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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 […]
German Humanist Union, an independent civil liberties organization, has awarded Snowdenwith the Fritz Bauer Prize for exposing NSA’s controversial surveillance practices. The prize named after Fritz Bauer, a German prosecutor and judge who played an important role in Oswiecim trials of former SS officers, was instituted in 1968 and is given to people who excel […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that company is introducing an anonymous login feature, which allows users to access applications for smartphones and tablets without sharing their personal information stored in social network. The announcement was made during F8 developer conference according to which Anonymous Login is a sign in mechanism to log into apps without […]
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 […]
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, […]
Kevin Barrera was murdered at age 14 in 2009 in Richmond, California. In 2013, however, his death took on new proportions after his father, Jose Barreras, found the image of the crime scene in Google Maps. In the image, which is still available on Google Maps, you can see a police car, a body and, by all […]
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. […]
How to visit ban websites? this is a question that comes to mind whenever people realize that their favorite website is banned in the university, college, office or even at home sometimes. These websites may be banned for several reasons, sometimes to avoid people from wasting their time rather than working or studying or perhaps […]