22-11-2022: Think before taking your computer to a repair shop.  [Ars Technica]  [Schneier]

21-11-2022: iPhone usage data isn't as anonymous as Apple claims.  [Engadget]

16-11-2022: DuckDuckGo gives Android users a way to block all trackers.  [Restore Privacy]  [Ars Technica]

24-10-2022: Your tracker blocker might be missing 90% of 3rd-party cookies.  [Restore Privacy]

01-09-2022: Police tried to keep mass surveillance app secret.  [Ars Technica]

02-08-2022: Surveillance of your car.  [Schneier]  [The Markup]

29-07-2022: How Tor is fighting – and beating – Russian censorship.  [Ars Technica]

19-07-2022: ACLU: DHS bought “shocking amount” of warrantless phone-tracking data.  [Ars Technica]

18-07-2022: Facebook encrypts links to prevent URL stripping.  [Schneier]  [ghacks]

15-07-2022: SFPD want real-time access to private surveillance cameras.  [Schneier]  [The Register]

14-05-2022: Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type – before you hit submit.  [Ars Technica]  [Schneier]  [Wired]

11-05-2022: EU wants to scan private messages by banning end-to-end encryption.  [Ars Technica]

01-02-2022: Privacy and networking:

• Part 1 - Why privacy?  [Packet Pushers]

• Part 2 - Legal and ethical privacy.  [Packet Pushers]

• Part 3 - Is an IP address protected information for privacy?  [Packet Pushers]

• Part 4 - Logging.  [Packet Pushers]

• Part 5 - The data lifecycle.  [Packet Pushers]

• Part 6 - Essential questions for privacy best practices.  [Packet Pushers]

• Part 7 - DNS queries and having a breach plan.  [Packet Pushers]

• Part 8 - IPv6 addresses and privacy.  [Packet Pushers]

02-02-2022: FBI confirms it tested NSO's spyware.  [The Verge]

02-02-2022: NSO tried to buy access to cell networks for “bags of cash".  [Ars Technica]

01-02-2022: Privacy and networking.  [Packet Pushers: part 1]

25-01-2022: Google abandons FLoC, introduces Topics API to replace tracking cookies.  [The Verge]  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]  [ExtremeTech]

25-01-2022: NSO chairman steps down after domestic spying allegations in Israel.  [The Verge]

18-01-2022: Israeli police used Pegasus spyware for domestic surveillance.  [Engadget]

12-11-2022: FBI considered Pegasus spyware in criminal investigations.  [Engadget]  [ExtremeTech]

11-11-2022: NSA over-surveillance.  [Schneier]  [BWBX]

31-10-2022: UK police fail to use facial recognition ethically and legally.  [Engadget]

03-10-2022: US and UK follow new rules on data sharing.  [The Register]

23-09-2022: SF police have powers to watch private surveillance cameras in real time.  [The Verge]

15-09-2022: US border police harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database.  [The Register]  [Engadget]  [Schneier]  [Washington Post]

18-07-2022: Records reveal the scale of Homeland Security's phone location data purchases.  [Engadget]

12-05-2022: SFPD using driverless cars as mobile surveillance cameras.  [Schneier]  [Motherboard]

03-05-2022: FBI searched potentially millions of Americans’ personal data without warrants.  [ExtremeTech]

04-03-2022: Secret Minnesota surveillance programme to track activists and journalists.  [ExtremeTech]

03-03-2022: Details of an NSA hacking operation.  [Schneier]  [Pangu Lab]  [Vice]

23-02-2022: Anatomy of suspected top-tier decade-hidden NSA backdoor  [The Register]

11-02-2022: CIA collecting bulk data on Americans without oversight.  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]  [The Register]  [Schneier]  [AoL]

20-01-2022: San Francisco police illegally spying on protesters.  [Schneier]

17-01-2022: UK government preparing PR blitz against end-to-end encryption.  [Engadget]  [Schneier]  [Rolling Stone]  [The Register]

• 21-01-2022: UK data watchdog criticises government anti-encryption campaign  [BBC News]

13-01-2022: Using foreign nationals to bypass US surveillance restrictions.  [Schneier]  [Vice]

10-01-2022: GCHQ was rebuked for ignoring spy law safeguards as pandemic hit Britain  [The Register]

10-12-2021: Apple's concessions in China.  [The Verge]

24-11-2021: Apple explains how it alerts targets of state-sponsored spyware attacks  [Engadget]

19-11-2021: DuckDuckGo announces app tracking prevention for Android  [ExtremeTech]  [The Verge]  [Ars Technica]

11-11-2021: Advice for personal digital security.  [Schneier]  [Ars Technica: part 1, part 2]

08-11-2021: The Israeli army is using facial recognition to track Palestinians.  [The Verge]

02-11-2021: On cellphone metadata.  [Schneier]  [Twitter]

01-11-2021: FTC report: ISPs are collecting everything you do online.  [Restore Privacy]  [PDF]

01-11-2021: The next privacy crisis.  [The Verge]

25-10-2021: FTC study confirms ISPs collect a scary amount of your personal data.  [ExtremeTech]  [FTC PDF]

25-10-2021: Analysis shows Amazon's Alexa collects more data than any other smart assistant.  [ExtremeTech]  [Reviews]

28-09-2021: Check what information your browser leaks.  [Schneier]  [ipLeak]  [DNS Leak Test]

18-09-2021: A new app helps Iranians hide messages in plain sight.  [Ars Technica]

18-09-2021: Google is getting caught in the anti-trust net.  [Ars Technica]

06-09-2021: Tracking people by their MAC addresses.  [Schneier]  [NRKbeta]

01-09-2021: Internet shutdowns by governments have ‘proliferated at a truly alarming pace’.  [The Verge]

25-08-2021: Surveillance of the Internet backbone.  [Schneier]  [Vice]

10-08-2021: Apple adds backdoor to iMessage and iCloud.  [Schneier]  [Apple]  [Washington Post]  [WSJ]  [Reuters]  [FT]  [EFF]

• 10-08-2021: Apple's new child protection features explained.  [The Verge]

• 10-08-2021: Why Apple's new child safety features are so controversial.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]

• 11-08-2021: Apple swears governments can’t co-opt its child abuse detection tools for surveillance.  [ExtremeTech]

• 13-08-2021: Even Apple’s own employees aren’t happy with new CSAM features.  [PocketNow]

• 13-08-2021: Apple acknowledges 'confusion' over child safety updates.  [Engadget]

  • 13-08-2021: Apple clarifies its sex abuse scans would look for 'images flagged in multiple countries'.  [Engadget]

• 13-08-2021: Apple’s controversial plan to try to curb child sexual abuse imagery.  [The Verge]

• 18-08-2021: Apple didn't engage with infosec community on CSAM scanning.  [The Register]

• 18-08-2021: Apple's NeuralHash algorithm has been reverse-engineered.  [Schneier]

• 20-08-2021: More on Apple's iPhone backdoor.  [Schneier]

• 23-08-2021: Apple has been CSAM scanning your iCloud mail since 2019.  [PocketNow]

• 04-09-2021: Amid backlash, Apple delays CSAM feature.  [Ars Technica]  [The Verge]  [PocketNow]

• 06-09-2021: EFF pushing Apple to drop its CSAM plans.  [PocketNow]

• 10-09-2021: Apple's CSAM plan has merit, and is totally legal. [ITP Techblog]

• 15-12-2021: Apple removes CSAM detection feature from webpage.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]  [ExtremeTech]

28-07-2021: De-anonymisation story.  [Schneier]  [Ars Technica]

• 16-06-2021: VPNs and trust.  [Schneier]

21-05-2021: Privacy concerns with Google’s FLoC.  [Restore Privacy]

19-05-2021: Apple censorship and surveillance in China.  [Schneier]  [NYT]

10-12-2021: Law enforcement access to chat data and metadata.  [Schneier]  [Property of the People]  [Rolling Stone]  [Reason]

12-11-2021: Booking.com reportedly hacked by a US intelligence agency.  [Ars Technica]

27-10-2021: How the FBI gets location information.  [Schneier]  [Vice]

