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Americans Taking Action After NSA Surveillance
More than a third of Americans who are aware of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations have taken at least one step to protect their information.
AVG Calls For New IoT Legislation To Protect Children
The antivirus company wants laws to be drawn up that place stiffer controls over data that is collected covertly from devices being used by children.
Berners-Lee Raises Fears Of Government And Corporate Web Control
Web founder repeats demand for an 'online bill of rights' to protect the privacy of surfers, and fend off censorship.
Brodie Notes Version Of Safe Harbour Dispute
The legal wrangling between US corporations and the EU over the transfer of user data could potentially have huge consequences for individuals and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. Get caught up, if this is all news to you.
Danish Police Explains Why He Wants Government To Have Access To Our Data
Troels Oerting of the Danish police gave a fascinating opening keynote defending the right of the police to use surveillance over the Internet. It certainly ruffled some feathers in Brussels.
FBI Chief Expresses Google, Apple Privacy Concerns
As part of the backlash against the Snowden revelations more tech companies are offering encrypted messaging - which, it seems, 'Big Brother' is less than keen about.
GCHQ 'Scanned Entire Countries' Claim
The UK’s spy agency probed entire soveriegn nations' Internet infrastructures for server weaknesses so it could exploit vulnerable ports.
German And UK Internet Users More Likely To Quit Over Privacy Fears
Internet users from the UK and Germany are more likely to stop using or delete an account for an online service than those from the United States, according to research into data privacy concerns.
Government Increasing Requests To Facebook For User Data
Facebook has revealed that governments around the world are requesting more user data than ever before.
Information Will Never Be Completely Secure In Data Centres, So Encrypt it
Amlin CTO Steve O'Donnell knows enterprise storage inside-out, and he spilled the beans when he recently popped into ITProPortal Towers.
Internet Users Must Demand Both Security And Privacy
The conflict between privacy and security is a long-running one, often inflamed by global threats, but always present.
Israel Hacks John Kerry's Phone Calls
According to German weekly Der Spiegel, Israeli intelligence and at least one other secret service intercepted Kerry’s phone calls during a doomed, 9-month effort to broker a Middle East peace deal.
Kaspersky Labs Reverse Engineered By NSA And GCHQ
US and UK spy agencies have reverse-engineered anti-virus software with the goal of obtaining sensitive information from protected systems, The Intercept reported yesterday.
Moscow To Apple: Give Us iOS Source Code
Russia has asked Apple to hand over the source code for iOS, amid accusations that Apple's code has secret backdoors for US spies built-in.
NSA And GCHQ Infiltrate World’s Mobile Networks
GCHQ and the NSA tracked and spied on innocent employees and tapped into regulatory firms into order to break into the world’s most popular mobile phone networks.
Parliament Calls For Radical Overhaul Of “Embarrassing” Intelligence Agency Oversight Following Snowden Revelations
The parliamentary cross-party home affairs select committee wants a complete modernisation of various areas of UK surveillance and security oversight.
Snowden Now Saying No UK Mobile Safe From Prying Eyes
In a new BBC Panorama interview, Snowden claims that GCHQ ‘Smurf’ programs were used by the agency to invade targeted mobiles. Is he right? (And how would we know?)
Top Tech CEOs Choose Not Attend Obama's Cyber Security Summit
A cyber security and consumer protection summit led by US President Obama last month was universally snubbed by movers and shakers in the tech industry.
US Court Says NSA Can Resume Mass Surveillance
The National Security Agency, or NSA, has been allowed to temporarily resume the mass interception and collection of telephone records, according to Reuters.
US Sets Out To Improve User Privacy With New Bill
It seems Edward Snowden’s revelations are still rocking the American telecommunications service boat.
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