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Vuvuzela Messaging System Hides Metadata With Spam
There are lots of ways people try to protect their privacy in the modern world, where techniques like encryption are under fire. While hiding message content can be effective, the ability to collect a mass of metadata can be just as invasive to your privacy if a company, government body…
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NSA to End Blanket Mobile Surveillance by Deadline
In recent years, we have had several revelations in regards to how and what our governments and our agencies do in order to “protect us”, this has at times included activities which go against the very laws and principles that the countries they swore to protect were founded on. One…
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NSA Kept E-Mail Metadata Program After Claiming it Ended in 2011
Following the massive leak of surveillance data by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, it was revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA – its headquarters pictured above) had been collecting e-mail metadata as part of a program it claimed ended in 2011. However, a lawsuit filed by the New…
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Online Digital JPEG images May Soon Be Subject To DRM
Oh what fresh hell is this? If you thought the pitfalls of DRM (Digital Rights Management) had finally dawned on the tech industry, then well no, no it has not. Considering an initiative which has been launched by the Joint Photographic Experts Group with the aim of attempting to persuade people…
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GCHQ’s Karma Police Has Been Watching Everyone Online
The British intelligence services have been engaging in a mass surveillance program, the likes of which have never before been known, which has been recording the online browsing habits of “every visible user on the internet”. Through its program, dubbed Karma Police, the UK government’s intelligence and security organisation GCHQ…
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US Senate Rejects Metadata Surveillance Review Legislation
Edward Snowden revealed that the US intelligence agencies was monitoring and collecting information outside of their jurisdiction, collecting data in what has been judged as an illegal action. With the actions previously claimed to be covered under section 215 of the Patriot Act, the legislation is largely in debate given…
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Australian Police Commissioner Thinks Metadata Should Be Used to Prosecute Pirates
Australian’s, are you a little bit afraid that your metadata details could be used to prosecute you in a court of law? Well, a new and in-depth interview with the Australian Federal Police Commissioner has revealed that you should be. Australia’s Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin let loose in an interview with…
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BitTorrent releases Decentralised Voice and Text App “Bleep”
Data mining and user security is as important as ever, with the vast array of documentation leaks over the last 24 months leaving many bewildered by the intense surveillance of their private online data. BitTorrent has taken the golden opportunity to release its decentralised communication platform titled “Bleep”. The application…
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Canadian CSEC Not Too Different From NSA-like Actions, Says Leaked Snowden Report
Recent Snowden leaks reveal that Canada is as good at spying as any other agency there is (yes NSA, you are not the biggest and the baddest). It appears that the documents reveal spying operations and bulk data collection, as well as user tracking in an airport. The Communications Security…
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What Happens When The Government Wants To Monitor Via ISP
What happens when internet service providers (ISP) work with the Government? All of your incoming and outgoing traffic is monitored, and snatched up, that is what happens. Who really knows what criteria needs to be met for the Government to take an interest in one person. I am sure that…
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