09-09-2021: More detail on the Juniper hack and the NSA PRNG backdoor.  [Schneier]  [Bloomberg]

12-07-2021: Analysis of FBI's AN0M phone.  [Schneier]  [Vice]  [Ars Technica]

14-06-2021: The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good.  [The Register]

08-06-2021: FBI and AU police create backdoored chat app to catch crims.  [The Register]  [NZ Herald]  [Graham Cluley]  [The Verge]  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]  [Schneier]  [Graham Cluley]

05-06-2021: The FBI is trying to get IP addresses and phone numbers of people who read a USA Today article.  [The Verge]  [The Register]

18-05-2021: Washington DC dismantles its secretive facial recognition system.  [Engadget]

14-05-2021: The Pentagon is tracking US citizens without a warrant.  [Engadget]

21-04-2021: FBI used facial recognition to identify a Capitol rioter from his girlfriend’s Instagram posts.  [The Verge]

15-04-2021: The FBI is now securing networks without their owners' permission.  [Schneier]

22-01-2021: US DIA admits buying citizens' location data.  [The Verge]

20-12-2020: Kazakhstan spies on citizens’ HTTPS traffic.  [Ars Technica]

18-12-2020: China-based Zoom employee charged for secretly censoring Tiananmen Square anniversary events.  [The Verge]

16-10-2020: The end of end-to-end encryption.  [ITP Techblog]

25-08-2020: Identifying people by their browsing histories.  [Schneier]

12-08-2020: Why and where you should plant your identity flag.  [Krebs]

30-07-2020: What Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple have in common.  [The Verge]

27-07-2020: Images in eye reflections.  [Schneier]  [Futurism]

23-06-2020: Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR.  [The Register]

05-06-2020: Privacy threats in intimate relationships.  [Schneier, PDF]

13-04-2020: Contact tracing COVID-19 infections via smartphone apps.  [Schneier]

12-03-2020: Surveillance as a Service – whether you opted in or not.  [Packet Pushers]

12-02-2020: Companies that scrape your email.  [Schneier]  [Vice]

16-01-2020: Top Euro court: Cops, spies yelling 'national security' isn’t enough to force ISPs to hand over mass data.  [The Register]

20-11-2020: UK government describes role of the National Cyber Force (NCF).  [HEXUS]

28-10-2020: NSA refuses to disclose policy on backdooring commercial products.  [Schneier]  [Reuters]  [The Register]

26-10-2020: IMSI-catchers from Canada.  [Schneier]

23-10-2020: Report on police decryption capabilities.  [Schneier]  [Upturn]

21-10-2020: US police can unlock encrypted phones.  [The Register]

• 11-10-2020: Five Eyes, Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything.  [The Register]  [The Verge]  [Stuff]

10-10-2020: U.S. Cyber Command behind Trickbot tricks.  [Krebs]

28-09-2020: On executive order 12333.  [Schneier]  [SSRN]

11-09-2020: Snowden criticises Amazon for hiring former NSA boss.  [BBC News]

03-09-2020: NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden ruled unlawful.  [BBC News]  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]  [Engadget]

03-09-2020: Five Eyes start new club for competition regulators.  [The Register]

18-08-2020: Secret Service buys location data that would otherwise need a warrant.  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]

20-07-2020: The creepy company checking your fingerprints on Facebook for the US government.  [Graham Cluley]

19-07-2020: FBI reportedly uses a travel company's data for worldwide surveillance.  [Engadget]

16-07-2020: CIA runs secret cyberwar with little oversight with POTUS approval.  [The Register]

18-06-2020: FBI used Instagram, an Etsy review, and LinkedIn to identify a protestor accused of arson.  [The Verge]  [The Register]  [Schneier]  [PI]  [Ars Technica]

10-06-2020: Facebook paid for a tool to hack its own user, then handed it to the FBI.  [Engadget]

03-04-2020: Facebook tried to license NSO Group spyware to snoop on its own addicts.  [The Register]

12-03-2020: US Congress reauthorize spying law is flawed, open to abuse, and lacking in accountability.  [The Register]

10-03-2020: CIA dirty laundry aired.  [Schneier]

09-03-2020: Congress floats spectre of child exploitation to kill legal encryption.  [ExtremeTech]

26-02-2020: Declassified study demonstrates uselessness of NSA's phone metadata program.  [Schneier]  [NYT]  [The Register]

11-02-2020: Swiss Crypto AG was owned by the CIA.  [Schneier]  [Washington Post]  [ExtremeTech]  [BBC News]  [Engadget]

27-01-2020: NSA's 1993 Clipper chip still influences today's encryption debates.  [The Register]

25-01-2020: London police deploy controversial facial recognition cameras.  [ExtremeTech]

23-01-2020: Apple abandoned plans for encrypted iCloud backups after FBI complained.  [Schneier]  [Reuters]  [BBC News]  [The Verge]

22-01-2020: The need for a federal privacy law has never been greater.  [The Verge]

16-01-2020: Search warrant suggests FBI pulled data from a locked iPhone 11 Pro Max.  [Engadget]

14-01-2020: New police equipment to search mobile devices.  [BBC News]

10-01-2020: Police surveillance tools from Special Services Group.  [Schneier]  [Vice]  [Muckrock PDF]

07-01-2020: FBI asks Apple to unlock another shooter’s iPhone.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]  [Ars Technica]  [PocketNow]

• 13-01-2020: US attorney general asks Apple to unlock a shooter’s iPhones.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]  [BBC News]  [The Register]

• 16-01-2020: The broken record of breaking encryption skips again.  [Ars Technica]

01-01-2020: The quiet creep of facial recognition systems into New Zealand life.  [NZ Herald]

24-12-2019: ToTok is an Emirati spying tool.  [Schneier]  [NYT]  [The Register]  [Android Police]  [BBC News]  [Engadget]

• • 06-01-2020: Google lets alleged spying app ToTok back into Play Store.  [The Verge]  [Android Police]

20-12-2019: UK political party move from Whatsapp to Signal.  [The Register]

13-12-2019: EFF on the mechanics of corporate surveillance.  [Schneier]  [EFF]

20-11-2019: Iran has shut off its Internet.  [Schneier]  [Wired]  [NYT]  [The Register]  [BBC News]

• 26-11-2019: Iran letter raises prospect of 'white list' internet clampdown.  [BBC News]

07-11-2019: Eavesdropping on SMS messages inside telco networks.  [Schneier]  [FireEye]

05-11-2019: Obfuscation as a privacy tool.  [Schneier]  [MIT Press]

30-10-2019: WhatsApp suit says Israeli spyware maker exploited its app to target 1,400 users.  [Ars Technica]

26-10-2019: Comcast fights Google’s encrypted-DNS plan but promises not to spy on users.  [Ars Technica]

04-10-2019: Egyptian government caught tracking opponents and activists through phone apps.  [The Register]

01-10-2019: Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS.  [Ars Technica]

17-09-2019: Billions of license plate scans are part of a private surveillance database.  [Engadget]

10-09-2019: Facebook caught location tracking despite promising not to.  [The Register]

06-09-2019: The Verge guide to privacy and security.  [The Verge]

06-09-2019: The secrets of controlling your internet profile.  [BBC News]

05-09-2019: The rise of internet shutdowns.  [ITP Techblog]

04-09-2019: Hong Kong protesters should be smarter about their messaging apps.  [PocketNow]

28-08-2019: The safest messaging apps.  [Engadget]

21-08-2019: Google, Apple, Mozilla end government internet spying for good.  [The Register]

18-08-2019: Would the internet be a better place if no-one was anonymous?  [Stuff]

13-08-2019: Exploiting GDPR to get private information.  [Schneier]

02-08-2019: More on backdooring (or not) WhatsApp.  [Schneier]

01-08-2019: Facebook plans on backdooring WhatsApp.  [Schneier]

20-07-2019: How private is your browser’s Private mode?  [Ars Technica]

08-07-2019: Thousands of Android apps can track your phone - even if you deny permissions.  [The Verge]

03-07-2019: Superhuman says it will disable email read receipts by default after privacy controversy.  [The Verge]  [The Verge]  [Engadget]

