Privacy / Censorship / 5-Eyes Spying
2024 – News / Articles
21-04-2024: Europol issues urgent call against E2EE on Meta's platforms. [Restore Privacy]
22-03-2024: OpenVPN traffic can be easily identified and blocked. [Restore Privacy]
12-03-2024: ToR introduces new "WebTunnel" bridge to help bypass censorhip. [Restore Privacy]
11-03-2024: Tuta Mail adds quantum resistant encryption via TutaCrypt. [Restore Privacy]
05-03-2024: US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism. [The Register]
01-03-2024: Judge orders NSO to reveal Pegasus source code. [The Register]
20-02-2024: Microsoft is spying on users of its AI tools. [Schneier]
01-02-2024: Facebook's extensive surveillance network. [Schneier] [Consumer Reports]
30-01-2024: How to (mostly) stop location tracking on your Android phone. [The Verge]
11-01-2024: The EU wants to spy on European's Internet use. [Brownstone]
03-01-2024: Facial recognition systems in the US. [Schneier] [Ban Facial Recognition]
2024 – Five Eyes Spying
25-04-2024: Australia wants "accountable encryption". [The Register]
24-04-2024: Now we are supposed to cheer government surveillance? [Brownstone Institute]
18-04-2024: Police can force suspects to unlock phone with biometrics. [Ars Technica]
18-04-2024: Senate advances vote on reauthorizing FISA. [The Verge] [The Verge]
12-04-2024: FISA reauthorised, but without warrant requirement amendment. [The Verge] [The Register]
22-03-2024: Mass surveillance fears over law change plans. [BBC News]
06-03-2024: FBI surveillance through push notifications. [Schneier] [Washington Post]
11-02-2024: US gov funds AI tools for whole-of-Internet surveillance and censorship. [Brownstone Institute]
09-02-2024: FBI requests warrantless spying powers to combat China. [The Register]
25-01-2024: NSA buys up Americans' browser records. [The Register] [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [US Senate PDF]
08-01-2024: X loses fight to discolse federal surveillance. [Ars Technica]
2023 – News / Articles
15-12-2023: Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people. [Ars Technica]
15-12-2023: Google will stop collecting Maps location data so police can't access it. [ExtremeTech]
06-12-2023: Spying through push notifications. [Schneier] [Reuters] [ExtremeTech] [Ars Technica]
05-12-2023: The Internet enabled mass surveillance - AI will enable mass spying. [Schneier]
13-11-2023: EU's new digital identity wallet: security or tyranny? [Brownstone Institute]
06-11-2023: Every car is a smart car - and a privacy nightmare. [Engadget] [Schneier] [Mozilla]
26-10-2023: Cure53 validates Tor Browser's robust security. [Restore Privacy]
17-10-2023: The post-Cold War origins of the surveillance state. [Brownstone Institute]
30-09-2023: EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox. [The Register]
07-09-2023: Google builds user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome. [Ars Technica]
06-09-2023: Mozilla: Modern cars are a privacy nightmare. [The Verge] [Engadget] [Schneier]
25-08-2023: Europe's tough new rules for Big Tech. [The Register]
15-08-2023: ProtonMail complied with almost 6000 data requests in 2022 - is it still secure and private? [Restore Privacy]
12-08-2023: Veilid - a secure P2P network. [The Register]
07-08-2023: AI model can listen to your keystrokes with 95% accuracy. [ExtremeTech] [Schneier] [Ars Technica]
12-07-2023: How to completely erase yourself from the Internet. [Android Police]
10-07-2023: France approves policy spying on phones. [The Register] [Schneier]
05-07-2023: E2E encryption: should big tech be able to read people's messages? [BBC News]
03-07-2023: Self-driving cars are surveillance cameras on wheels. [Schneier] [Bloomberg]
16-05-2023: Microsoft scanning inside password-protected zip files. [Ars Technica]
21-04-2023: Mullvad VPN - police failed to find any user data. [The Verge]
03-04-2023: Mullvad VPN partners with Tor Project to release new browser. [Restore Privacy]
01-04-2023: TorKameleon: strengthening Tor against deanonymization attacks. [Restore Privacy]
19-02-2023: Germany raises red flags about Palantir’s big data dragnet. [Ars Technica]
14-02-2023: Security study of 10 million VPN servers raises worrying issues. [Restore Privacy]
08-02-2023: Windows 11 collects and awful lot of telemetry about your PC. [ExtremeTech]
06-02-2023: How to remote yourself from the internet and from people search sites. [Graham Cluley]
