surveillance

With Lavabit’s closure and Silent Circle’s shutdown of its Silent Mail, the question is where to turn next for a secure email service. Prims-break.org has a few …

Late last Friday, US president Barack Obama has held a press conference centered mostly on US surveillance programs, the details of which have been leaked, bit by bit, by …

Texas-based secure webmail service Lavabit has unexpectedly closed up shop on Thursday, and the explanation given by owner and operator Ladar Levison is as follows: I have …

If anyone knows what's really going on in cyberspace and which forces threaten stability and security, it's Ronald Deibert and his colleagues from the well known and reputed …

Just days after the NYT wrote about the NSA denying other federal intelligence agencies access to their surveillance tools comes the disclosure that a US Drug Enforcement …

The revelations of mass online spying by US government agencies that involved cooperation from the British and the German governments and intelligence services, as well as the …

The FBI has been known to use malware to spy on suspects via their computers but mobile phones make even better sources of information. Just think about it: the great majority …

If you have followed the unfolding of the NSA surveillance scandal, you have probably heard the mantra “It’s only metadata!” repeated many times by US …

The US government and its intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have apparently been trying to get Internet firms to hand over both their users’ account passwords …

An amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 that would curtail funding for NSA’s collection of electronic communication data in cases where the …

Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who has been stuck in the transit zone of the Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport for the last month, has finally been given …

Nineteen organizations including gun ownership advocates, and a broad coalition of membership and political advocacy organizations filed suit against the NSA for violating …