- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 21st, 2015
There's a Secret Catalog of Surveillance Tech for US Law Enforcement Agencies
NSA and CIA are the providers of most surveillance devices
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 19th, 2015
Sneaky US Government Passes CISA Bill, Hidden Inside Generic Budget Bill
President Obama signs the CISA bill into law
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 5th, 2015
Kazakhstan Will Require All Citizens to Install a Backdoor on Their Devices
The backdoor must be installed starting with January 1, 2016
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 2nd, 2015
Google Tracks Students and School Kids via Chromebooks
Google ignores Student Privacy Pledge, ships Chromebooks with tracking features turned on by default
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 1st, 2015
Judge Allows a National Security Letter to Be Revealed for the First Time
A look at one of the FBI's secret weapons against terrorism
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 30th, 2015
Canadian Bank Has Clause in Contracts That Lets Them Collect Browsing Histories
Bank says it never actually collected any browser histories
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 30th, 2015
Walmart Hired Security Firm to Spy on Workers' Union Bloomberg
State investigation reveals that defense contractor helped Walmart spy on one of its workers' unions
- Web Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 20th, 2015
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Are the Best at Protecting User Rights
Non-US service providers don't care about user rights
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 16th, 2015
Governments Use ISIS Paris Attacks to Push Their Online Surveillance Laws
The perfect time to pass an over-reaching surveillance law
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 30th, 2015
UK Wants to Allow Warrantless Police Searches of Internet History
Phone calls metadata to be included as well
- Spyware Threats
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 27th, 2015
WhatsApp Collects Information on Phone Numbers, Call Duration
Data is sent for storage on WhatsApp's servers
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 26th, 2015
British Government Is Recording All Internet Traffic, New Edward Snowden Files Reveal
Phone calls, browsing history, online radio, forum posts, adult websites, IM chats, and everything else
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 19th, 2015
AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History to Online Advertisers
Only non-personal details will be sold, AVG claims
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 3rd, 2015
The Internet Doesn't Discriminate, Collects Huge Amounts of Data on Your Kids as Well
67% of children apps and websites collect data on kids
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 31st, 2015
Tor Project Plans to Put Exit Nodes in Public Libraries to Avoid Legal Takedowns
Tor exit nodes in libraries are actually a very smart move
- Online Surveillance
- By Bogdan Popa
- February 19th, 2015
Google Opposes Law That Would Allow the US to Spy on Any Computer in the World
This could affect everyone who uses the Internet, it says
- Online Surveillance
- By Bogdan Popa
- December 30th, 2014
France Passes Online Surveillance Law That Makes It Legal to Spy on Internet Users
The French government can now collect data about users