03-07-2019: How to stop your emails from being tracked.  [The Verge]

02-07-2019: China injecting spyware into foreigners' smartphones.  [The Register]  [NYT]  [ExtremeTech]

16-06-2019: It's time to switch to a privacy browser.  [Wired]

14-06-2019: Video surveillance by computer.  [Schneier]  [ACLU, blog]

03-06-2019: Facebook lawyer argues you should have ‘no expectation of privacy'.  [Graham Cluley]

29-05-2019: While you're sleeping, your iPhone stays busy -- snooping on you.  [NZ Herald]

28-05-2019: Germany considers backdoor for end-to-end chat app encryption.  [The Register]

27-05-2019: All the ways Google tracks you -- and how to stop it.  [Wired]

24-05-2019: Germany talking about banning end-to-end encryption.  [Schneier]  [Der Spiegel]

• 15-05-2019: Reverse engineering a Chinese surveillance app.  [Schneier]  [HRW]  [HRW]

25-04-2019: Fooling automated surveillance cameras with patchwork color printout.  [Schneier]  [Technology Review]

23-04-2019: G7 comes out in favour of encryption backdoors.  [Schneier]  [G7 PDF]

19-04-2019: Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance.  [The Register]

18-04-2019: Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text.  [Engadget]  [Graham Cluley]  [BBC News]  [DPReview]  [The Verge]  [The Verge]  [Ars Technica]

03-04-2019: Facebook asked over 500 million users for their email passwords.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]  [Graham Cluley]  [Wired]  [Engadget]  [The Verge]  [ExtremeTech]  [Stuff]

• 03-04-2019: Facebook stops asking new users for email passwords.  [Engadget]

• 04-04-2019: 540 million Facebook profiles exposed by 2 insecure databases.  [ExtremeTech]

26-03-2019: Personal data left on used laptops.  [Schneier]  [Rapid7]  [Gizmodo]

21-03-2019: Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text for years.  [Krebs]  [Graham Cluley]  [Android Police]  [PocketNow]  [BBC News]  [HardOCP]  [ExtremeTech]  [The Verge]  [Wired]  [Engadget]  [Ars Technica]  [Wired]

18-03-2019: What it's like to accidentally expose the data of 230 million people.  [Wired]

05-03-2019: Russian 'sovereign internet' bill could give Putin his own Great Firewall.  [Engadget]

31-01-2019: Locking out law enforcement is an 'unintended side effect' of new Android security.  [HardOCP]  [Motherboard]

30-01-2019: Want a bit of privacy? Got a USB stick? Welcome to TAILS 3.12.  [The Register]

20-12-2019: MI5 spying "immune" to prosecution.  [The Register]

19-12-2019: Data swept up by the NSA is protected by the Fourth Amendment.  [Engadget]  [The Register]

13-12-2019: Report on 2016 FBI spying reveals a scandal of historic magnitude.  [The Intercept]

12-12-2019: Scaring people into supporting backdoors.  [Schneier]

12-12-2019: NZ government's power to order decryption must respect privacy.  [Voxy]

• 11-12-2019: The fight over encrypted messaging is just beginning.  [The Verge]  [Ars Technica]

10-12-2019: Senators: Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption... that the Feds and cops can break.  [The Register]

24-11-2019: Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password.  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]

20-11-2019: US police can access Ring data with few limits.  [The Register]  [Ars Technica]

• 18-11-2019: FBI sought Interpol statement against end-to-end crypto.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

14-11-2019: The NSA has stopped collecting warrantless location data.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]

06-11-2019: NSA ask Congress to reauthorize spy programmes.  [The Register]

31-10-2019: ACLU sues to reveal the FBI's uses of facial recognition.  [Engadget]

28-10-2019: Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker chooses encryption over backdoors.  [Schneier]  [Lawfare]

08-10-2019: FBI violated Americans’ privacy by abusing access to NSA surveillance data.  [The Verge]  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

04-10-2019: US wants Facebook to backdoor WhatsApp and halt encryption plans.  [Ars Technica]

• 05-10-2019: Why Barr’s call against end-to-end encryption is nuts.  [Ars Technica]

01-10-2019: NSA on the future of cybersecurity.  [Schneier]

11-09-2019: More on law enforcement backdoor demands.  [Schneier]  [Carnegie]

16-08-2019: NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program.  [The Register]

13-08-2019: Facial recognition in King's Cross prompts call for new laws.  [BBC News]  [BBC News]  [The Register]  [BBC News]

• 06-09-2019: King's Cross facial recognition CCTV handed over to police.  [The Register]

12-08-2019: Evaluating the NSA's telephony metadata program.  [Schneier]

09-08-2019: The FBI wants to build a data dragnet on Facebook.  [The Verge]

08-08-2019: FBI, NSA to hackers: weed need your help - even if you've smoked a little pot in the past.  [The Register]

07-08-2019: South Wales Police to use facial recognition app on phones.  [BBC News]

• 04-09-2019: High Court rules Welsh Police's use of facial recognition "lawful".  [The Register]

• 06-08-2019: Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant.  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]  [ExtremeTech]

• 22-08-2019: Ring asks police not to tell public how its law enforcement backend works.  [Ars Technica]

• 29-08-2019: Ring confirms it works with more than 400 police departments.  [ExtremeTech]

05-08-2019: Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark."  [Ars Technica]  [Schneier]

01-08-2019: Privacy concerns over Five Eyes plan to open up private messages.  [Stuff]

31-07-2019: Five Eyes countries have 'robust conversation' with social media companies.  [Stuff]

30-07-2019: ACLU on the GCHQ backdoor proposal.  [Schneier]  [Davis Vanguard]

15-07-2019: Palantir's surveillance service for law enforcement.  [Schneier]  [Motherboard]

12-07-2019: The FBI plans more social media surveillance.  [Engadget]

27-06-2019: Five Eyes hypocrisy in attacking Yandex.  [The Register]

26-06-2019: NSA improperly collected even more call records than we thought.  [Engadget]  [The Register]

17-06-2019: Police can unlock any iPhone with Cellebrite’s new tool.  [ExtremeTech]

30-05-2019: Google, WhatsApp, and Apple slam GCHQ proposal to snoop on encrypted chats.  [The Verge]  [BBC News]  [The Register]

22-05-2019: London Underground to start tracking all phones using Wi-Fi.  [ExtremeTech]  [Engadget]  [Graham Cluley]

20-05-2019: UK Espionage Act will crack down on British whistleblowers, suspected backdoored gear.  [The Register]

15-05-2019: MI5 slapped on the wrist for 'serious' surveillance data breach.  [The Register]

03-05-2019: Minister: UK is 'not a surveillance state'.  [The Register]

01-05-2019: Warrantless smartphone searches at the US border are unconstitutional.  [The Register]

29-04-2019: Five Eyes meet at UK conference for first time.  [ITP Techblog]

25-04-2019: The NSA says it's time to drop its massive phone-surveillance programme.  [Engadget]  [The Register]

24-04-2019: Judge: cops can force suspect's finger onto iPhone to see if it unlocks.  [The Register]

24-04-2019: GCHQ: We need trust or we won't have a 'licence to operate in cyberspace'.  [The Register]

17-04-2019: Microsoft didn't want to sell its facial recognition tech to California police.  [Engadget]

14-04-2019: Google faces surge in police requests for mobile location data.  [Engadget]

08-04-2019: Ghidra: NSA's reverse-engineer tool.  [Schneier]  [Ghidra]

03-04-2019: It's time to end the NSA's metadata collection programme.  [Wired]

26-03-2019: Speargun and mass surveillance.  [NZ Herald]

21-03-2019: In the face of danger, we're turning to surveillance.  [Wired]

13-03-2019: Thousands of ICE employees can access license plate reader data.  [The Verge]  [Wired]

06-03-2019: NSA makes Ghidra, a powerful cybersecurity tool, open source.  [Wired]  [HardOCP]  [NSA]  [The Register]

05-03-2019: NSA has shut down phone call record surveillance.  [Ars Technica]  [The Verge]  [The Register]

