UK spy agencies systematically amass data on innocent people, legal challenge...
Privacy campaign group Privacy International says documents it has obtained through a legal challenge to the UK security agencies data-harvesting practices illustrate the extent to which spies have...
View ArticleUK report finds rising digital privacy concerns
A comprehensive study of Brits’ usage of and attitudes to digital media, conducted annually by telecoms watchdog Ofcom, suggests there is growing concern among web and app users about the privacy of...
View ArticleStudy shows government snooping is scaring people away from reading about...
If you’re in doubt about whether the US government’s various programs to spy on its citizens has made people more paranoid, this should clear things up. Jonathon Penney, a fellow at the University of...
View ArticlePrivacy International files judicial review to UK’s ability to hack devices...
Digital rights group Privacy International has filed a judicial review in the UK High Court of an earlier decision by the oversight body of the UK’s security agencies to sanction the use of so-called...
View ArticleGeneral Michael Hayden on the state of surveillance in America, presidential...
General Michael Hayden is no stranger to government — or to your data. As the former director of the NSA and the CIA, he oversaw controversial surveillance programs and had authority over some of the...
View ArticleAfter spying on social media, UK spy agency GCHQ officially joins Twitter
GCHQ, the UK spy agency which specializes in garnering intelligence from communications, has officially joined Twitter — posting a “Hello, world” inaugural tweet from its blue check verified account....
View ArticleYou can now start looking for clues in Snowden’s archive of NSA documents
It’s been years since whistleblower Edward Snowden first pulled back the curtains on the NSA’s mass surveillance program, and we still haven’t seen the entire trove of documents he discovered. Today, a...
View ArticleStanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata
More proof, if proof were needed, of the privacy-stripping power of metadata. A multi-year crowdsourced study, conducted by Stanford scientists and published this week, underlines how much information...
View ArticleUK surveillance bill’s controversial bulk powers to be reviewed
The UK government has agreed to an independent review of so called “bulk collection” — aka mass surveillance — powers in proposed new surveillance legislation, one of the most controversial elements...
View ArticleUK surveillance bill “too broadly drafted”, says human rights committee
Another parliamentary committee that has been scrutinizing UK surveillance legislation currently before parliament says changes are needed to remove concerns the Investigatory Powers Bill would afford...
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