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The Seemingly Unanswerable Question: Can The Government Use Location Data To...
You remember Locationgate, right? It was that massive national scandal that left both Apple and Google at the center of our discontent, after two German researchers discovered that the iPhone tracks...
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Phone Surveillance Revelation Should Prompt Reassessment Of NSA Spying
Does evidence of a decades-old surveillance program throw out the case many public officials have made for the modern surveillance state? Since Edward Snowden first leaked documents about secret...
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Surveillance Reform Movement Rallies Ahead Of June 1 Deadline
After two years of roadblocks in reforming the National Security Agency programs revealed by Edward Snowden, it seems the viral John Oliver segment and impending program deadline are breathing new...
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Congress Returns Next Week With A Tech-Heavy Agenda
Congress is back from a recess this week, and with lawmakers we’ll see the return of some familiar issues. We will see Congress address patent reform and cybersecurity in the coming weeks. Once...
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Senate Votes 67-32 To Reform The NSA’s Phone Record Program
On a vote of 67 to 32 today, the Senate passed the USA FREEDOM Act. The bill, which will now race to President Barack Obama’s desk, marks the first time Congress has moved to reform the National...
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Europe Sets Out Three Month Timetable To Seal New Data-Transfer Deal With U.S.
The European Commission has said it wants ongoing talks with the U.S. to agree a so-called ‘Safe Harbor 2.0’ agreement on data transfers to be completed by January 2016 — laying out a three month...
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Federal Judge Doubles Down On Expiring Phone Record Collection Program
A federal judge called President Obama to immediately end the bulk collection of Americans’ phone metadata, just weeks before the program is scheduled to end. The decision from Judge Richard Leon of...
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Privacy Advocates Celebrate The End Of The NSA’s Phone Record Collection Program
The NSA shut down its bulk phone record collection program yesterday, more than two years since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed the program to journalists and prompted a global debate...
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EU-US Safe Harbor Data Flow Talks Still Sticking On Surveillance
As the three-month deadline for Europe and the U.S. to agree a new transatlantic data transfer deal looms, EC officials are briefing that the U.S. needs to do more to improve transparency around its...
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Can this video parody get Brits to care about online privacy?
After John Oliver used humor to tackle the U.S. surveillance reform debate last year, to try to get Americans to care about online privacy — via the mass medium of, er, dick pics — U.K. comedy duo...
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General Michael Hayden on the state of surveillance in America, presidential...
General Michael Hayden is no stranger to government — or to your data. As the former director of the NSA and the CIA, he oversaw controversial surveillance programs and had authority over some of the...
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New Snowden document reveals UK spy agency warned of ‘too much data’ risk in...
Another document from the original cache leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 has just been published by The Intercept, and it further bolsters the view that government intelligence...
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Digital toxic waste (or why metadata shouldn’t live forever)
Despite increasing privacy concerns the tech industry continues to collect and store massive amounts of metadata associated with every digital transaction. These extensive historical accounts of...
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Everything you need to know about the NSA hack (but were afraid to Google)
In what Edward Snowden deems “not unprecedented” hackers calling themselves the Shadow Brokers have collected NSA-created malware from a staging server run by the Equation Group, an internal hacking...
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Cisco and Fortinet say vulnerabilities disclosed in ‘NSA hack’ are legit
A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped data online this weekend that it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, a hacking team widely believed to be associated with the NSA. Firewall...
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Snowden docs link NSA to Equation Group hackers
A group calling itself the ShadowBrokers dumped data online last weekend that it claimed to have stolen from a hacking team widely believed to be linked to the NSA. The data contained vulnerabilities...
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Ashton Carter talks Equation Group hack, encryption debate and military...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter argued the case for splitting up the leadership of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on stage at Disrupt SF, while stressing, “We haven’t made...
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NSA contractor arrested for theft of six classified documents
A National Security Agency contractor was arrested in August for the theft of classified material, which reportedly contained hacking codes for government systems in Russia, China, North Korea and...
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Shadow Brokers post list of compromised IP addresses
Last night, after several months of relative quiet, a hacking group calling itself the Shadow Brokers posted new data purportedly stolen from the NSA. The group’s last leak in August included malware...
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Intel report on hacking says Russian interference with US election was...
Today the U.S. intelligence community released a report claiming that the Russian government was behind hacks of American political organizations during the 2016 election cycle and that the hackers...
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