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Tag: nsa surveillance

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:28 pmWednesday, January 29, 201457 Comments

A Norwegian member of parliament nominated former U.S. National Security Agency…

U.S gov’t reaches deal with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn to allow data disclosures on national security orders

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:32 pmTuesday, January 28, 201413 Comments

The Justice Department on Monday reached agreements with…

U.S. NSA watching, tracking phone users with Google Maps

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:29 pmTuesday, January 28, 201418 Comments

The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been…

Apple issues update on U.S. NSA and law enforcement orders

Monday, January 27, 2014 11:51 pmMonday, January 27, 201423 Comments

Apple Inc. has released the following statement…

Apple’s Tim Cook on U.S government surveillance: ‘There is no back door, the government doesn’t have access to our servers’

Friday, January 24, 2014 4:25 pmFriday, January 24, 201432 Comments

Cook touches on his concerns regarding the NSA and their deeply controversial PRISM surveillance program…

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer calls on Obama administration to provide greater U.S. NSA transparency

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:26 amWednesday, January 22, 201427 Comments

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo Inc.’s chief executive…

Obama’s NSA proposals fall far short of real change

Friday, January 17, 2014 1:21 pmFriday, January 17, 201437 Comments

The White House’s tepid plan aims to calm the public, not curtail U.S. government surveillance programs…

U.S. NSA devises radio pathway into computers to conduct surveillance, launch cyberattacks

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:28 amTuesday, January 14, 201428 Comments

The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers…

The NSA, Apple’s iPhone and a whole lot of bad reporting

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:32 pmWednesday, January 8, 201412 Comments

With the treasure trove of classified information Edward Snowden…

U.S. NSA seeks to build quantum computer to crack most types of encryption

Friday, January 3, 2014 11:48 amSaturday, January 4, 201434 Comments

In room-size metal boxes ­secure against electromagnetic leaks…

Jacob Appelbaum’s extraordinarily disingenuous claims about NSA penetration of Apple iPhones

Tuesday, December 31, 2013 2:01 pmTuesday, December 31, 201342 Comments

Jacob Appelbaum has yet another revelation from the Edward Snowden trove…

Apple: We’ve never worked with U.S. NSA to create a backdoor in any of our products, including iPhone

Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:30 pmTuesday, December 31, 201338 Comments

Apple just responded to newly released documents claiming that the U.S. National Security Agency…

Ex-NSA chief calls for Obama to reject commission’s recommendations to rein in NSA surveillance

Monday, December 30, 2013 7:13 pmMonday, December 30, 201336 Comments

etired general Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency…

How the U.S. NSA remotely bugs your Apple iPhone

Monday, December 30, 2013 4:28 pmMonday, December 30, 201373 Comments

Following up on the latest stunning revelations released yesterday…

Report: U.S. NSA intercepts computers during shipping to install surveillance malware

Monday, December 30, 2013 9:16 amMonday, December 30, 201351 Comments

The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon…

Research shows how Mac webcams can spy on their users without warning light

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:37 pm53 Comments

The woman was shocked when she received two nude photos of herself by e-mail…

U.S. government panel recommends new limits on NSA spooks

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:28 pmWednesday, December 18, 201315 Comments

A panel of presidential advisers who reviewed the National Security Agency…

Tech leaders challenge Obama over NSA surveillance at White House meeting

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:30 pmTuesday, December 17, 20138 Comments

A White House meeting meant to get technology executives…

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Obama tech meeting was ‘great’

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:01 pmTuesday, December 17, 201332 Comments

Obama today faced a group of executives including Apple’s Tim Cook…

Obama to face Apple CEO Tim Cook, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, other tech execs pressing for NSA limits

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:20 amTuesday, December 17, 201317 Comments

Obama today will face a group of executives including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook…

U.S. federal Judge: NSA phone surveillance program likely violates Fourth Amendment of U.S. Constitution

Monday, December 16, 2013 3:01 pmMonday, December 16, 201329 Comments

A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program…

U.S. NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:28 amWednesday, December 11, 201330 Comments

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools…

New Snowden leak reveals U.S. NSA planted agents inside ‘World of Warcraft’

Monday, December 9, 2013 3:30 pmMonday, December 9, 201341 Comments

Documents provided by Snowden from 2008 say that the NSA…

Apple, Google, others call for government surveillance reform

Monday, December 9, 2013 10:01 amMonday, December 9, 201330 Comments

Eight U.S. technology giants are making a joint appeal to reform government…

Ex-official: FBI can secretly activate an individual’s webcam without indicator light

Monday, December 9, 2013 8:25 amSunday, December 8, 201396 Comments

The most powerful FBI surveillance software can covertly download…

Obama to propose curbs on NSA spying

Friday, December 6, 2013 9:40 amFriday, December 6, 201352 Comments

U.S. President Barack Obama plans to propose curbs on the National Security Agency…

Obama stuck with BlackBerry, says not allowed an iPhone ‘for security reasons’

Thursday, December 5, 2013 9:32 amThursday, December 5, 2013100 Comments

US President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday he was not allowed to have an iPhone…

NSA spying risks $35 billion in U.S. technology sales

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 11:31 amWednesday, November 27, 201347 Comments

The trust that’s threatened is essential to U.S. technology companies…

Apple iPhones phased out of German government in favor of encrypted phones to block U.S. NSA spying

Friday, November 22, 2013 6:12 pmFriday, November 22, 2013119 Comments

Members of the German government will use encrypted phones…

U.S. Rep. Goodlatte sees surveillance restrictions passing Congress

Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:11 pm48 Comments

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte…

How and why Silicon Valley turned on Obama

Friday, November 15, 2013 11:41 am106 Comments

In the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election, Silicon Valley…

U.S. Senate panel passes plan to continue mass surveillance; Apple, other tech firms, civil-liberties groups oppose

Friday, November 1, 2013 9:23 am32 Comments

The Senate Intelligence Committee approved legislation…

U.S. NSA secretly infiltrated Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:01 pmWednesday, October 30, 201342 Comments

The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications…

Obama administration decides NSA spying is ‘essential,’ but oversight of NSA is not

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 4:33 pm75 Comments

While the National Security Agency (NSA) has largely escaped…

What email provider Lavabit did to avoid giving the US government its data

Thursday, October 3, 2013 1:00 pmThursday, October 3, 201340 Comments

The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail…

What if Marissa Mayer went to jail?

Friday, September 13, 2013 2:31 pmFriday, September 13, 201350 Comments

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer presented her company’s side of fighting the National Security Agency…

German government: Windows 8 contains U.S. NSA snooping back doors; too dangerous to use

Friday, August 23, 2013 9:02 amFriday, August 23, 201336 Comments

The National Security Agency’s snooping practices may be costing American companies a lot of money…

Report: NSA can see 75% of U.S. Web traffic, can snare emails

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 2:28 pmWednesday, August 21, 201346 Comments

The National Security Agency has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans’ Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed…

Apple CEO Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Obama to talk surveillance

Friday, August 9, 2013 8:29 amFriday, August 9, 201330 Comments

Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook…

PRISM: How to fly under the radar

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 11:00 amTuesday, August 6, 201327 Comments

Don’t listen to charlatans like Eric Schmidt who insist that you have nothing to fear…

FBI can remotely activate microphones in Android smartphones, source says

Friday, August 2, 2013 5:45 pmFriday, August 2, 201342 Comments

Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely…

NSA can read email, online chats, track Web browsing without warrant, documents leaked by Edward Snowden show

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:30 pmWednesday, July 31, 201373 Comments

A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search…

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