On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff’s deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist’s report of human remains outside of town. They identified the … AT&T Is Spying on Americans for ProfitRead more
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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s “number one priority when we … Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web TrackingRead more
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Britain has passed the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’
The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called “terrifying” and “dangerous”. The new law, dubbed the “snoopers’ charter”, … Britain has passed the ‘most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy’Read more
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Silicon Valley and Police Create COINTELPRO for the Tech Age
The most widely-used social media platforms have collaborated with law enforcement to track Black Lives Matter activists, providing police agencies with data that is unavailable … Silicon Valley and Police Create COINTELPRO for the Tech AgeRead more
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Yahoo didn’t install an NSA email scanner
Ex-Yahoo employees have spoken anonymously to Motherboard about the news that Yahoo had built an “email scanner” for a US security agency, likely the FBI … Yahoo didn’t install an NSA email scannerRead more
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Spyware routinely installed by UK schools
Over two-thirds of schools installed special software on school computers to spy on their pupils, responses to Freedom of Information requests have revealed. According to … Spyware routinely installed by UK schoolsRead more
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AT&T’s Secret Program to Spy on Americans for Profit
New details have emerged about how AT&T has been spying on Americans for profit. The Daily Beast is reporting AT&T is keeping private call records … AT&T’s Secret Program to Spy on Americans for ProfitRead more
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How the NSA Used the Iraq War to Build its Surveillance Apparatus
Newly released internal NSA missives from the early days of the Iraq war show how quickly the agency’s priorities shifted from providing wartime intelligence to … How the NSA Used the Iraq War to Build its Surveillance ApparatusRead more
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Every Move You Make
This summer, at 1:51 p.m. on Saturday, June 11, an unearthly roar shattered the afternoon quiet along the Florida coast. On Cape Canaveral, liquid fuel … Every Move You MakeRead more
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British Companies Are Selling Advanced Spy Tech to Authoritarian Regimes
Since early 2015, over a dozen UK companies have been granted licenses to export powerful telecommunications interception technology to countries around the world, Motherboard has … British Companies Are Selling Advanced Spy Tech to Authoritarian RegimesRead more