The House on Wednesday rejected an attempt to curtail the National Security Agency…
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Obama administration scrambles to shut down imminent U.S. House vote to defund NSA spying
A showdown is set to take place in the US House of Representatives today…
Obama administration demands master encryption keys from firms in order to conduct electronic surveillance against Internet users
The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies…
Obama administration petitioned to not buy products from foreign companies that have infringed upon US company patents
The Obama administration faces a new petition…
Apple, Google, dozens of others push Obama administration to disclose U.S. surveillance requests
Dozens of companies, non-profits and trade organizations including Apple…
South Korean Samsung said to be near deals to supply Android devices to U.S. FBI and U.S. Navy
Samsung Electronics Co. is close to signing deals for its devices with two U.S. government agencies…
Apple teams with tech companies, civil liberties groups to demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance
The number of government requests for information about their users…
Edward Snowden seen as whistle-blower by majority of U.S. registered voters
The view of Snowden as a whistle-blower rather than traitor predominated among almost every group…
How Microsoft handed U.S. NSA, FBI, CIA access to users’ encrypted video, audio, and text communications
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted,,,
Google has already inserted some U.S. NSA code into Android
Tech giants listed as part of the National Security Agency’s Prism…
Those who brush-off NSA surveillance because it’s ‘just metadata’ don’t have the slightest idea what metadata is
One of the key themes that has come out from the revelations concerning NSA surveillance…
Black-box testing reveals Apple can provide users’ iMessage or FaceTime conversations to NSA
Ever since the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program came to light…
DuckDuckGo search engine surges 33% in wake of PRISM scandal
The ‘anonymous’ search engine DuckDuckGo is getting a boost off the PRISM scandal…
Wikileaks’ Spy Files show government snoops on Mac, Windows
Wikileaks has a web page called the Spy Files that shows off a number of Internet surveillance…
