- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 28th, 2016
Apple Shares Some iMessage Metadata with Law Enforcement
New documents reveal what Apple shares with law enforcement
- Linux
- By Silviu Stahie
- November 6th, 2015
New Calibre Release Has Fix for Amazon Metadata Download
Many fixes have been implemented in Calibre 2.43
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 19th, 2015
1Password Leaks Account Metadata, but Your Passwords Are Safe UPDATE
Issue affects older 1Password accounts where data is encrypted using the older Agile Keychain format
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 3rd, 2014
NSA Bulk Phone Record Collection Program Goes Under Court Scrutiny
The judges are looking into why the NSA collects all data
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- August 26th, 2014
In 2007, NSA Was Sharing over 850 Billion Metadata Records with Other Agencies
The number has probably skyrocketed since then, given the adoption rate of smartphones and it will continue to climb
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- August 13th, 2014
Old NSA Program Collecting Internet Metadata Was Shut Down After Agency Overcollected Data
Even though this program was shut down, the NSA was later allowed to take on a similar one with the same capabilities
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 21st, 2014
Dark Mail Protocol to Hide Metadata in Email Exchange
Email anonymity project still has some glitches to be fixed
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- June 28th, 2014
NSA Collects Millions of US Records, Targets Only 248 People
It's now clear that the NSA uselessly spies on everyone
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- May 8th, 2014
Freedom Act Clears House Judiciary Committee
The Freedom Act has made it through the first hurdle
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 28th, 2014
Supreme Court Will Rule About People's Right to Privacy in the Digital World
Should everyone's phones be open to warrantless searches after arrest?
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 23rd, 2014
NSA Releases File Explaining PRISM
The NSA is not really sharing new information about PRISM
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 7th, 2014
Snowden and Greenwald: Metadata Collecting, More Intrusive than Eavesdropping Reuters
During a conference, the two discussed the perils of the metadata collection programs
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 2nd, 2014
Clapper Admits NSA Performs Warrantless Searches Through Americans' Communications
Despite having some protection from the US Constitution, not even Americans are safe from NSA's all-seeing eye
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 27th, 2014
The NSA Wants to Hold Onto Metadata Records for Longer Because of All the Lawsuits
The government wants to give the NSA permission to hold data for longer than five years, despite protests
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 18th, 2014
Clapper: US Citizens Would Have Understood the Need for Metadata Program After 9/11
The DNI director also believes there would be no privacy vs. security discussion now
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 8th, 2014
NSA Collects About 30 Percent of US Phonecall Data
Officials mentioned that data collection was down
- Web Blog
- By Gabriela Vatu
- January 23rd, 2014
Snowden: There's No Justification to Keeping the Metadata Collection Program
The program is not efficient and it's been called illegal by several panels so far