Over in Germany the Whistleblower award jury has decided to award Edward Snowden with the prestigious title for his efforts in revealing the mass surveillance of the NSA. The ...
September 2, 2013 at 1:12 pm by Ryan Martin
Microsoft has announced that it is making another push for transparency against the NSA. It claims that lawsuits filed against the U.S government have been totally ignored and ...
August 31, 2013 at 11:04 am by Ryan Martin
The New Zealand Herald reports that New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has been let off facing police charges for illegally spying on Kim ...
August 29, 2013 at 1:43 pm by Ryan Martin
Anonymous are continuing their campaign against the New Zealand government. The new campaign #OpKiwiFreedom is fighting against the recently passed GCSB bill which essentially ...
August 27, 2013 at 11:31 am by Ryan Martin
It has already been relatively well documented that the NSA’s internal audit has revealed very little so far about what Snowden actually took; they know he took a lot of ...
August 26, 2013 at 1:29 pm by Ryan Martin
What better way to put a light-hearted spin on the whole NSA saga than with a sarcastic NSA parody account. The “ICofftheRecord” account describes itself as ...
August 25, 2013 at 5:37 pm by Ryan Martin
A report by the Wall Street Journal has revealed that NSA officers have exploited the NSA surveillance system to spy on their partners. The practice apparently isn’t ...
August 25, 2013 at 5:17 pm by Ryan Martin
As the UK government steps up its efforts to censor the Guardian newspaper from publishing material based on the Snowden leaks, by abusing prior restraint and pre-publication ...
August 25, 2013 at 4:41 pm by Ryan Martin
According to declassified documents revealed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation the USA’s FISA court found that NSA spying had been unconstitutional since 2011. Three ...
August 22, 2013 at 9:50 am by Ryan Martin
An NBC report, citing sources within the intelligence community, has stated that the NSA is still trying to figure out exactly what Edward Snowden managed to take from the NSA ...
August 21, 2013 at 10:11 am by Ryan Martin
Documents published by the Washington Post reveal that the NSA broke privacy rules, laws and regulations thousands of times each year. The details do not specify the ratio ...
August 16, 2013 at 4:21 pm by Ryan Martin
With both Lavabit and Silent Circle shutting down their encrypted email services it is currently quite hard to find yourself an encrypted email client these days that has a ...
August 13, 2013 at 5:54 pm by Ryan Martin
According to another new Guardian report the NSA has been conducting warrant-less spying on its own U.S citizens despite claiming frequently in the media that it has not been ...
August 12, 2013 at 11:54 am by Ryan Martin
This weekend the U.S President Barack Obama unveiled new plans to reform the NSA’s surveillance programs. He says he wants to rebuild public trust in the NSA after ...
August 11, 2013 at 8:54 pm by Ryan Martin
According to a report by Russia Today the NSA is claiming that it “only touches 1.6%” of daily internet traffic. By the standards of percentages, 1.6% is ...
August 11, 2013 at 5:54 pm by Ryan Martin
