Citizenfour, the acclaimed Edward Snowden-centric documentary (and recent Academy Award winner), is now available to watch online for free at Thought Maybe.…
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Gemalto downplays impact of NSA and GCHQ hacks on its SIM cards
Dutch digital security firm Gemalto, which is the world’s biggest manufacturer of SIM cards, has reported back on internal investigations triggered by…
Read MoreSnowden: “I should have leaked sooner”
A day after Citizenfour, a documentary in which he stars, won an Academy Award, Edward Snowden along with director Laura Poitras and…
Read MoreUpdated: Mozilla, Deutsche Telekom won’t release “privacy phone”
Update: Mozilla has told TechCrunch that the WSJ’s framing of this as a partnership around an actual phone was inaccurate. In other…
Read MoreCourt backs NSA on internet spying as Obama ducks call for reform
It’s been a lousy week so far for opponents of U.S. spy tactics: a federal judge shut down a long-running challenge to the NSA’s mass collection…
Read MoreUK access to NSA mass surveillance data was illegal, court rules
The system through which U.K. spy agency GCHQ can access data from NSA mass surveillance programs was in violation of fundamental rights,…
Read MoreReport: US to grant foreigners limited NSA data deletion rights
The U.S. administration is set to make a few changes to the country’s mass surveillance practises, according to a New York Times…
Read MoreReport: China wants backdoors in imported tech, but only its own
Western companies are doing big business in China, but storm clouds lie on the horizon. According to a New York Times report,…
Read MoreLevitation program tracked file-sharing sites, Snowden doc shows
The Canadian spy agency CSE monitors activity across over 100 free file upload sites, a newly-revealed PowerPoint document from NSA whistleblower Edward…
Read MoreReport: No real substitute for NSA’s bulk data collection
A new report from the National Research Council concludes that untargeted, or bulk, data collection remains probably the best method for fulfilling the National…
Read MoreTutanota releases iOS encrypted email app after notifying NSA
The German encrypted email service Tutanota has released its iOS app, weeks after its Android app came out. The delay in the…
Read MoreUK wants hot tech grads to do spy work before building startups
The British government is considering a program that would see the most promising tech graduates spend some time working for the GCHQ…
Read MoreHow the internet’s engineers are fighting mass surveillance
The Internet Engineering Task Force has played down suggestions that the NSA is weakening the security of the internet through its standardization…
Read MoreWhat you need to know about the NSA document dump
While many Americans were cozying up on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, the National Security Agency was busy posting dozens of quarterly…
Read MoreGerman court denies Snowden visit bid
The German high court has denied an attempt by two of the country’s opposition parties to have NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden visit…
Read MoreUK cable-tapping programs are legal, spy court rules
The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a semi-secret court that deals with complaints over the authorities’ surveillance activities, has declared that the…
Read MoreNSA spies on carriers to break call encryption, report suggests
The NSA spies on the internal emails and documents of major mobile carriers and their industry body, the GSM Association, according to…
Read MoreTurns out that German intelligence agency can spy on some Germans
Germany’s equivalent to the NSA is able to spy on some German citizens thanks to a loophole in the country’s laws, a government…
Read MoreTypewriters (huh?) make a comeback in post-Snowden era
So, the typewriter, an icon of a bygone, pre-PC era, is making a comeback among some government workers and young people revisiting the analog tools of the past.…
Read MoreSurveillance-limiting USA Freedom Act fails to clear Senate
The flawed bill fell two votes short of what was needed, creating an odd situation where the bulk collection of communications records and other metadata can continue for now, but some of the underpinning legislation becomes likely to expire in mid-2015.…
Read MoreMicrosoft, Google & friends urge passage of USA Freedom Act
Nine big tech powers really want the USA Freedom Act -- which would curtail some of the government's data gathering activities -- to pass and are pushing the Senate to get that done.…
Read MoreFBI moves to expand computer search powers, complicating Microsoft’s push to protect overseas cloud customers
Search warrants issued by an American judge only cover U.S. territory. The Justice Department wants to change that -- even as Microsoft fights in court to stop a search warrant from reaching servers in Ireland.…
Read MoreUS tech firms help terrorists, says new UK spy chief. Maybe, but they also help the rest of us.
Like the FBI across the Atlantic, the British spy agency GCHQ is annoyed at the increasing security of tech products and services. But really, it's the people who should decide whether this is a good or bad thing.…
Read MoreEU home affairs chief secretly worked with US to undermine new privacy laws, campaigners claim
The allegations are based on an email from early 2012, in which U.S. commerce officials say EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström was concerned about new European data protection proposals and kept them updated about timing and other details.…
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