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On May 23rd, The American intelligence agency NSA started the process of deleting the call records it has obtained from US telecom companies since 2015. The number is in hundreds of millions, according to NYTimes. NSA announced the move in a statement last week where it noted that “technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunications service providers” […]
The Intercept, the publication known for its groundbreaking reports, has come up with another revealing piece (via TechCrunch) about the National Security Agency. The report describes 8 AT&T data facilities that serve as hubs for NSA’s spying activities. The eight facilities are located in major US cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, LA, New York City, San […]
The new Annual Statistical Transparency report published by the Office of The Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) gives the highlights of NSA’s surveillance campaigns. In 2017, the agency sourced the metadata of over 530 million call records related to targets. That’s more than three times than the data collected in 2016, i.e., 151 million. The metadata […]
Short Bytes: IXmaps is an online interactive map that can be used to see if your web traffic is being spied on by the NSA. IXmaps is created with the help of OpenMedia and some Canadian organizations. This tool finds out if the path taken by your data involves some NSA listening port. You might be knowing […]
Short Bytes: The NSA will end its bulk phone spying program by 11:59 p.m. EST Saturday (4:59 a.m. GMT Sunday). This step is being taken as back in June Congress passed the USA Freedom Act and banned the controversial metadata collection. Thanks to the leaks by Edward Snowden and constant demands being made by the activists, the […]
Short Bytes: The European Union has many a times been apprehensive of the US-based tech companies, especially on the matters of privacy and data security. Now, Germany has raised concerns over the illegal data transfers from the EU to the US by the global companies like Facebook and Google. The rift between the European and American […]
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 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 […]
According to the recently leaked document from NSA by the Guardian, the U.S government is spying each and every conversation done by the American over the internet. Whether, it is via Google, Facebook or any other major brand. Furthermore, U.S government is also receiving phone records of millions of customer using Verizon. The program through […]