Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s eviction from Ecuador’s embassy in London now looks unlikely after the country’s new president Lenin Moreno said he could remain in the diplomatic building. The Wikileaks founder has been holed up there for the past five years after applying for asylum in Ecuador to avoid arrest in connection with sexual assault […]
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Lawmaker Demands Trump Admin Hand Over Unredacted Report On Phishing Email Attacks…
A House committee asked the Interior Department Thursday to hand over an unredacted copy of a newly-released report detailing how more than 100 employees were “compromised” in a phishing email attack. Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter to Interior Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall asking […]
GOP Lawmaker Suggests Seth Rich Murder ‘Should be part of the ongoing investigation into alleged Russian interference’…
“My fear is our constant focusing on the Russians is deflecting away for some other things that we need to be investigating,” Farenthold said on the network. “There’s still some question as to whether the intrusion of the DNC server was an insider job or whether or not it was the Russians.”Later Wednesday, Farenthold elaborated…The […]
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Major U.S. Tech Firms Press Congress for Internet Surveillance Reforms…
Facebook, Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase government transparency. The request marks the first significant public effort by Silicon Valley to wade into what is expected to be […]
Declassified Memos Show FBI Illegally Shared Spy Data on Americans with Private Parties…
The FBI has illegally shared raw intelligence about Americans with unauthorized third parties and violated other constitutional privacy protections, according to newly declassified government documents that undercut the bureau’s public assurances about how carefully it handles warrantless spy data to avoid abuses or leaks. In his final congressional testimony before he was fired by President […]
Introducing the Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet…
The internet is broken. It has been for a while. Even the fathers of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, say that it’s broken. We realize you are probably reading this on the internet, and it seems to be working just fine. So how exactly is the internet broken? Imagine a world where […]
A Federal Appeals Court Cleared the Way for a Lawsuit Against NSA’s Surveillance Practices…
A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s collection of emails, texts and other online communications that privacy experts have long argued violates constitutional protections of Americans’ privacy. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond on Tuesday reversed a lower court decision and declared […]
“Yahoobleed” Flaw Leaked Private Email Attachments and Credentials…
For years, Yahoo Mail has exposed a wealth of private user data because it failed to update widely used image-processing software that contained critical vulnerabilities. That’s according to a security researcher who warned that other popular services are also likely to be leaking sensitive subscriber secrets. Chris Evans, the researcher who discovered the vulnerabilities and […]
Instagram Is the Most Harmful Social Network for Your Mental Health…
Our addictive feeds of fitness models, exotic travel, and photo-perfect moments don’t often match with our comparatively humdrum and badly lit lives. The discontent caused by that disconnect is enough that a growing body of research suggests social media is contributing to mental-health problems such as anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, and body-image issues in young […]
Cable Industry Lobbyists Write Republican Talking Points on Net Neutrality…
Following the vote last week by the Federal Communication Commission to unwind the net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama administration, House Republican lawmakers received an email from GOP leadership on how to defend the decision. The email was shared with The Intercept and the Center for Media and Democracy. Net neutrality is the principle […]
Obama Intel Agency Secretly Conducted Illegal Searches on Americans for Years…
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to […]
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Google Starts Tracking Your Offline Shopping–What You Buy at Stores in Person…
Google already monitors your online shopping — but now it’s also keeping an eye on what you’re buying in real-world stores as part of its latest effort to sell more digital advertising. The offline tracking scans most credit and debit card transactions to help Google automatically inform merchants when their digital ads translate into sales […]
If You Care About Privacy, You Should Change Your Twitter Settings Right Now…
Since Wednesday, Twitter has been sending out emails and notifications to its over 300 million monthly users to inform them of changes to their privacy policy. The new policy, which goes into effect on June 18, includes changes to data collection, data sharing, and digital advertising. The policy is being run on an ‘opt-out’ basis, […]
Kim Dotcom Releases Statement on Seth Rich and What He Knows…
“#Seth Rich was a hero. I know this because in late 2014 a person contacted me about helping me to start a branch of the Internet Party in the United States. He called himself Panda. I now know that Panda was Seth Rich. Panda advised me that he was working on voter analytics tools and […]
Getting Assange: The Untold Story by John Pilger…
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s collusion with the United States in its crimes of war and “rendition”. Had Assange not […]
Hacker Ring Busted before Going Global after Stealing from Russian Bank Customers…
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has announced the arrest of a hacker group, which installed viruses on smartphones to steal money from customers’ bank accounts. To steal the money, the hackers used the SMS-banking system, with money transfers taking place without notification. The police did not specify which banks were involved but said […]
Facebook’s Internal Rulebook on Sex, Terrorism and Violence…
Facebook’s secret rules and guidelines for deciding what its 2 billion users can post on the site are revealed for the first time in a Guardian investigation that will fuel the global debate about the role and ethics of the social media giant. The Guardian has seen more than 100 internal training manuals, spreadsheets and […]
Occupy Silicon Valley: The Next Populist Movement…
Standout gains in large technology stocks like Amazon.com and Apple show just how much the sector is disconnected from the sluggish growth on the rest of Main Street, one notable strategist said in a report titled “Occupy Silicon Valley.” The tech stock rally “could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution of the increasingly concentrated […]
China Intervenes to Block Businessman From Revealing Spying Secrets on VOA…
An exiled Chinese businessman with close ties to the government has begun revealing secrets about Beijing’s intelligence operations after China pressured the official Voice of America radio to curtail a lengthy interview with him. Four VOA employees were suspended last month after more than an hour of the radio’s exclusive interview with billionaire businessman Guo […]
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How John Brennan’s CIA Became a Big Consumer of Unmasked Intelligence on Americans…
As former CIA Director John Brennan faces Congress anew on Tuesday, there is growing evidence the agency he oversaw has become one of the largest consumers of unmasked intelligence about Americans even though its charter prohibits it from spying on U.S. citizens. The CIA routinely searches data collected overseas on Americans by the National Security […]
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