The FBI and others will be able to take advantage of the removal of jurisdictional limits to search computers anywhere in the world using a single warrant issued by a magistrate judge. It will also be granted the same power for use in the disruption of botnets — in essence, searches/seizures of devices owned by […]
Oh Goodie: FBI to Gain Expanded Powers as Senate Effort to Block Fails…
A last-ditch effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the U.S. government’s hacking powers failed Wednesday, despite concerns the changes would jeopardize the privacy rights of innocent Americans…
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance…
The UK is due to pass its controversial new surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act…The Act formally legalizes a number of mass surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013… introduces a new power which will force internet service providers to store browsing data on all customers for 12 months…
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…
The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight…
They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City. It would have no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels, and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of […]
The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance…
It was a powerful piece of technology created for an important customer. The Medusa system, named after the mythical Greek monster with snakes instead of hair, had one main purpose: to vacuum up vast quantities of internet data at an astonishing speed…
Electronic Surveillance Requests Approved by DC Federal Courts Up 500% Since 2011…
Mostly secret law enforcement requests to federal courts in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia for use of electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have increased fivefold in the last five years…
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…
Yahoo Reports On Yahoo Secretly Scanning All Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 52
- 53
- 54
- 55
- 56
- …
- 58
- Next Page »