13-01-2019: How FBI tried to force Facebook to wiretap its chat app.  [The Register]

25-01-2019: Hacking the GCHQ backdoor.  [Schneier]

18-01-2019: Evaluating the GCHQ exceptional access proposal.  [Schneier]

14-01-2019: Feds forcing mass fingerprint unlocks is an “abuse of power.”  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [Forbes]

10-01-2019: Kaspersky blew whistle on NSA hacking tool hoarder.  [Ars Technica]

19-12-2018: Google shuts down its censored China search engine project.  [NZ Herald]

13-12-2018: Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you tell it to stop.  [The Register]

12-12-2018: Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rights organisations to top Euro court.  [The Register]

16-11-2018: No One Wants to Talk About How Completely We Were Lied to.  [ExtremeTech]

13-11-2018: Online security and privacy: what an email address reveals.  [BBC News]

07-11-2018: Dutch police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app.  [Ars Technica]  [Graham Cluley]

04-11-2018: China's next big export: censorship.  [NZ Herald]

24-10-2018: Tim Cook blasts 'weaponisation' of personal data and praises GDPR.  [BBC News]

21-09-2018: Windows may be storing all your email and docs as unencrypted plaintext.  [ExtremeTech]

06-09-2018: IBM secretly used New York’s CCTV cameras to train its surveillance software.  [The Verge]

05-09-2018: How autocratic governments use Facebook against their own citizens.  [The Verge]

17-08-2018: New ways to track Internet browsing.  [Schneier]  [PDF]

• 13-08-2018: Google tracks its users even if they opt out of tracking.  [Schneier]  [Wired]  [Graham Cluley]  [BBC News]  [HEXUS]

• 17-08-2018: How Google’s location-tracking issue affects you.  [Engadget]

• 18-08-2018: Google clarifies its language about Location History settings.  [Android Police]

01-08-2018: Whistleblower reveals Google’s plans for censored search in China.  [The Verge]  [Wired]

30-07-2018: Identifying people by metadata.  [Schneier]  [UCL PDF]

29-06-2018: Facebook files patent for exactly the kind of spying it claims it doesn’t do.  [ExtremeTech]

14-06-2018: Encrypted messaging isn't magic.  [Wired]

04-06-2018: Tesco probably knows more about people than GCHQ.  [The Register]

04-06-2018: GDPR in plain language.  [Russ White]  [FreeCodeCamp]

01-06-2018: An advert against online privacy.  [Graham Cluley]

26-05-2018: Why is your location no longer private?  [Krebs]

21-05-2018: Japan's Directorate for Signals Intelligence.  [Schneier]  [The Intercept]

19-05-2018: A location-sharing disaster shows how exposed you really are.  [Wired]

18-05-2018: How to delete yourself from the Internet.  [ReadWriteWeb]

14-05-2018: Tracking your physical location through your smartphone.  [HardOCP]  [EFF]

01-05-2018: Amazon tells Signal’s creators to stop using anti-censorship tool.  [The Verge]

27-04-2018: Security trade-offs in the new EU privacy law.  [Krebs]

14-04-2018: How to make your own personal VPN in under 30 minutes.  [Android Police]

• 13-04-2018: Facebook defends U.S. mass surveillance of EU citizens for ‘national security’ reasons.  [THG]

• 09-04-2018: Don’t give away historic details about yourself.  [Krebs]

08-04-2018: How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS.  [Ars Technica]

04-04-2018: Disconnecting from Facebook.  [Russ White]  [CircleID]

01-04-2018: Cloudflare makes it harder for ISPs to track your web history.  [Engadget]  [Lifehacker]  [Wired]  [The Verge]  [The Register]  [Hexus]  [The Gadgeteer]  [Russ White]  [The Hacker News]  [Networking Nerd]  [EtherealMind]

• 05-04-2018: Oblivious DNS.  [Russ White]  [CircleID]

31-03-2018: Iran reportedly to block Telegram due to 'national security' concerns.  [Android Police]

• 18-04-2018: Iranian officials are no longer allowed to use Telegram.  [Engadget]

• 30-04-2018: Iran tells ISPs to block Telegram.  [Engadget]  [BBC News]  [Ars Technica]

• 22-06-2018: The effects of Iran's Telegram ban.  [Schneier]

24-03-2018: How to find out everything Facebook knows about you.  [Lifehacker]

21-03-2018: Telegram loses appeal to keep encryption keys from Russian government.  [Android Police]  [Schneier]

• 21-03-2018: Telegram still won't hand over crypto keys it says it does not store.  [The Register]

• 06-04-2018: Russia seeks to block Telegram messaging app.  [BBC News]  [Engadget]  [The Register]

• 13-04-2018: Russia to block Telegram app over encryption.  [BBC News]  [Engadget]  [Android Police]  [PocketNow]  [THG]  [Ars Technica]

• 13-04-2018: Telegram may be turning a blind eye to rampant piracy.  [Android Police]

• 17-04-2018: Russia's Telegram block hits web users.  [BBC News]  [HardOCP]  [TorrentFreak]  [Android Police]

• 20-04-2018: Russia's Telegram ban 'failing'.  [BBC News]

• 23-04-2018: Russia Telegram ban hits Google and Amazon services.  [BBC News]  [Schneier]

• 08-05-2018: Russia's war on Telegram sees 50 VPNs stopped at the border.  [The Register]

• 29-05-2018: Russia asks Apple to remove Telegram from the App Store.  [The Verge]

• 31-05-2018: Telegram says Apple has been rejecting its app updates even outside of Russia.  [The Verge]  [The Register]

13-03-2018: Weighing privacy vs security for the Internet's address book.  [Wired]

12-03-2018: China altered its public vulnerability database to conceal spy agency tinkering.  [The Register]

28-02-2018: Apple to store encryption keys in China.  [Schneier]

26-02-2018: Email leave an evidence trail.  [Schneier]  [Slate]

15-01-2018: New EU privacy law may weaken security.  [Krebs]

12-01-2018: Facial recognition is coming to retail.  [Schneier]  [Slate]

11-01-2018: Microsoft finally injects end-to-end chat crypto into Skype.  [The Register]  [Wired]  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]  [HardOCP]  [Signal]

18-12-2018: Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

16-12-2018: Australian encryption laws explained.  [EtherealMind]

15-12-2018: Signal app to Australia: Good luck with that crypto ban.  [Ars Technica]

14-12-2018: NZ and Five Eyes partners met before Huawei arrest.  [NZ Herald]

07-12-2018: Australia's controversial anti-encryption bill passes into law.  [Engadget]  [The Register]  [Stuff]  [BBC News]  [HardOCP]  [Wired]  [NZ Herald]  [ExtremeTech]  [Schneier]

• 141-12-2018: Fitch on AU encryption law: negative for tech sector  [Stuff]

03-12-2018: The DoJ's secret legal arguments to break cryptography.  [Schneier]

29-11-2018: GCHQ pushes for 'virtual crocodile clips' on chat apps.  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [Lawfare]

29-11-2018: High Court agrees to hear full legal challenge of UK Snooper's Charter.  [The Register]

29-11-2018: GCHQ reveals vulnerability disclosure process.  [The Register]

28-11-2018: DoJ made secret arguments to break crypto, now ACLU wants to make them public.  [Ars Technica]

27-11-2018: Australia: opposition offers encryption backdoor compromise.  [The Register]

26-11-2018: The FBI impersonated FedEx to catch cybercriminals.  [HardOCP]  [Motherboard]  [Graham Cluley]

31-10-2018: Feds took woman’s iPhone at border, she sued, now they agree to delete data.  [Ars Technica]

• 29-10-2018: Oz spy boss defends 'high risk vendor' ban.  [The Register]

24-10-2018: Apple have completely blocked police password cracking tool in iOS 12.  [The Verge]  [ExtremeTech]

• 24-10-2018: Apple boss decries 'data industrial complex' while pocketing billions to hook Google into iOS.  [The Register]

17-10-2018: UK.gov takes red pen to spy court rules, asks for Parliament's OK.  [The Register]

15-10-2018: Five Eyes reports on hackers' tools.  [TechBlog NZ]  [NCSC]

