We need to encrypt everything, the whistleblower tells South by Southwest festival, over a live link from Moscow
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Microsoft: Government Data Requests Target Individuals
Police and government data requests focused overwhelmingly on individuals over enterprises in 2013, according to Microsoft
Legal Protests Will Keep NSA’s Phone Record Hoard For Longer!
A legal complaint to stop the NSA storing phone records is having the opposite result, says Wayne Rash. The data could be kept forever!
GCHQ Could Have Been Watching Your Webcam Feed
Snowden documents suggest GCHQ was collecting millions of images of law-abiding citizens obtained directly from their webcams during online chats to build a giant face recognition database
Poll: What’s The NSA Scandal Done To Your Attitudes?
Now surveillance by governments has been exposed, has the NSA scandal affected your trust for leading Internet brands?
Angela Merkel Proposes Secure European Communications Network
Pan-European network would help improve data security following recent NSA snooping allegations
Internet Giants Reveal Secret Government Data Requests
Tens of thousands of requests were made by the FISA court in the first half of 2013
Chancellor Merkel Warns UK And US On Surveillance
Merkel says snooping “sows distrust” amongst allies in address to German parliament
Obama’s Spy Reforms Will Hit Political Quicksand
President Obama's phone surveillance reforms make little difference, and face political deadlock, says Wayne Rash
Obama Is Not Curbing NSA’s Data Centre Activity
President Obama can't halt the NSA's data collection, even if he wanted to, says Peter Judge
Obama: NSA Phone Surveillance Will Be Controlled… Some Day
President Obama defended the creation of a phone call database but promised access to it will be controlled
Quiz Of The Week: Edward Snowden And the NSA
Edward Snowden's revelations of NSA surveillance have sparked arguments round the world. How well do you know the story?
Vodafone Demands Right To Publish Government Surveillance Requests
Vodafone writes to 24 governments to ask for more freedom to be open
NSA Snooping Had ‘Minimal’ Impact On Fighting Terrorism
NSA said to be exaggerating impact of bulk metadata gathering
Deutsche Telekom Customers Test Clean Pipe Service
Germany advances efforts to escape foreign surveillance, as customers test DT's Clean Pipe service
UAE Alleges US Backdoors Found In Its Spy Satellites
The United Arab Emirates has allegedly discovered two US-supplied 'security compromising components' in French-provided military satellites
Snowden Reveals NSA’s Classified Quantum Computing Project
The US agency is building a machine that could make all encryption obsolete
NSA Trawls Crash Data For App Vulnerabilities – Report
The NSA reportedly monitors data from application crashes in order to pinpoint vulnerabilities
How Governments Will Shape Data Centres
Governments' energy policies and surveillance activities will unintentionally shape our data centres, says Peter Judge
Apple Denies NSA Backdoor For iPhone
Apple denies it created a backdoor to allow the NSA to spy on the iPhone
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 networking equipment, according to a report
NSA ‘Intercepted PC Shipments To Install Malware’
Spy agency said to have diverted targets' PC orders to "load stations"
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
NSA Slapped By Courts, IT Firms And Obama’s Advisors
The US government will ignore much that Obama's advisors ask for, says Wayne Rash, but some things will change
Obama Report Says NSA Snooping Risks Public Trust
President Obama's task force wants to make sure a new Edward Snowden is not possible... or necessary, says Sean Michael Kerner
Cisco: Snowden Leak Hit Chinese Sales ‘Unfairly’
Questions about Cisco's role in NSA surveillance have hit Cisco's sales unfairly, the UK director of security tells TechWeek
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
NSA Follows You With Google’s Cookie Trail
The NSA is tracking you with Google cookies. Sean Michael Kerner is not surprised
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
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 themselves, asks Tom Brewster