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Poorly redacted court filing reveals Google contested NSL gag order

A court filing that has been improperly redacted and has recently been made public by the US Department of Justice shows that Google asked a US court to remove the gag order …

NSA spied on UN officials after cracking encryption on UN teleconferencing system

The NSA has actively spied on United Nations’ officials and personnel after managing to compromise the encryption of the organization’s internal video conferencing …

Ruling shows NSA misled the FISC about data collection volume and scope

A (redacted) FISA court opinion released yesterday by the US government has shown that in 2011, a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that for …

Simple Steps to Data Encryption

After last week's Practical Anonymity, here is another book by Peter Loshin that you might need in this new world of ours. It's a practical, hands-on guide about how to use …

NSA surveillance system can listen to 75% of US Internet traffic

Another day, another set of revelations about NSA’s Internet surveillance capabilities and practices. Current and former government officials that (predictably) …

Miranda battles to have seized stuff back, Guardian details drive destruction

David Miranda, the partner of The Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, has employed UK lawyer firm Bindmans LLP to inform the British Home Office that they will challenging the …

Groklaw shuttered because email is no longer safe

Since 2003, Pamela Jones – then a simple paralegal, now a journalist and editor – covered legal news regarding free and open source software on her law blog …

The erosion of privacy in the digital world

Yves Le Roux is the Technology Strategist at CA Technologies and Chair of ISACA’s Data Privacy Task Force. In this interview he discusses the evolution of the digital …

UK agents detain Greenwald’s partner, destroy The Guardian’s hard drives

It has been an eventful weekend for The Guardian newspaper, its reporter Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda, as the British police held the latter and questioned …

Chrome plugin aims to thwart user profiling efforts

Inspired by a piece of fictional software described in Cory Doctorow’s book Little Brother, developer Ben West created a browser plugin that should, in theory, make it …

LastPass bug leaks plain text passwords

Users of popular password manager LastPass have been advised to update to the latest version of the software, which incorporates a patch for a recently discovered bug that …

Lavabit owner risks arrest for not complying with surveillance order

The incessant revelations fueled by the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have made people reevaluate their expectations of privacy and their beliefs on …

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