14-10-2018: Police told to avoid looking at recent iPhones to avoid lockouts.  [Engadget]

01-10-2018: NZ border police to demand travelers hand over electronic passwords.  [The Register]  [Ars Technica]  [Stuff]

30-09-2018: The FBI used a suspect’s face to unlock his iPhone.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]  [PocketNow]  [HardOCP]  [Forbes]  [ExtremeTech]  [Wired]

• 03-10-2018: FBI vs Facebook Messenger: what’s at stake?  [Ars Technica]

30-09-2018: FBI: We can’t listen to Facebook Messenger voice calls. Judge: Tough luck.  [Ars Technica]

19-09-2018: NSA software fuels rise in crypto mining malware.  [HardOCP]  [TechXplore]

17-09-2018: NSA attacks against VPNs.  [Schneier]  [The Intercept]

13-09-2018: Bulk interception by GCHQ (and NSA) violated human rights charter.  [Ars Technica]  [HardOCP]  [The Guardian]

09-09-2018: NSA metadata programme “consistent” with Fourth Amendment.  [Ars Technica]

07-09-2018: Alarms raised over insidious creep of surveillance in the UK.  [The Register]

03-09-2018: Five Eyes calls on tech sector to 'do the right thing'.  [ITP Techblog]  [The Verge]  [HardOCP]  [DHA AU]  [Schneier]  [The Register]  [Stuff]

• 03-09-2018: InternetNZ is calling for debate on Five Eyes recommendations.  [Voxy]

• 01-10-2018: More on the Five Eyes statement on encryption and backdoors.  [Schneier]

20-08-2018: The law of snooping.  [Geoff Huston]

17-08-2018: US reportedly pressuring Facebook to break Messenger’s encryption over MS-13 investigation.  [The Verge]

13-08-2018: When's a backdoor not a backdoor? When the Oz government says it isn't.  [The Register]  [Russ White]  [CDT]

• 15-08-2018: Australia's Snooper's Charter: experts react.  [The Register]

• 19-09-2018: AU government rushes its anti-crypto legislation into parliament.  [The Register]

• 03-10-2018: Australian encryption law a bad move for New Zealand.  [NZ Herald]

• 12-10-2018: Apple fires back at Australian encryption bill.  [Engadget]

• 20-10-2018: AU intel committee: Crypto-busting is only bad if you're a commie, and we're not.  [The Register]

29-07-2018: NSA has yet to fix security holes that helped Snowden leaks.  [Engadget]

27-07-2018: New report on police digital forensics techniques.  [Schneier]  [CSIS]

23-07-2018: UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do?  [The Register]  [BBC News]

19-07-2018: GCHQ doubts Huawei’s role with UK networks.  [PocketNow]

18-07-2018: Judge slams FBI for improper cellphone search, stingray use.  [Ars Technica]

13-07-2018: How the US government secretly sold 'spy phones' to suspects.  [Wired]  [The Register]

06-07-2018: The NSA's domestic surveillance centers.  [Schneier]  [The Intercept]

05-07-2018: London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition with 98 percent false positive rate.  [The Verge]

04-07-2018: How the GCSB collects information about Kiwis through spying on the Pacific - and why it's legal.  [NZ Herald]

30-06-2018: NSA deletes hundreds of millions of call records over privacy violations.  [Engadget]

29-06-2018: ACLU's biggest roadblock to fighting mass surveillance.  [Wired]

29-06-2018: UK has made 'significant progress' in spy control.  [The Register]

26-06-2018: Senator to FCC: How much do police stingrays drain a cellphone battery?  [Ars Technica]

24-06-2018: NSA "systematically moving" all its data to the cloud.  [HardOCP]  [Defense One]

22-06-2018: Amazon staffers protest giant's 'support of the surveillance state'.  [The Register]

14-06-2018: Apple to block police iPhone hacking tools in future update.  [ExtremeTech]

• 15-06-2018: Police say iPhone hackers have workaround to Apple’s new security feature.  [HardOCP]  [Motherboard]

• 09-07-2018: Apple releases iOS 11.4.1 and blocks passcode cracking tools used by police.  [The Verge]

• 10-07-2018: New iOS security feature can be defeated by a $39 adapter… sold by Apple.  [Graham Cluley]  [Schneier]

05-06-2018: End-to-end encryption doesn’t stop the FBI reading your messages.  [Graham Cluley]

05-06-2018: NSA security education posters from the Cold War.  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]

29-05-2018: GCHQ claims most of their work is making sure they operate within the law.  [The Register]

23-05-2018: FBI admits over-counting locked iPhones and other mobiles.  [BBC News]  [Ars Technica]  [The Verge]  [Wired]

17-05-2018: Senators to DOJ: Reveal your secret paragraph-long explanation of stingrays.  [Ars Technica]

14-05-2018: UK's National Crime Agency: encryption makes policing hard.  [The Register]

10-05-2018: ZTE sanctions see Australia’s top telco dump mobile vendor.  [The Register]

10-05-2018: New law would stop feds from demanding encryption backdoor.  [The Register]

06-05-2018: A facial recognition program used by British police yielded thousands of false positives.  [The Verge]

05-05-2018: NSA tripled its phone record collection in 2017.  [Engadget]  [HardOCP]  [Reuters]  [HardOCP]

30-04-2018: Cops take dead man’s smartphone to his corpse in attempt to unlock it.  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]

26-04-2018: NZ intelligence and security agencies without layer of oversight since 2016.  [Stuff]

25-04-2018: Two NSA algorithms rejected by the ISO.  [Schneier]  [WikiTribune]  [The Register]  [Graham Cluley]

16-04-2018: UK, US governments warn against buying ZTE hardware.  [THG]  [The Register]  [Engadget]

• 16-04-2018: US government bans ZTE equipment for 7 years.  [The Register]  [PocketNow]

15-04-2018: US police can now unlock iPhones, records show.  [HardOCP]  [Motherboard]

09-04-2018: 'Feds only' encryption backdoors proposed by US Democrats.  [The Register]

03-04-2018: List of Chinese kit facing extra US import tariffs.  [The Register]

03-04-2018: Feds: There are hostile stingrays in DC, but we don’t know how to find them.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]  [BBC News]  [ExtremeTech]

• 09-04-2018: FCC ordered by Congress to do something about fake cell towers.  [The Register]

  • 01-06-2018: Stingray phone stalker tech used near White House.  [The Register]

  • 08-06-2018: FCC shrugs at fake cell towers around the White House.  [Engadget]

30-03-2018: Any social media accounts to declare? US wants travelers to tell.  [The Register]

23-03-2018: Cops will definitely use dead suspects fingers/face to open iPhones.  [HardOCP]  [Forbes]  [Schneier]

23-03-2018: GreyKey iPhone unlocker.  [Schneier]  [MalwareBytes]

21-03-2018: NSA has been tracking Bitcoin users since 2013.  [HardOCP]  [Zero Hedge]  [The Intercept]

07-03-2018: FBI again calls for magical solution to break into encrypted phones.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

• 12-03-2018: FBI backs away from the backdoor and asks for private sector co-op.  [HardOCP]  [FBI]

07-03-2018: NSA leak reveals the agency's list of enemy hackers.  [Wired]

07-03-2018: The leaked NSA spy tool that hacked the world.  [Wired]  [HardOCP]  [Imperva]

07-03-2018: Fresh docs detail 10-year link between Geek Squad informers and Feds.  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [EFF]  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]

27-02-2018: Cellebrite unlocks iPhones for the US government.  [Schneier]  [Forbes]  [HardOCP]  [Graham Cluley]

27-02-2018: Australia: IPv6 and 5G will make life hell for spooks and cops say.  [The Register]

22-02-2018: Man removes feds’ spy cam, they demand it back, he refuses and sues.  [Ars Technica]

30-01-2018: The UK’s mass surveillance powers have been ruled illegal.  [The Verge]  [THG]

25-01-2018: UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors.  [The Register]

20-01-2018: When it comes to voice identification, the "NSA Reigns Supreme".  [HardOCP]  [The Intercept]  [The Verge]

