Politicians in several countries have proposed restrictions in privacy and liberty in the form of increased surveillance powers following the Paris terror attacks. This is not just wrong and harmful,…
It seems Google does record audio from microphones all the time, despite attempts to play down the situation. The "hotword" searching - when you initiate a search by saying "Ok…
It was too conspiratorial to be true - links showing stories on the United States Drone Assassination Program weren't showing up on Twitter if you were accessing Twitter from United…
Once again, an NSA wiretapping capability has been discovered - or made credible, in any case - that highlights the completely incompatible two faces of the U.S. National Security Agency.…
This week, the European Court of Justice - the highest court in the European Union - declared that US companies may not transmit private sensitive personal data out of Europe…
The GCHQ is profiling every single Internet user, according to new Snowden files released by The Intercept. At this point, the story should no longer be that surveillance agencies are…
The United States government keeps pushing for their mythical and imaginary "golden key" to people's correspondence - a key that would unlock all encryption, and they keep demanding this from…
The European Parliament just adopted a report that goes way further in the right direction than anything seen before from any legislative body. It condemns mass surveillance in the strongest…
A Norwegian district court has seen it fit to order censorship of The Pirate Bay and other sites that are sometimes used to violate the entertainment distribution monopoly we know…
In the wake of the Ashley Madison privacy breach, people have killed themselves. This is a breach that should be no different from a breach of any other safety promise…