09-01-2023: Identifying people using cell phone location data. [Schneier]
2023 – Five Eyes Spying
18-12-2023: Police get medical records without a warrant. [Schneier] [Ars Technica]
27-11-2023: Secret White House warrantless surveillance programme. [Schneier] [Wired]
18-10-2023: Analysis of Intellexa’s Predator spyware. [Schneier] [Amnesty]
22-08-2023: Applying AI to license plate surveillance. [Schneier] [Forbes]
31-07-2023: White House: losing Section 702 spy powers would be one of the 'worst intelligence failures'. [The Register]
31-07-2023: FBI investigation reveals that it was unknowingly using NSO-backed spyware. [Engadget]
19-07-2023: UK set to amend encrypted message scanning plans. [BBC News]
05-07-2023: FBI seized database of social media anarchist collective. [Restore Privacy]
30-06-2023: The US is spying on the UN Secretary General. [Schneier] [Washington Post]
20-06-2023: How the FBI uncovered the IP address of a Tor hidden service. [Restore Privacy]
20-06-2023: US Government possesses intimate data on nearly everyone. [ExtremeTech]
09-06-2023: FISA Section 702 critical to spy on (protect) Americans. [The Register]
08-06-2023: Paragon Solutions spyware. [Schneier]
06-06-2023: Snowden ten years later. [Schneier] [The Register]
30-05-2023: The FBI as an APT - and what to do about it. [The Register]
26-05-2023: US government pushing spyware to other countries. [The Register]
24-05-2023: Supreme Court leaves warrantless camera surveillance an open book. [The Register]
22-05-2023: FBI abused spy law 280k times. [The Register] [Ars Technica]
02-05-2023: FBI adjusts warrantless search stats. [The Register]
10-03-2023: Congressman confronts FBI over unlawful search. [Ars Technica]
09-03-2023: FBI admits to buying location data on Americans. [Ars Technica]
22-02-2023: NSA’s “state secrets” defense kills lawsuit challenging Internet surveillance. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
12-02-2023: The FBI’s most controversial surveillance tool is under threat. [Ars Technica]
2022 – News / Articles
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]
2022 – Five Eyes Spying
12-11-2022: FBI considered Pegasus spyware in criminal investigations. [Engadget] [ExtremeTech]
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]
2021 – News / Articles
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]
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]
2021 – Five Eyes Spying
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]
2020 – News / Articles
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]
2020 – Five Eyes Spying
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]
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]
2019 – News / Articles
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]
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]
2019 – Five Eyes Spying
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]
2018 – News / Articles
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]
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]
2018 – Five Eyes Spying
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]
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]
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]
2017 – News / Articles
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]
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]
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]
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: 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]
2017 – Five Eyes Spying
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: 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]
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]
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] [BBC News]
21-04-2017: Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools. [The Register]
26-04-2017: NSA backdoor detected on >55,000 Windows boxes can now be remotely removed. [Ars Technica]
07-04-2017: Judge invalidates FBI mass hacking warrant over jurisdiction, particularity issues. [THG]
05-04-2017: NY court slaps down Facebook's attempt to keep accounts secret from search warrants. [The Register]
04-04-2017: New bill would crack down on border phone searches without warrants. [The Verge]
03-04-2017: More stingray action in Canada, perhaps foreign this time. [PocketNow]
03-04-2017: FBI paid Geek Squad ‘informants’ to search computers for illegal material. [The Verge] [Gizmodo]
