The Spy State Tightens its Grip
Americans are paying an ever-increasing price, both in dollars and the loss of personal privacy, to maintain the spy state. … Read More
View ArticleSecret NSA cybersecurity program to protect power grid confirmed
Newly released documents confirm that the National Security Agency (NSA), America’s top cyberespionage organization, is spearheading a cloaked and controversial program to develop technology that could...
View ArticleDaily Report: U.S. Is Said to Have Secretly Tapped Internet Companies
The federal government appears to have been secretly tapping the largest Internet companies for nearly six years, according to documents that emerged on Thursday, Charlie Savage and Edward Wyatt report...
View ArticleIntelligence Agencies and the Data Deluge
Politicians say intelligence agencies are just looking at the metadata, not the content, of traffic. But in many cases metadata matters more than content. … Read More
View ArticleBig Data Intelligence Sleuthing, 1960s Style
An I.B.M. computer made for the National Security Agency, delivered in 1962, shows how intelligence agencies have long been among the most demanding of customers for advanced computing, data collection...
View ArticleDaily Report: Google, Facebook and Microsoft Ask to Reveal U.S. Data Requests
The technology companies asked the government for permission to reveal details about the classified requests they get for the personal information of foreign users, Claire Cain Miller reports in The...
View ArticleFacebook Discloses Basic Data on Law-Enforcement Requests
The social network said it received 9,000 to 10,000 requests for data from American law enforcement authorities in the second half of 2012, but said it could not disclose how many of those were related...
View ArticleDaily Report: ‘The Scariest Threat Is the Systems Administrator’
As the N.S.A., some companies and the city of San Francisco have learned, information technology administrators, who are vital to keeping the system running and often have access to everything, are in...
View ArticleUsing E-Mail Data to Connect the Dots of Your Life
A reporter tries out Immersion, a project by M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory that looks at who you're corresponding with via e-mail and stitches it together into an interactive graphic. … Read More
View ArticleNow, You Can Follow Government Intelligence Agencies Back
A new Tumblr blog from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence promises a more transparent look at surveillance practices. … Read More
View ArticleTech Companies Escalate Pressure on Government to Publish National Security...
On Monday, Yahoo and Facebook filed suit in a secret court to ask for permission to publish data on the national security requests they receive, and Google and Microsoft amended the suits they had...
View ArticleGovernment Announces Steps to Restore Confidence on Encryption Standards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology said it would reopen the vetting process for a controversial encryption standard after reports that the National Security Agency had developed the...
View ArticleDaily Report: Europe Weighs Regulations for Cloud Computing
The European Parliament is preparing amendments to its digital privacy regulation that would change the rules governing cloud computing. … Read More
View ArticleSeeking Online Refuge From Spying Eyes
For some entrepreneurs, a new goal: offering online interaction without a chance of surveillance. … Read More
View ArticleInternet Archive Will Shield Visitors
Inspired by recent revelations of the depth of the N.S.A.'s monitoring of online behavior, the Internet Archive is taking a step to ensure the privacy of its users. … Read More
View ArticleGoogle Employees Speak Out About Government Spying
The Google lawyer who oversees national security requests testified before Congress Wednesday, while in an unofficial capacity, Google security engineers lambasted the government for surveillance. …...
View ArticleAfter N.S.A. Disclosures, Yahoo Moves to Encrypt Internal Traffic
Google, Yahoo and other technology companies are feverishly enabling new security features in an effort to assure users that they are doing everything possible to secure their data. … Read More
View ArticleDaily Report: N.S.A. May Have Tapped Internet Cable Links
The National Security Agency may have been able to eavesdrop on Google and Yahoo users by infiltrating a weak spot in the Internet giants' security: the fiber-optic cables that connect data centers...
View ArticleDisruptions: Internet’s Sad Legacy: No More Secrets
Applications like Snapchat and Whisper are gaining popularity because they claim the rarest of digital commodities, privacy, but can they really deliver?Read more ›
View ArticleDaily Report: Judge Rules Against Collection of Phone Data by N.S.A.
The judge in the case described the technology behind the keeping of systematic records on all Americans' phone calls "almost Orwellian" and said the agency's program was most likely...
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