A trove of documents handed over to an investigative news agency by whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed that keeping track of bitcoin transactions and users … Tracking bitcoin was NSA’s ‘#1 priority’Read more
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UIDAI CEO Gave The Supreme Court His Aadhaar Logs, Now Twitter Knows Everything About Him
Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency that implements India’s controversial Aadhaar project, shared his authentication logs with … UIDAI CEO Gave The Supreme Court His Aadhaar Logs, Now Twitter Knows Everything About HimRead more
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Grabbing of 50 million Facebook profiles
Part one: The Whistleblower 00:16 – In an era of big data and fake news political 00:19 leaders are changing and so too the way … Grabbing of 50 million Facebook profilesRead more
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You Should Be Four Times As Angry At The Broadband Industry
To be very clear, Facebook is well deserving of the mammoth backlash the company is experiencing in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations. Especially … You Should Be Four Times As Angry At The Broadband IndustryRead more
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The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed
It is one of the world’s most powerful alliances. And yet most people have probably never heard of it, because its existence is a closely … The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew ExistedRead more
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How a US firm Apriori is creating a database of Indians using publicly available datasets
A data aggregation startup in the suburbs of Washington DC is aiming to be a specialist provider of demographic data on Indians for commercial use. … How a US firm Apriori is creating a database of Indians using publicly available datasetsRead more
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Finding Your Voice
At the height of the Cold War, during the winter of 1980, FBI agents recorded a phone call in which a man arranged a secret … Finding Your VoiceRead more
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Court of Appeal rules Government surveillance regime IS unlawful
The Government is breaking the law by collecting the nation’s internet activity and phone records and letting public bodies grant themselves access to these personal … Court of Appeal rules Government surveillance regime IS unlawfulRead more
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Godfather of Mass Surveillance
Veteran CIA officer Cleveland Cram was nearing the end of his career in 1978, when his superiors in the agency’s directorate of operations handed him … Godfather of Mass SurveillanceRead more
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Cars Suck Up Data About You. Where Does It All Go?
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to — … Cars Suck Up Data About You. Where Does It All Go?Read more