18-05-2017: Judge: don't gripe if you hand your PC to Geek Squad and they rat you out to the Feds. [The Register]
30-03-2017: How many NSA spy hubs are scooping up your Internet data? [Ars Technica]
28-03-2017: US Customs sued for information about border phone searches. [The Register]
27-03-2017: FBI's facial recognition database is dangerously inaccurate. [Engadget]
26-03-2017: UK wants backdoor for WhatsApp encryption. [The Register] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald]
27-03-2017: Encryption is a good thing. [Graham Cluley]
27-03-2017: UK digital minister praises 'crucial role' of encryption. [The Register]
22-03-2017: Congress is about to give away your online privacy. [Wired]
22-03-2017: The Senate prepares to send Internet privacy down a black hole. [Wired]
23-03-2017: Senate agrees to let carriers use your data however they want. [Engadget] [Lifehacker] [The Register] [Engadget]
28-03-2017: VPNs won't save you from Congress' internet privacy giveaway. [Wired]
28-03-2017: For sale: Your private browsing history. [Ars Technica]
30-03-2017: What is a VPN? [Lifehacker]
30-03-2017: Post-FCC privacy rules, should you VPN? [Krebs]
04-04-2017: FCC privacy rules repealed, but ISPs' "fairness" argument is weak. [THG]
05-04-2017: VPNs might not be all that secure. [NZ Herald]
22-03-2017: Police 'persistently' breach data protection laws with police tech. [The Register]
21-03-2017: UK Home Office admits it's preparing to accept EU ruling on surveillance. [The Register]
14-03-2017: FBI’s methods to spy on journalists should remain classified, judge rules. [Ars Technica]
14-03-2017: NSA routinely monitors Americans' communications without warrants. [The Intercept]
12-03-2017: How the FBI used Geek Squad to increase secret public surveillance. [HardOCP] [OC Weekly]
10-03-2017: The Wikipedia for spies - and where it goes from here. [Wired]
10-03-2017: The US auto-scanned visitors' social media profiles -- it didn't work properly. [The Register]
08-03-2017: FBI boss: 'Memories are not absolutely private in America'. [The Register] [Engadget]
02-03-2017: US Congress to NSA: How many Americans do you illegally spy on? [The Register]
01-03-2017: Republicans want to let ISPs secretly sell your data. [Gizmodo]
24-02-2017: Palantir and the NSA. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
24-02-2017: Overhaul of legislation on spy agencies to go ahead. [NZ Herald]
22-02-2017: NSA using cyberattack for defense. [Schneier]
17-02-2017: UK Snoopers' Charter gagging order drafted for London Internet Exchange directors. [The Register]
22-02-2017: LINX members vote no to constitution tweak. [The Register]
16-02-2017: GPS act aims to stop warrantless smartphone tracking done with cell-site simulators. [THG]
12-02-2017: American Spies: how we got to age of mass surveillance without even trying. [Ars Technica] [American Spies]
08-02-2017: US visitors may have to reveal social media passwords to enter country. [Ars Technica] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
22-02-2017: What to do when border officials ask for your passwords. [Ars Technica]
01-02-2017: Secret documents reveal Trump inherits FBI with vast hidden powers. [The Intercept]
30-01-2017: DC police surveillance cameras were infected with ransomware before inauguration [Ars Technica]
28-01-2017: Twitter discloses two far-reaching FBI data requests. [Engadget]
20-01-2017: CIA boss wants a big database of surveillance on citizens and foreigners. [The Register]
16-01-2017: Cloudflare's experience with a National Security Letter. [Schneier] [Cloudflare] [TechCrunch]
13-01-2017: Obama expands the NSA's ability to share data with other agencies. [Engadget] [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
11-01-2017: FBI takes gag out of CloudFlare's mouth after three-year legal battle. [The Register] [THG] [Engadget]
06-01-2017: Australia telcos warn: Opening metadata access will create a 'honeypot' for lawyers. [The Register]
2016 – News / Articles
23-12-2016: Russian military using smartphones to track troop movements. [Schneier] [CrowdStrike]
20-12-2016: How to safely delete private data forever. [Gizmodo]
20-12-2016: Egypt has blocked encrypted messaging app Signal. [Engadget]
21-12-2016: Encrypted chat app Signal circumvents Egyptian government censorship. [Engadget] [Wired] [The Register]