13-01-2018: Feds may have to explain knowledge of security holes – if draft law comes into play.  [The Register]

12-01-2018: FBI security expert: Apple are “jerks” about unlocking encrypted phones.  [Ars Technica]  [HardOCP]  [Motherboard]

11-01-2018: Yet another FBI proposal for insecure communications.  [Schneier]  [DoJ]

10-01-2018: U.S. House to vote on FISA mass surveillance bill.  [THG]  [HardOCP]  [New America]  [House PDF]

• 11-01-2018: House votes to renew controversial surveillance program that powers the NSA.  [The Verge]  [Wired]  [HardOCP]  [EFF]  [Engadget]  [The Register]

• 16-01-2018: US senators vow to filibuster NSA's domestic mass spying program.  [The Register]

09-01-2018: How the government hides secret surveillance programmes.  [Wired]

09-01-2018: FBI says it can't unlock 8,000 encrypted devices, demands backdoors for America's 'public safety'.  [The Register]  [Stuff]  [Engadget]

06-01-2018: NSA’s top talent is leaving: low pay, slumping morale, unpopular reorganization.  [HardOCP]  [Washington Post]  [Schneier]

31-12-2017: Iran blocks internet services in bid to quash protests.  [Engadget]

31-12-2017: Facebook says it is deleting accounts at the direction of the U.S. and Israeli governments.  [The Intercept]

19-12-2017: Facebook reveals rise in official data requests.  [BBC News]

16-12-2017: Secrecy is dead - here's what happens next.  [Wired]

15-12-2017: Tracking people without GPS.  [Schneier]  [Android Authority]

13-12-2017: Email tracking.  [Schneier]  [Wired]

12-12-2017: How to reclaim your digital privacy from online tracking.  [Lifehacker]

11-12-2017: Netflix is watching you watching.  [HardOCP]  [Netflix Twitter]

11-12-2017: How email open tracking quietly took over the web.  [Wired]

10-12-2017: China’s all-seeing state.  [BBC News]

06-12-2017: Germany preparing backdoor law.  [Schneier]  [BleepingComputer]

30-11-2017: Google faces mass legal action in UK over data snooping.  [BBC News]

30-11-2017: How websites watch your every move and ignore privacy settings.  [Stuff]

28-11-2017: Why you should use incognito mode when browsing online.  [Stuff]

22-11-2017: The beginner's guide to VPNs.  [Lifehacker]

09-11-2017: History of networking -- RAVEN and Internet surveillance.  [Network Collective]

06-11-2017: Galizia's murder and the security of WhatsApp.  [Schneier]

05-11-2017: Why we should all be using Signal.  [Wired]

03-11-2017: Enabling privacy is not harmful.  [Russ White]

03-11-2017: Tor’s next-gen onion system works to keep servers hidden.  [Engadget]  [The Register]  [THG]  [Ars Technica]  [Lifehacker]

31-10-2017: Russia's anti-VPN law comes into effect.  [The Register]  [BBC News]

16-10-2017: Telegram fined after refusing to provide user data to Russia.  [Engadget]

08-10-2017: VPN logs helped unmask alleged 'net stalker.  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [ExtremeTech]  [Graham Cluley]  [HardOCP]

06-10-2017: Is privacy dead in an online world?  [BBC News]

27-09-2017: Social media and censorship in China: how is it different to the West?  [BBC News]

25-09-2017: WhatsApp is now blocked in China.  [Android Police]  [NYT]  [BBC News]  [Engadget]

27-08-2017: China's new wave of Internet censorship: name verification for online commenting.  [HardOCP]  [The Diplomat]  [The Register]

24-08-2017: Why it’s still a bad idea to post or trash your airline boarding pass.  [Krebs]

23-08-2017: How Google is secretly recording you.  [NZ Herald]

19-08-2017: Apple may be making moves to make phones harder for police to get into.  [FStoppers]

13-08-2017: Algorithm shows the data you give away when clicking suggested links.  [Engadget]

11-08-2017: How secure are your messages.  [HardOCP]  [BYU News]

03-08-2017: 'Incognito Mode' is not as private as you think.  [Lifehacker]

31-07-2017: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: crypto ban won't help trap terrorists.  [The Register]

30-07-2017: VPNs are now banned in Russia.  [HardOCP]  [Reuters]  [Engadget]  [The Register]  [BBC News]  [The Verge]

28-07-2017: Is your VPN lying to you?  [Engadget]

26-07-2017: Spies, cops don't need to crack WhatsApp: they'll just hack your smartphone.  [The Register]

• 25-07-2017: Alternatives to government-mandated encryption backdoors.  [Schneier]  [Scribd]  [Lawfare]

24-07-2017: China crams spyware on phones in Muslim-majority province.  [The Register]

18-07-2017: Google's new-look transparency report.  [Google Blog]

18-07-2017: China blocks WhatsApp users from sending photos and video.  [Engadget]  [Gizmodo]  [The Verge]  [The Register]  [BBC News, BBC News]

17-07-2017: Telegram to block terror channels after Indonesian ban.  [BBC News]  [The Verge]

13-07-2017: New German law encourages censorship.  [Russ White]  [CDT]

11-07-2017: China Will Reportedly Ban Personal VPNs by February 2018.  [ExtremeTech]  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [Bloomberg]

• 12-07-2017: China tells carriers to block access to personal VPNs by February.  [HardOCP]  [Bloomberg]

• 12-07-2017: New Chinese Internet clampdown hurts business, U.S. group says.  [DC Knowledge]

• 13-07-2017: China might not block personal VPNs after all.  [Engadget]

• 29-07-2017: Apple pulls VPN apps following China crackdown.  [Engadget]  [Gizmodo]  [Stuff]  [BBC News]

• 01-08-2017: Tim Cook justifies removing VPN apps in China, claiming Apple was only following the law.  [The Verge]

• 02-08-2017: Apple caved to China, just like almost every other tech giant.  [Wired]

• 10-08-2017: China's VPN developers face crackdown.  [BBC News]

• 17-08-2017: China cracks down on VPN vendors.  [BBC News]

• 05-09-2017: China crackdown: VPN vendor gets prison.  [The Register]  [BBC News]

10-07-2017: China is said to close major hole in its Great Internet Firewall.  [DC Knowledge]

27-06-2017: Encrypted chat app Telegram warned by Russian regulator: 'comply or goodbye'.  [The Register]

• 28-06-2017: Telegram will register with Russia but won't share secure data.  [Engadget]  [BBC News]

26-06-2017: Crypto War 3: Five Eyes and G20 nations plan renewed assault on encryption.  [THG]

20-06-2017: Mexico 'spied on journalists, lawyers and activists'.  [BBC News]

19-06-2017: Backdoor backlash: European Parliament wants better privacy.  [The Register]

18-06-2017: How to browse the web and leave no trace.  [Gizmodo]

16-06-2017: Governments breaking encryption still a bad idea.  [NZ Herald]

15-06-2017: Germany looking to introduce anti-encryption laws.  [The Register]

14-06-2017: Tails OS hits version 3.0, matches Debian's pace but bins 32-bit systems.  [The Register]  [THG]

09-06-2017: Tor Browser 7.0 works harder to protect your anonymity on its own.  [Engadget]

09-06-2017: Afrinic shuts down IP address shutdown over internet shutdowns.  [The Register]

08-06-2017: All the ways Facebook tracks you.  [Gizmodo]

07-06-2017: Surveillance intermediaries.  [Schneier]

01-06-2017: Passwords at the border.  [Schneier]  [EFF PDF]

01-06-2017: How to clean up your social media presence.  [Lifehacker]

30-05-2017: Defend yourself against ISP tracking in an Trump-era free-for-all.  [The Register]

28-05-2017: How to spring clean your digital clutter to protect yourself.  [Wired]

26-05-2017: Theresa May wants to force tech giants to curb extremist content.  [Engadget]

25-05-2017: A clever new way to protect your data at the border could also add risk.  [Wired]

25-05-2017: Venezuela increases internet censorship and surveillance in crisis.  [The Register]

