Cops could use your iPhone fingerprint against you
Will you trade your right to privacy for the convenience of unlocking your phone with a fingerprint? Apple is hoping people will and the police might be happy about …
Category: Privacy & Spying
Box aims for NSA-resistant security with customers holding the keys
A way for us to protect our personal data on the web from our government? [blockquote style="2"]After eight years of existence, file sharing service Box has built a huge …
NSA spying techniques include masquerading as Google
Globo News in Brazil reported this week that the NSA spied on Petrobras, a large Brazilian oil firm. The report cited classified data leaked by former CIA worker Edward …
FISA court judge orders declassification of NSA spying activity
As the NSA comes under increasing scrutiny, Judge Dennis Saylor of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ordered the US government to declassify documents pertaining to the NSA's illegitimate …
How the NSA fools staff into unconstitutional activites
So how would an agency so large as the NSA that employs so many Americans be able to keep so many from whistleblowing? Why haven't we seen more Eric …
NSA shares Americans’ private data with Israel
As if collecting private information on US citizens isn't unconstitutional enough, the NSA sends email and phone call communication data to Israel. [blockquote style="2"]September 11, 2013 Source: The Guardian …
Google Street View images may draw lawsuits
Google Inc. heard today that a federal appeals court decided the company can be held liable for violating federal wiretap laws between 2007-2010 when its Street View vehicles collected …
Be careful what medical details you share with Uncle Sam
As Obamacare takes effect, be aware that doctors are being turned into government agents. "They’re pressured financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary and violate their Hippocratic …
Facebook, Yahoo, join Google and Microsoft request to reveal NSA data requests
Facebook and Yahoo have added their petitions to those already under consideration by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court. The four tech data giants want legal permission to …
NSA routinely disregards rules
The NSA has routinely ignored rules, broken laws, trampled human rights, and just generally won't take 'no' for an answer. The whole 'Clipper Chip' (pictured) debate in the 1990s …
