While most eyes are focused on the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, three major events prove how widespread, and dangerous, mass surveillance has become in the west.
This week, Canadians received a shock to the system when a spate of news items revealed how police and spy agencies flout the law and moral conventions to spy on citizens and journalists, in some cases dating back for many years.
Dystopian corporate surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer "always-on" devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers follow us around the web to create personalized user profiles so they can (maybe)
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The Stealth Cell Tower might look like a printer on the surface. But the device, developed by Berlin-based critical engineer Julian Oliver, can track phones and other signals, similar to police surveillance tools.
As with most shadow government legislation, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is packed with hidden surveillance allowances. CISA was quietly passed to allow government to demand that private companies hand over personal information to them a
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma proposed that the nation's top security bureau use big data to prevent crime, endorsing the country's nascent effort to build unparalleled online surveillance of its billion-plus people.
The futuristic technology could be used to monitor behaviours including leaving suspicious packages, drivers distracted by mobile devices, and intruders trying to access secure locations.
Project Veritas Action has released the sixth video in a multi-part series that is sending shockwaves through the DNC and the Clinton campaign. In a new video released by Project Veritas Action, a PVA journalist exposes how his pay for play with Robe
Newly discovered emails from Hillary Clinton's private server were found after the F.B.I. seized electronic devices once shared by Anthony D. Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton, federal law enforcement officials
AT&T has been caught red-handed several times since 2003, then repeatedly slapped by Congress and courts, only to accelerate its illegal and unconstitutional spy program on U.S. citizens. This is the mind and style of Technocracy: hating all restrain
For nearly two decades, British spies unlawfully maintained vast troves of people's private data without adequate safeguards against misuse, a tribunal of senior judges has ruled.
In the six weeks since federal agents raided a suburban Maryland home and arrested Harold T. Martin III on suspicion of stealing classified information from the National Security Agency, another organization has quietly prepared to face the fallout:
In the six weeks since federal agents raided a suburban Maryland home and arrested Harold T. Martin III on suspicion of stealing classified information from the National Security Agency, another organization has quietly prepared to face the fallout:
U.S. early warning satellites and sensors designed primarily to detect the launch of missiles carrying nuclear warheads are providing daily streams of intelligence on Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria, according to defense officials.
According to the source, Twitter maintains a 'whitelist' of favoured Twitter accounts and a 'blacklist' of unfavoured accounts. Accounts on the whitelist are prioritised in search results, even if they're not the most popular among users.
Scientists and engineers can spend years of their lives in painstaking trial-and-error experimentation to develop a breakthrough new technology…and the military-industrial complex can find a way to militarize it in mere hours. (Assuming that the re
James Corbett (The Corbett Report) provides World News Update; topics range from the political circus, the surveillance state, Deutsche Bank and what this all means, Special Drawing Rights, 'U.N. takeover of the internet', etc...
There's no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. But after Tuesday's bombshell report by Reuters, indicating the enormous, faltering web company designed a bespoke email-wiretap service for the U.S. government, we now know that a Yahoo
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Federal agents have persuaded police officers to scan license plates to gather information about gun-show customers, government emails show, raising questions about how officials monitor constitutionally protected activity.
This article reinforces the point that if police can and do monitor social media to determine minute activities of social media participants, then political opponents can do the same thing to their 'enemies'. Basically, anything you post online w
Unless you want law enforcement to be able to trawl all your communications, don't -- under any circumstances -- use Google's newest messaging app, Allo, Edward Snowden just warned.
Swiss voters are casting ballots to decide whether to grant new state powers to track internet and postal activity, as well as phone taps. Questions on pension reforms and environmental policies are also on the ballot.
The search giant's new WhatsApp competitor combines messaging with a digital assistant to allow you to chat like never before--but those who care about their privacy and mass surveillance should steer clear of the app, Edward Snowden said in a serie
US film director Oliver Stone on Thursday accused President Barack Obama's administration of implementing a surveillance system worse than that of the feared Stasi secret police in East Germany.
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