11-05-2017: A rare look at the archives of the German secret police.  [Wired]

05-05-2017: Turkish court backs censorship of Wikipedia.  [Engadget]

04-05-2017: Politicians who voted to sell out your online privacy get their faces plastered on billboards.  [Gizmodo]

03-05-2017: How to deal with encryption hypocrites.  [Wired]

30-04-2017: Secure messaging app showdown: WhatsApp vs. Signal.  [Lifehacker]

29-04-2017: Turkish authorities block Wikipedia without giving reason.  [BBC News]

28-04-2017: Dark patterns: the ways websites trick us into giving up our privacy.  [Gizmodo]

19-04-2017: A 10-step guide to using public WiFi.  [Network Computing]

15-04-2017: Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

14-04-2017: Using a web ad blocker may identify you – to advertisers.  [The Register]

13-04-2017: How to set up your own complete free VPN in the cloud.  [Lifehacker]

12-04-2017: TCP/IP headers leak info about what you're watching on Netflix.  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [MJKranch PDF]

11-04-2017: No perfect way to protect privacy.  [Stuff]

10-04-2017: How HTTPS website security is making the Internet safer from snoopers.  [Gizmodo]

10-04-2017: Internet Society to G20 nations: The web must be fully encrypted.  [The Register]

08-04-2017: Internet privacy explained for people who have never thought about internet privacy before.  [Gizmodo]

07-04-2017: Good luck finding a safe VPN.  [Engadget]

06-04-2017: Best VPN service: Private Internet Access.  [Lifehacker]

06-04-2017: The biggest misconception about VPNs.  [Lifehacker]

05-04-2017: Microsoft finally reveals what data Windows 10 collects from your PC.  [HardOCP]  [PCWorld]  [THG]  [ExtremeTech]

04-04-2017: Sir Tim Berners-Lee stands up for end-to-end crypto.  [The Register]  [The Verge]  [ExtremeTech]  [Wired]  [Gizmodo]

• 05-04-2017: Berners-Lee explains why you should not use a VPN.  [Stuff]

31-03-2017: How not to protect your privacy online.  [Gizmodo]

31-03-2017: How to hide online better than the Director of the FBI.  [Gizmodo]

30-03-2017: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June.  [The Register]

29-03-2017: Want to protect your privacy?  Open a tab and make some noise.  [Wired]

• 01-04-2017: Generating a bunch of 'Internet noise' isn't going to hide your browsing habits.  [Lifehacker]

20-03-2017: Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal.  [Ars Technica]  [HardOCP]  [The Register]  [BBC News]

14-03-2017: Naming computers endangers privacy.  [The Register]

13-03-2017: Facebook bars use of its social data for surveillance tools.  [Engadget]  [Gizmodo]  [NZ Herald]  [Stuff]  [THG]  [BBC News]

• 17-03-2017: Facebook's big "first step" to crack down on surveillance.  [Wired]

10-03-2017: Time for journalists to encrypt everything.  [Wired]

10-03-2017: Print out the EFF's border search pocket guide before you travel internationally.  [Lifehacker]  [EFF, PDF]

10-03-2017: Germany surveillance: Security trumps privacy as video bill passed.  [BBC News]

09-03-2017: How to stop devices spying on you.  [Stuff]

03-03-2017: How to snoop-proof any phone or tablet.  [Gizmodo]

02-03-2017: Mass spying isn't just intrusive, it's ineffective.  [Wired]

28-02-2017: Protect your online privacy with the 5 best VPNs.  [ExtremeTech]

27-02-2017: Google abandons 'End-To-End' email encryption project, invites community to take it over.  [THG]  [Wired]

24-02-2017: Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick shows you how to go invisible online.  [Wired]

17-02-2017: The privacy enthusiast's guide to using Android.  [Lifehacker]

13-02-2017: Erasing yourself from the internet is nearly impossible.  [Stuff]

10-02-2017: Crossing border security? Here's how you protect your data.  [Graham Cluley]  [Zdziarski]

• • 15-02-2017: Want to protect your data at the border? Delete it.  [The Verge]

09-02-2017: The Tor Project's ooniprobe allows you to participate in the vigil against internet censorship.  [Android Police]  [Gizmodo]

23-01-2017: China just made VPNs illegal.  [Engadget]  [The Register]  [Stuff]

21-01-2017: Lavabit has been resurrected, more secure than before.  [Engadget]  [The Verge]  [HardOCP]

19-01-2017: ProtonMail launches Tor hidden service to dodge totalitarian censorship.  [The Register]

05-01-2017: 20+ VPNs rated on privacy and security side-by-side.  [CompariTech]

27-12-2017: FBI fingerprint-analysis software may be compromised by Russian code.  [HardOCP]  [BuzzFeed]  [ExtremeTech]

21-12-2017: NSA surveillance reauthorization bill won't go to a vote just yet.  [Engadget]

20-12-2017: GCHQ cyber-spies 'over-achieved'.  [BBC News]

19-12-2017: US senators rail against effort to sneak through creepy mass spying bill.  [The Register]

• 12-12-2017: SIS criticised by government watchdog over 'unlawfully accessing' information.  [Stuff]  [NZ Herald]

12-12-2017: FBI director again laments strong encryption in remarks to Congress.  [Ars Technica]

06-12-2017: White House lets NSA's warrantless surveillance continue until April.  [Engadget]

02-12-2017: NSA surveillance expansion bill moves to House for a vote.  [Engadget]

27-11-2017: The 'StingRay' device that sweeps up data.  [NZ Herald]

• 24-11-2017: Judge who once ruled against NSA metadata program tosses lawsuit.  [Ars Technica]

• 14-11-2017: Long article on the NSA and the Shadow Brokers.  [Schneier]  [NYT]

09-11-2017: DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable.”  [Ars Technica]

08-11-2017: FBI can’t break the encryption on Texas shooter’s smartphone.  [Ars Technica]  [HardOCP]  [Washington Examiner]  [The Verge]  [Engadget]  [The Register]

• 08-11-2017: Apple offered to help FBI unlock Texas shooter's phone.  [Engadget]  [BBC News]  [PocketNow]

• 10-11-2017: FBI and Apple may again clash over encypted iPhone after Texas shooting.  [ExtremeTech]

08-11-2017: US foreign spying bill progresses through Congress.  [The Register]

07-11-2017: UK's surveillance regime challenged in landmark European court hearing.  [The Register]

27-10-2017: Kaspersky says NSA employee used backdoored MS Office key gen.  [HardOCP]  [The Register]  [Kaspersky]

27-10-2017: FBI increases anti-encryption rhetoric.  [Schneier]  [Lawfare]  [Engadget]

24-10-2017: Battle over two US spying laws: one allows snooping on citizens – one bans it.  [The Register]

23-10-2017: FBI failed to access 7,000 encrypted mobile devices.  [BBC News]  [Graham Cluley]  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [AP News]  [Engadget]  [Ars Technica]  [ExtremeTech]

18-10-2017: Brit spooks 'kept oversight bodies in the dark' over data sharing.  [The Register]

05-10-2017: How bad can the new spying legislation be? Exhibit 1: it's called the USA Liberty Act.  [The Register]

05-10-2017: Australia approves national database of everyone's mugshots.  [The Register]

03-10-2017: UK Home Secretary: 'I don't need to understand how encryption works.'  [Graham Cluley]

21-09-2017: Court rules Stingray use without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment.  [Engadget]

21-09-2017: ISO rejects NSA encryption algorithms.  [Schneier]  [Reuters]  [Engadget]

20-09-2017: WhatsApp reportedly refused to build a backdoor for the UK government.  [The Verge]

14-09-2017: NSA once spied on your *NSYNC downloads from Kazaa.  [Engadget]

14-09-2017: Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers.  [Ars Technica]

14-09-2017: Microsoft adds cloud security to keep out hackers and government snoops.  [DC Knowledge]

08-09-2017: Shadow Brokers releases NSA UNITEDRAKE manual.  [Schneier]  [Document Cloud PDF]

01-09-2017: Updating U.S. surveillance laws.  [Russ White]  [The Federalist]

