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…
The FBI Has Collected 430,000 Iris Scans in a So-Called ‘Pilot Program’…
Since [the FBI] its launch in 2013, the program has stockpiled iris scans from 434,000 arrestees…
154M Records Exposed, Including Gun Ownership, FB Profiles and More…
A database with 154 million US voter registration records has been leaking information on a dizzying array of intimate [private] details, including gun ownership…