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The US government’s extensive dragnet across the country keeping track of almost everything that travels across the internet and following every single phone call has not helped much in preventing terrorist attacks, according to a report released by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit policy group. The group analyzed 225 terrorism cases in the […]
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), had alleged through his leaked documents that the NSA along with its British counterpart GCHQ monitored the email traffic of Ehud Olmert in last days of his tenure; others being intercepted were Ehud Barak and the Hebrew University’s Institute of Physics—a renowned center […]
Earlier we reported that Facebook will send your conversation data to TV networks and how Facebook stores everything you type on the social network even if the message is not published. Now a lawsuit has been filed by Michael Hurley and Plaintiffs Matthew Campbell in California district court which claims that Facebook reads, stores and shares user’s personal messages from their inbox […]
TAO, the arm of the US National Security Agency (NSA), is embroiled in penetrating the security structures of Apple iPhone; and this time it is alleged that the manufacturer colluded with the intelligence agency. It has been reported that the NSA’s DROPOUT JEEP program could access voicemail, contact lists, text messages, files, location and could […]
It seems as if those business which bowed down in front of NSA are now facing a backlash. That’s what we can see from several tech giants and business institutions who cooperated with the American National Security Agency (NSA) for its spying and surveillance project PRISM. These companies are now loosing billions of dollars and most […]
A leaked two-page pamphlet for NSA employees reveals the organization instructed each employee on some key “talking points” to bring up in conversations with friends and family over thanksgiving to rebut many common opinions following Snowden’s leaks. A PDF copy containing a 2 page memo has been obtained by Firedoglake, and the memo contains talking […]
If you think its just the National Security Agency (NSA) that pokes its nose in your privacy then you are wrong. American Intelligence Agency CIA is following NSA’s footsteps by collecting information from money-transfer companies especially Western Union, building a database of international money transfer data. CIA collects such information under the shadow of same provision of […]
We have always heard about drones killing people in Afghanistan and Pakistan or most of the times used for surveillance purposes. But now there is a drone that can actually save lives. Iranian engineers at RTS Lab in Tehran have successfully tested their first ever Pars Rescue Robot Drone with amazing ability to quickly locate drowning […]
We are well familiar with the NSA‘s spying over its own citizens and all over the globe but can the government go to a limit where you can’t even ‘poo’ with freedom eh? Recently, I have found three images circulating over the internet talking about government of the United States spying on its citizens in the public toilets. […]
Brazilian authorities have accused Google of spying over their country’s streets. According to the authorities, Google since the launch of it’s street view application have gathered a large quantity of data that can be used for spying. This is not the first time Google has been reported for such an act recently EU authorities too […]
The official website of National Security Agency (NSA) has been offline for last 30 minutes for unknown reason. It can be a DDoS attack or simply a maintenance issue, but for now its down and showing offline message. A screenshot taken from a website that shows domain up and down time shows that NSA site is […]
Diane Feinstein who is member of the senate committee of US and the lawmaker has said that she supports NSA and its surveillance programs. The agency has faced many allegations after Edward Snowden has released a lot of documents that show that NSA has been spying on the telephonic data of millions of US citizens. […]
A new declassified document of NSA reveals that the agency spied communications of Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald and MLK. During the midst of the protest against the Vietnam War, NSA has been doing some spying activities. Some classified documents of NSA have been declassified as they were revealed this Wednesday show that the NSA officials […]
Among the list of those countries which are considered a top target by the NSA‘s surveillance program, India has been up there in that list for collecting internet and telephone data. The list of those countries which are being spied by the NSA under their surveillance program, India is in the fifth place as a […]
A recent report given by the Daily Mail has revealed that due to the privacy issues, Facebook users are leaving the social platform at an alarming rate. A research report has revealed that around 11 million users have left Facebook and this figure comprises 9 million from the US and around 2 million from Britain. […]
A Us solider by the name of Bradley Manning who is known to have handed over thousands of confidential government documents to WikiLeaks is now facing a sentence to spend his remaining life behind bars. He faces the sentence despite the fact that he was found non-guilty in the accusation of helping out Al-Qaeda in […]
A self-proclaimed patriot and shadowy hacker has recently launched several cyber-attacks against Ecuador and has also made the statement that such attacks will be conducted against any nation whosoever seeks of granting asylum to Edward Snowden who is the former contractor of National Security Agency. th3J35t3r” (the Jester) is what the hacker calls himself and has […]
A new secret batch has been published by guardian which shows how NSA and FISA court documents with details regarding how the Government had been gaining access to the email accounts of the American people. The documents lays stress on the problems that rests with imposing limitation on the surveillance program of NSA. This new […]
A recently published report in USA has outlined the route it takes for PRISM to get hold of the data from different tech giants. According to the report, PRISM uses nearly all the tech giants for leaking private data of the people in U.S. and outside it. Furthermore, it says Facebook was found to be […]
The drones which fly at the height of 150 yards will be utilized at the graffiti “hotspots” such as the big German cities of Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig and Hamburg confirmed by the spokesman for Deutsche Bahn. The latest indication of the rising civilian market for remote controlled aerial reconnaissance is the use of drones. As […]
The federal government of Brazil may indeed have access to private data that citizens may have provided to any private company. More than that, a state agency may get information that was cleared by another entity in the state with a different purpose. The findings are from a law professor Bruno Magrani, FGV-RJ. He is […]