NSA operations have been going on a long, long, long, long time, that is according to the latest revelations by both Edward Snowdon and also by a report from The Intercept, ...
August 5, 2015 at 11:30 am by Christopher Files
While some governments are trying to ban end-to-end encryption or insert backdoors into encrypted systems, a prominent yet unexpected voice has spoken out in support of ...
July 29, 2015 at 4:00 am by Ashley Allen
UK Prime Minister David Cameron plans to ban any online messaging platform that uses end-to-end encryption, such that it would be unreadable by the country’s intelligence ...
July 24, 2015 at 11:00 pm by Ashley Allen
This story is so preposterous that I am going to play a little game called; “who are the hypocrites here.” Hacking Team, who recently fell to a cyber attack have released ...
July 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Christopher Files
Let me just jump on my soapbox for a minute with regards to this subject, according to reports, the newly elected Conservative Government wants to again reintroduce the ...
July 10, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Christopher Files
In an exclusive interview with Byline, Julian Assange spoke about the evolution from the surveillance state to the surveillance society, in which communities are complicit in ...
June 24, 2015 at 3:28 am by Ashley Allen
A number of US companies are set to lose an estimated $35 billion collectively due to revelations regarding NSA surveillance, as uncovered by Edward Snowden two years ago, ...
June 10, 2015 at 6:55 am by Ashley Allen
UK government ministers announced over the weekend that it has awarded contracts to five companies to monitor citizen’s online content and provide that information to ...
June 8, 2015 at 11:55 pm by Ashley Allen
US President Barack Obama has blamed a “handful of senators” for blocking the USA Freedom Act, designed to extend the mass surveillance legislated by section 215 of the ...
May 31, 2015 at 10:55 am by Ashley Allen
In a post on its blog, Mozilla has expressed its deep concern over the French National Assembly’s Projet de Loi Relatif au Renseignement, a new law which legitimises mass ...
May 14, 2015 at 5:58 am by Ashley Allen
In a huge victory for freedom, privacy, and human rights, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that bulk collection of telephone metadata undertaken by the ...
May 7, 2015 at 6:58 pm by Ashley Allen
A 2009 CIA document – released courtesy of a victorious Freedom of Information lawsuit filed against the US Department of Justice and published by The New York Times – has ...
April 27, 2015 at 7:58 am by Ashley Allen
Since the inception of the Patriot Act, and amplified since the Snowden leak, the oft-repeated justification for intelligence services running mass surveillance programs is ...
April 9, 2015 at 11:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Wikipedia has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA) over the anti-constitutional nature of its internet mass surveillance program, as revealed ...
March 11, 2015 at 1:58 am by Ashley Allen
The University of Toronto, in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), has created an online searchable database of every document leaked by NSA ...
March 10, 2015 at 8:58 pm by Ashley Allen
