British Spies Have Attacked Anonymous With DDoS

British Spies Have Attacked Anonymous With DDoS

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News suggest that the UK’s spy agency, GCHQ, launched a DDoS attack on the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.

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The NSA Has Only Just Gotten a Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer

The NSA Has Only Just Gotten a Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer

The NSA has named its first-ever primary adviser to its director for civil liberties and privacy protection—perhaps a little later than you may have hoped for.

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NSA received demonstration on real-time Internet spying from UK’s GCHQ

NBC News has released some new information from documents it acquired via Edward Snowden, the media company has announced. According to the documents, which NBC has largely made available on … Continue reading

Tech Companies Can Now Reveal More About What They Tell The Government

Tech Companies Can Now Reveal More About What They Tell The Government

The government has reached a deal with tech companies on how much they can tell you about the data they are collecting from you.

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Angry Birds and other “leaky” apps used by NSA to grab user data

The NSA likes it when mobile users download so-called “leaky” apps, a new report by The Guardian reveals. The reason? These apps, with Angry Birds being specified among them, allows … Continue reading

Snowden talks government, privacy, and having no regrets during live Q&A

Since leaking a myriad of documents on NSA and government surveillance and taking roost in Russia, Edward Snowden has kept a low profile — until today. Via Twitter, the former … Continue reading

High-Level Independent Review: NSA Phone Spying Is Illegal, Should End

High-Level Independent Review: NSA Phone Spying Is Illegal, Should End

An independent review, by a board made up of senior ex-government members, has concluded that the National Security Agency’s long-running program to collect phone records is illegal and should stop.

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Privacy watchdog finds NSA program ineffective and illegal

Just a few days after Obama’s awaited, and disappointing to some, speech about the NSA’s program, an independent federal body came out with its own rather scathing analysis of the … Continue reading

Obama NSA reform plan revealed

President Obama has defended the NSA’s spying actions, arguing that the continuing pace of technological advancement means surveillance is essential, though revealing a “series of concrete and substantial reforms” he … Continue reading

Reuters: Obama to Stop NSA Spying on Phone Records Without Legal Reason

Reuters: Obama to Stop NSA Spying on Phone Records Without Legal Reason

We already knew that Obama was set to announce some major NSA reforms today, and now Reuters is reporting ahead of the event that he will prevent the Agency from looking at phone records without a legal reason.

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