury at filters blocking non-offensive websites

11 years ago

IT Firms Probe NSA Allegations

Cisco, Dell and others are investigating claims that the NSA compromised their products

11 years ago

Snowden Reveals NSA’s Classified Quantum Computing Project

The US agency is building a machine that could make all encryption obsolete

11 years ago

Report: NSA ‘Uses Vulnerabilities To Exploit Networking Gear’

The US' National Security Agency has an internal list of security vulnerabilities that it uses to place surveillance code into…

11 years ago

NSA ‘Intercepted PC Shipments To Install Malware’

Spy agency said to have diverted targets' PC orders to "load stations"

11 years ago

Declassified Documents Prove 9/11 Led To Mass NSA Surveillance

Fear of another Al-Qaeda attack kept the intelligence agencies collecting ever increasing amounts of data

11 years ago

Verizon To Publish Transparency Reports In 2014

Verizon to publish list of law enforcement requests twice a year, but says its hands are tied on security demands

11 years ago

ICO Publishes Privacy Guidelines For App Developers

Have a clear privacy policy or risk alienating users, warns the data protection watchdog

11 years ago

Bruce Schneier Leaves BT As Surveillance ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Denied

Schneier isn't leaving because of alleged BT connections with GCHQ spying, as "conspiracy theories" are shrugged off by the telecoms…

11 years ago

Tech Titans Meet Obama To Urge NSA Surveillance Reform

Obama faces the dream team of Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt and Tim Cook

11 years ago

BT Forces Customers To Make Parental Controls Choice

BT will offer network level parental controls to customers - and there's no sitting on the fence

11 years ago

French Intelligence Granted More Snooping Powers Than NSA

France complains of NSA surveillance - but has given French intelligence services more powers to monitor calls and emails

11 years ago

Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Lawsuit

Google will argue in a jurisdiction hearing today that privacy lawsuits over alleged tracking of mobile and desktop users' browsing…

11 years ago

Privacy Pros Delight At International Surveillance Malware Pact

Digital surveillance and state-sponsored malware are added to the Wassenaar Arrangement on controlling exports

11 years ago

NSA And GCHQ Targets World Of Warcraft And Xbox Live – Snowden

British and US agents search video games for intelligence, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden

11 years ago

Google And Facebook: Back Off Government, Snooping Is Our Business!

How can Facebook and Google tell the US government to limit surveillance, and then ask for more scope for snoop…

11 years ago

Raspberry Pi Used To Hijack Drone Over Wi-Fi

Hacker shows how to take over a Parrot drone using some cheap equipment and freely-available software

11 years ago

Cyber Monday: The Day Of The Marketing Tentacles

Cyber Monday sucks, and it's all a sign of the faltering creativity of marketers, who are getting ever more invasive,…

11 years ago

Google Breaks Our Privacy Laws, Says Dutch Watchdog

Yeah, for sure, Google breaks our privacy laws says Dutch Privacy Watchdog after investigation

11 years ago

The NSA Tracked Porn Access To Discredit Alleged Jihadists

Intelligence agency explored the idea of leveraging “personal vulnerabilities”

11 years ago