31-08-2017: NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: getting Trump on board.  [The Register]

30-08-2017: US government: We can jail you indefinitely for not decrypting your data.  [The Register]  [Ars Technica]

29-08-2017: How the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto.  [HardOCP]  [Medium]

25-08-2017: NSA ramps up PR campaign to keep its mass spying powers.  [The Register]

24-08-2017: The CIA built a fake software update system to spy on intel partners.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]

19-08-2017: US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems.  [The Register]

17-08-2017: Do the police need a search warrant to access cellphone location data?  [Schneier]

15-08-2017: Apple, Facebook, and other companies ask Supreme Court to block warrantless cellphone tracking.  [The Verge]

15-08-2017: US military spies: We'll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries.  [The Register]

12-08-2017: Russian group that hacked DNC used NSA attack code in attack on hotels.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

11-08-2017: Former UK spy boss backs crypto.  [The Register]

08-08-2017: Warrantless US spying is set to expire soon -- let it die.  [Wired]

03-08-2017: WikiLeaks releases docs on 'Dumbo' CIA tool allowing control of webcams.  [HardOCP]  [WikiLeaks]

01-08-2017: 'Real people' do not want secure communications, claims UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd.  [Graham Cluley]  [The Register]

01-08-2017: NSA collects MS Windows error information.  [Schneier]  [Der Spiegel]

• 28-07-2017: Zero-day vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA tools released by the Shadow Brokers.  [Schneier]  [Rapid7]

26-07-2017: US spies hacked our phones over the air, claim pipeline protesters.  [The Register]

24-07-2017: NZ spies surveilled Kim Dotcom for 2 months longer than admitted.  [Ars Technica]

18-07-2017: ISPs barred from telling users they’re under FBI investigation.  [Engadget]  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

14-07-2017: US border agents: We won’t search data “located solely on remote servers”.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]

14-07-2017: UK GCHQ can crack end-to-end encryption says Australian Attorney General.  [The Register]

12-07-2017: More on the NSA's use of traffic shaping.  [Schneier]  [TCF]  [Russ White]

11-07-2017: DoJ: FBI didn’t need warrant for stingray in attempted murder case.  [Ars Technica]

29-06-2017: Five-eyes nations want comms providers to bust crypto for them.  [The Register]

28-06-2017: Leaked manual reveals how CIA can track Windows users by gauging Wi-Fi signal.  [Gizmodo]  [Wired]  [The Register]  [ExtremeTech]

26-06-2017: Australian govt promises to push Five Eyes nations to break encryption.  [The Register]  [Engadget]

• • 26-06-2017: Queensland Police want access to locked devices.  [The Register]

  • 07-07-2017: Oz government wants its own definition of what 'backdoor' means.  [The Register]

  • 10-07-2017: Former GCHQ boss backs end-to-end encryption.  [The Register]  [BBC News]

• 14-07-2017: Australian PM seeks access to encrypted messages.  [BBC News]  [Engadget]  [Schneier]  [NZ Herald]

22-06-2017: WikiLeaks doc dump reveals CIA tools for infecting air-gapped PCs.  [The Register]  [Ars Technica]  [ExtremeTech]

• 15-06-2017: Advanced CIA firmware has been infecting Wi-Fi routers for years.  [Ars Technica]  [The Verge]  [Wired]  [Engadget]  [Gizmodo]

  • 28-06-2017: CIA exploits against wireless routers.  [Schneier]  [Wikileaks]

• 15-06-2017: How BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states.  [BBC News]  [Engadget]

• 14-06-2017: An unknown tech company tried (and failed) to stop the NSA's warrantless spying.  [Gizmodo]  [IC on the Record]  [The Verge]

• 14-06-2017: Telegram chat app founder claims Feds offered backdoor bribe.  [The Register]

• 13-06-2017: AU opposition leader wants to do something about Bitcoin, because terrorism and crypto.  [The Register]

• 13-06-2017: Five Eyes nations threaten tech businesses and its encryption.  [The Register]

• 12-06-2017: AU government says UK's backdoor will be its not-a-backdoor model.  [The Register]

• 08-06-2017: Ex-NSA bod sues US govt for 'illegally spying' on Americans.  [The Register]

• 08-06-2017: Spy commissioners: Did we audit our bulk data sharing with industry? No.  [The Register]

• 05-06-2017: London attack: Tech firms fight back in extremism row.  [BBC News]  [Gizmodo]  [The Register]  [Stuff]

  • 05-06-2017: UK PM Theresa May's response to terror attacks 'shortsighted'.  [The Register]  [Graham Cluley]  [Wired]

  • 05-06-2017: London attack: Politicians v the internet.  [BBC News]

• 01-06-2017: WikiLeaks says CIA’s “Pandemic” turns servers into infectious Patient Zero.  [Ars Technica]  [Schneier]  [ThreatPost]

• 31-05-2017: Man gets 180 days in jail for not handing over his iPhone PIN.  [Engadget]  [HardOCP]  [Miami Herald]  [Stuff]

• 25-05-2017: UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election.  [The Register]

• 23-05-2017: Apple reveals it received at least one secret FBI request for user data.  [Gizmodo]

• 23-05-2017: Wikimedia is clear to sue the NSA.  [Engadget]  [Gizmodo]  [Ars Technica]  [THG]

• 23-05-2017: US Immigration & Customs is using Stingray to track illegal immigrants.  [Schneier]  [Gizmodo]

  • 23-05-2017: Senator demands answers after ICE uses 'Stingray' to arrest immigrant.  [Gizmodo]

• 23-05-2017: Two rulings go against the NSA.  [The Register]

• 19-05-2017: Federal agents used a Stingray to track an immigrant's phone.  [Engadget]  [Gizmodo]

• 19-05-2017: NSA abandons "About" searches.  [Schneier]

• 18-05-2017: Australian privacy commissioner flags new data mining rules for government agencies.  [The Register]

• 17-05-2017: The US Senate is using Signal.  [Schneier]  [Engadget]  [THG]  [The Verge]

• 16-05-2017: NSA brute-force keysearch machine.  [Schneier]  [The Intercept]

• 09-05-2017: I side with the 'bad guys' on encryption.  [Stuff]

03-05-2017: ACLU says demanding US citizens unlock phones at the border is unconstitutional.  [The Verge]

04-05-2017: US Intelligence “transparency report” reveals breadth of surveillance by NSA, others.  [Ars Technica]

04-05-2017: FBI's disturbing hacking powers challenged in court.  [Gizmodo]

03-05-2017: FBI director Comey backs renewed push for decryption law.  [Engadget]

01-05-2017: Who is publishing NSA and CIA secrets, and why?  [Schneier]

30-05-2017: CIA tracked leakers with bad Web beacon trick.  [The Register]

• 28-04-2017: NSA ends spying on messages Americans send about foreign surveillance targets.  [Ars Technica]  [The Register]  [HardOCP]  [NSA]  [Wired]  [Engadget]  [BBC News]

28-04-2017: Australian Federal Police accessed metadata without warrant, broke law.  [The Register]

24-04-2017: FBI allays some critics with first use of new mass-hacking warrant.  [Ars Technica]

20-04-2017: The DEA is buying cyberweapons from Hacking Team.  [Schneier]  [Motherboard]

19-04-2017: We're spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI.  [The Register]

18-04-2017: Rights warrior to US Homeland Security: stop asking people for their passwords.  [The Register]

11-04-2017: Notes on the FCC and privacy in the US.  [Russ White]  [CircleID]  [Shelly Palmer]

08-04-2017: 'Shadow Brokers' give away more NSA hacking tools.  [Engadget]  [Schneier]  [BBC News]  [The Verge]  [Ars Technica]  [NZ Herald]

14-04-2017: Major leak suggests NSA was deep in Middle East banking system.  [Wired]  [Engadget]

14-04-2017: Leaked NSA point-and-pwn hack tools menace Win2k to Windows 8.  [The Register]  [Engadget]  [Ars Technica]

15-04-2017: Microsoft has already patched the NSA's leaked Windows hacks.  [The Verge]  [Engadget]  [Ars Technica]  [