Surveillance-IT

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

Microsoft Considers Encryption To Protect Customers From Government Spies

The company is worried its data centres might have been tapped by the NSA

11 years ago

Microsoft’s Scroogled Store Opens For Google Haters

Microsoft's Scroogled Store provides the perfect Christmas gifts for those people who hate Google

11 years ago

British Security Chiefs Let NSA Store UK Email Addresses And Phone Numbers – Snowden

Latest documents give strongest confirmation yet that UK citizens have been spied upon by the NSA

11 years ago

Google’s Latest Transparency Report Criticises Intelligence Agencies

Google is not allowed to reveal how much information is requested by organisations like the NSA, and it’s not happy…

11 years ago

The NSA Refuses To Stop Spying On Germany

Representatives of the German secret services fail to reach an agreement with US colleagues

11 years ago

OpenStack Vendors Look To Protect User Privacy

At the OpenStack Summit, vendors discussed the actions they are taking to protect users from government surveillance

11 years ago

Box CEO Aaron Levie Calls Alleged NSA Spying ‘Inappropriate’

Box CEO calls for more transparency in government surveillance and says country-specific networks are a bad idea

11 years ago

Privacy Group Complaint Says Telecoms Giants ‘Colluded’ With GCHQ Snooping

BT, Verizon and Level 3 amongst those included in a Privacy International complaint with the OECD

11 years ago

Art Coviello: Attacking Anonymity, Just In The Right Places

RSA chief explains why he thinks anonymity is the enemy of privacy, but is he more than a little motivated…

11 years ago

Swisscom Pitches ‘Swiss Cloud’ Privacy Credentials To Concerned Businesses

Swisscom's 'Swiss Cloud' services could be attractive to companies concerned about the extent of government surveillance

11 years ago

Human Rights Groups Urge Cameron To Rethink GCHQ Snooping Reaction

Cameron's reaction to GCHQ's snooping has eroded the freedoms of the press and ignored threats to civil liberties, open letter…

11 years ago

Google And Yahoo Fibre Networks Allegedly Infiltrated By The NSA

The NSA could have harvested information from fibre optic channels connecting Google data centres

11 years ago

Silent Circle And Lavabit Creating Anti-Snooping Email Alternative

Edward Snowden's old email provider and Silent Circle announce the Dark Mail Alliance

11 years ago

ICO Fines North East Lincolnshire Council £80,000 For Lost USB Stick

ICO dishes fine after a teach lost a memory stick with information about 286 children with special needs

11 years ago