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If you are not comfortable with the surveillance cameras, an identity replacement technology that is basically a Surveillance identity prosthetic provides you a new face. If you find all people around you having the same face like you saw the agents in Matrix 3, then Leo Selvaggio is the one to thank. He has designed a […]
Previously we told you about ProtonMail, an email service said to be totally surveillance proof. The developers of this service are going to release a mobile app soon and this follows a very successful Indiegogo campaign which is known to raise around 6 times of the initial goal of $100,000. This is an extremely successful […]
We know how drones are used for surveillance, target killings or in some cases to save human lives, but now a South African company known as Desert Wolf told the BBC they have received orders for their riot drone‘’Shunk’’. The drone fires pepper spray bullets at crowds, that can tackle crowds or protesters “without endangering the lives […]
Oliver Stone is known for depicting famous [rather infamous] real life stories on screen. And the list of his highly successful real-life depictions includes the Scarface, Kennedy assassination, the Watergate break-in, the Vietnam conflict, and the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror.’ The latest to be included in the list is the adaptation of ‘The Snowden […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) collects millions of facial images transmitted through the Internet and uses them for various facial recognition programs, according to classified documents leaked by Snowden. A recent article published in The New York Times by James Risen and Laura Poitras, the journalist who along with Glen Greenwald was handed over the […]
Brazil recently awarded a USD 4.5 billion deal for new fighter jets to a Swedish company on Wednesday. The deal, which was negotiated over three presidencies, was awarded to Saab, a Sweden-based organization offering products and services ranging from military defense to civil security. There were three contenders to the deal—Chicago-based Boeing and French Dassault […]
WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging services, scaled its highest point recently when it handled more than 64 billion messages in 24 hour period in a day, just weeks after its acquisition by Facebook for a whopping USD 19 billion, according to media reports. Last year, the daily message traffic of the application […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Internet is a CIA project and Russians should be careful while making Google searches. While speaking to a group of emerging journalists during a television event on Thursdays, Putin said that Internet was developed by the Central Intelligence Agency as a ‘’special project’’, reported by AFP News. While […]
A new feature introduced by Facebook to allow meeting the Facebook friends in real time when they are actually close by has had mixed reactions from its users. Nearby Friends, an optional mobile application, taps steady stream of location information and makes it possible for friends to track each other in real time and meet […]
Google’s latest update on Monday only highlights how apathetic they are to the privacy of their users and consider every bit of data transmitted through their services (Google plus, YouTube) as part of ‘fair game.’ The ‘fair game’ constitutes, “When you upload, or otherwise submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, […]
Both were key players in exposing the US government surveillance program that has outraged the national and international communities alike. Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden Ex-NSA tech Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras were awarded the 2014 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named after the Vietnam veteran Ron Ridenhour, a whistleblower and an investigative journalist, who […]
A human right organization has challenged the setting up of the FinFisher surveillance technology in Pakistan, according to media reports. Bytes For All (B4A), a human rights organization with a focus on Information and Communication technologies, has alleged that FinFisher software endangers privacy rights of Pakistanis. FinFisher, produced by the UK-based Gamma International, is a […]
One of the top intelligence officials in the Obama administration has confirmed National Security Agency (NSA) spying on the Americans’ communication using a loophole in the surveillance law. James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), confirmed the use of legal authorities to search actual communications of Americans without a warrant. There have been queries, using […]
Mobile applications collecting personal data of users in one form or the other is no more a stunning news. The Snowden documents only confirmed that smartphone applications such as Angry Birds had been colluding with the NSA in handing over the personal information about their users. HackRead reported earlier how the leaky applications of mobile […]
In an exclusive interview with NBC, the ex-American president Mr. Jimmy Carter expressed his views on the NSA; according to which Mr. Carter believes that he is being spied by the NSA. During the interview when he was asked about NSA surveillance, he replied: When I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or […]
The list of secrets held by the NSA is a never-ending one. Latest in the list includes its refusal to disclose the amount of water it pumps in its new data center at Bluffdale, Utah. An aerial view of the NSA’s Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. According to a letter sent to officials in Utah. […]
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower made his longest public appearance at the SXSW conference since his surveillance act. This was done through a video conference made via Google hangouts Snowden but in this Snowden’s actual location was kept hidden through a barrage of 7 proxies. Snowden in this event was basically addressing the programmers and […]
A tech-firm has amazed the world with its proof-of-demonstration of a remote-controlled “stun copter” that can deliver 80,000 volts of electricity to a hapless target, at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Austin, Texas, giving an idea how terrifying the consumer grade personal drones can be. The drone, an invention of the Chaotic Moon Studios—an […]
It is not just the NSA, the infamous snooping authority of the US, that has been collecting data of millions of Americans, many other private companies do the same, according to reports published from theObama administration. On Facebook, there are some 350 million photos uploaded and shared every day.“On YouTube, 100 hours of video is […]
A terror suspect has challenged the constitutionality of the NSA’s surveillance program alleging that the federal government has gone too far on spying, according to a court document filed on Wednesday. Jamshid Muhtorov’s file photo Jamshid Muhtorov, an Uzbek terror suspect from Colorado, in a motion filed in the Denver court with the help of […]
According to the latest revelations based on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and the whistleblower, smartphone applications such as GoogleMaps, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and games like Angry Birds are the biggest sources of information for NSA. Intelligence agencies use these apps to track locations, access address books, buddy lists, phone […]