surveillance

Huawei Security Centre To Recieve British All-Clear

Finally some good news for Huawei as reports suggest its about to receive approval, despite security concerns elsewhere

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

SAP Sees NSA Scandal As ‘Opportunity’ To Boost Cloud Presence

Germany's reputation for data security could boost SAP's cloud services expansion

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

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

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Hits Out At GCHQ Snooping

Inventor of the World Wide Web slams the Internet snooping practices of the NSA and GCHQ

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

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

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

NSA Monitored 60 Million Spanish Phone Calls In One Month

Spanish authorities demand explanation after Snowdon documents reveal yet another mass surveillance operation

11 years ago

Mozilla Lightbeam Looks To Visualise Global Web Tracking

Lightbeam will allow users to visualise the way third parties track their web usage

11 years ago

Privacy Bodies Take GCHQ Snooping Fight To EU Court

Complaints lodged with European Court of Human Rights as the Snowden leaks fallout spreads

11 years ago

Caspar Bowden: I Don’t Trust My Ex-Employer Microsoft After NSA Leaks

Former Microsoft privacy advisor says he isn't convinced by the security offered by the company's tech

11 years ago

Dropbox Joins Cloud Giants Calling For NSA Transparency

Dropbox says it needs to show detailed figures on national security requests if it is to be transparent

11 years ago

Tech Titans Take Further Action On NSA Spying Transparency

Facebook, Google and Yahoo all lodge legal petitions to let them talk aboue NSA data requests

11 years ago

Yahoo Transparency Report Shows Germany’s Personal Data Desire

Yahoo releases its first transparency report and the UK isn't in the top two for data requests for a change

11 years ago

Wikileaks SpyFiles Show Surveillance Industry ‘Thriving Unchecked’

TechWeek digs into Wikileaks files to find a British supplier is implicated in selling to repressive regimes for significant sums

11 years ago

Google And Microsoft To Sue US Government Over Surveillance Transparency

They might not get on usually, but Google and Microsoft have joined forces to fight the US government over transparency…

11 years ago

NSA Illegally Scooped Up Thousands Of US Internet Communications

NSA wasn't honest about a snooping operation that scooped up rafts of US citizens' Internet communications, documents released by the…

11 years ago

David Miranda ‘Forced To Hand Over Passwords’

Glenn Greenwald's partner and occasional assistant claims he was told to hand over passwords for social media and email accounts

11 years ago

Groklaw Site To Close Over Email Surveillance Concerns

Open source community in shock as Groklaw closes because of concerns over email and Internet privacy

11 years ago

TechWeek Readers Abandon US Cloud Over Privacy

Our readers don't trust US cloud providers any more, it seems

11 years ago

If American Secure Email Services Close, Others Will Fill The Gap

We all have a right to privacy, says Sean Michael Kerner. With Lavabit and Silent Circle gone, someone else will…

11 years ago

City Of London Bins Recycling Firm’s Phone Tracking Test

Renew's recycling bins identify smartphones with Wi-Fi switched on, but the London startup says it isn't snooping

11 years ago

Obama Proposes Broad Surveillance Review

President Obama's proposed changes to the NSA's surveillance regime faces staunch opposition within Congress, while privacy advocates say it does…

11 years ago

Researcher Demonstrates DIY Eavesdropping System

CreepyDOL, a £40 device built from easily available parts, demonstrates how easy it is to track and gather information on…

11 years ago

Wikipedia Crew Plotting Anti-NSA Snooping Security Boost

Wikimedia Foundation says it appears to have been “specifically targeted by XKeyscore” NSA surveillance tool

11 years ago

NSA Chief Heckled At BlackHat As Agency Defends XKeyscore

Alexander fends off attacks from BlackHat audience member

11 years ago

NSA Mass Surveillance Survives House Vote

Amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act falls at House hurdle

11 years ago