Vizio, one of the world’s biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people watching them. According to a complaint filed Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission, Internet-connected TVs from Vizio contained ACR—short for […]
Amazon Refuses To Hand Over Privacy Data To Feds…
The U.S. government completely forfeited its moral standing when it was revealed that agencies like the NSA spy on every aspect of day-to-day life. Or at least they try to. In 2016, there is one last bastion of privacy – what is said in the confines of one’s own home. And in 2016, the government […]
German Court Rules Snowden Must be Brought to Germany to Answer U.S. Spying Questions…
The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has ruled that the German government must make plans to bring former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to Berlin to answer questions from a parliamentary committee looking into US intelligence agency spying…
iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says…
Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification…
UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data for Decade…
British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade…
How American Companies Enable NSA Surveillance…Like, YAHOO!!!!…
Without the cooperation of American companies — both voluntary and compelled — the National Security Agency’s system of mass surveillance simply would not have been possible…
@Snowden – “What is #Allo? A Google app that records every message you ever send and makes it available to police upon request”…
The version of Allo rolling out today will store all non-incognito messages by default — a clear change from Google’s earlier statements that the app would only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form…
Government Hackers Caught Using Unprecedented iPhone Spy Tool on Human Rights Activists…
On the morning of August 10, Ahmed Mansoor, a 46-year-old human rights activist from the United Arab Emirates, received a strange text message from a number he did not recognize…
REPORT: The Million Dollar Dissident–NSO Group’s iPhone Zero-Days…
Court Says Microsoft Does Not Need To Respond To U.S. Warrant For Overseas Data…
The 2nd Circuit appeals court today reversed that ruling and properly noted that US government warrants do not apply to overseas data. This is a hugely important case…