28-12-2016: How Signal is evading censorship. [Schneier]
30-12-2016: Encrypted chat app Signal sidesteps censorship in Cuba and Oman. [Engadget]
19-12-2016: Turkey blocks Tor's anonymity network. [Engadget] [BBC News]
19-12-2016: Cellphones the most ubiquitous surveillance device ever. [Stuff]
02-12-2016: 2016 claims another victim: Your privacy. [Engadget]
12-11-2016: China's vast Internet prison. [NZ Herald]
03-11-2016: How to block ultrasonic signals you didn't know were tracking you. [Wired] [Schneier]
03-11-2016: Google linking anonymous browser tracking with identifiable tracking. [Schneier] [ProPublica]
01-11-2016: This office printer is actually a rogue cell tower. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
28-10-2016: Eavesdropping on typing over VoIP. [Schneier] [Cornell arXiv: PDF]
27-10-2016: The new FCC privacy rules are here, and nobody is happy. [The Register]
24-10-2016: Every LTE call, text, can be intercepted, blacked out, hacker finds. [The Register]
20-10-2016: NSA, GCHQ and even Donald Trump are all after your data. [The Register]
19-10-2016: How to track your kids without freaking them out. [Gizmodo]
18-10-2016: Intelligence oversight and how it can fail. [Schneier]
13-10-2016: Euro politicians are hyping the terror threat to steal your privacy. [The Register]
12-10-2016: Building on surveillance reform. [Google]
04-10-2016: Decryption mandates and global internet freedom. [Russ White] [Hoover Institution]
28-09-2016: Australia wants law to ban de-anonymisation of anonymous data. [The Register]
27-09-2016: Using neural networks to identify blurred faces. [Schneier] [Motherboard]
23-09-2016: NSA hushed up zero-day spyware tool losses for three years. [The Register]
16-09-2016: DE-CIX - world's largest internet exchange sues Germany over mass surveillance. [The Register]
05-09-2016: German spies violated law, must delete XKeyscore database -- watchdog. [Ars Technica]
10-08-2016: FBI chief Comey: “We have never had absolute privacy”. [Ars Technica]
02-08-2016: Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams. [Graham Cluley] [Ars Technica]
29-07-2016: Sniffing and censoring in real life. [Russ White] [Medium]
28-07-2016: Don't use a VPN in the UAE – unless you wanna risk jail and a $545,000 fine. [The Register]
21-07-2016: The not-crazy person’s guide to online privacy. [HardOCP] [Bloomberg]
27-06-2016: Snowden: Russian data collection plans 'dangerous'. [BBC News] [Engadget]
08-07-2016: Edward Snowden speaks out against new Russian law. [Engadget]
09-07-2016: "Dark day" in Russia after president introduces new surveillance laws. [HardOCP] [The Independent]
22-06-2016: The Great Firewall of China gets stronger. [Russ White] [The Stream]
29-05-2016: The privacy of telephone metadata. [Russ White] [PNAS]
26-05-2016: Watch Edward Snowden teach Vice how to make a phone ‘go black’. [Wired]
29-04-2016: New study shows mass surveillance breeds meekness, fear and self-censorship. [The Intercept]
18-04-2016: How hackers eavesdropped on a US Congressman using only his phone number. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
06-04-2016: Privacy and secrecy are not the same. [Russ White] [Just Security]
01-04-2016: How we're unwittingly letting robots censor the Web. [NZ Herald]
31-03-2016: The government (probably) requested Reddit user data last year. [Gizmodo] [Reddit] [BBC News] [Engadget] [ExtremeTech] [Russ White] [Just Security]
31-03-2016: Is your step counter spying on you? [ReadWriteWeb]
29-03-2016: Mass surveillance silences minority opinions. [Schneier]
23-03-2016: The FCC’s subtractive privacy rules. [Russ White] [Heartland Institute]
21-03-2016: Snowden's tips on personal privacy in a wired world. [Stuff]
18-03-2016: What is a VPN, and why should you be using one? [Graham Cluley]
16-03-2016: Google adds worldwide HTTPS info to transparency report. [The Register]
14-03-2016: This massive VPN comparison spreadsheet helps you choose the best for you. [Lifehacker]
11-03-2016: Your browser's private ,ode isn't as secret as you think. [Gizmodo]
04-03-2016: Google endorses US VPN providers with 'right to be forgotten' expansion. [The Register] [HardOCP] [Google Europe] [Engadget]
08-03-2016: Google extends right-to-be-forgotten rules to all search sites. [Ars Technica]
02-03-2016: US debates a world without privacy. [BBC News]
01-03-2016: Is your smartphone listening to you? [BBC News]
03-02-2016: Security vs surveilance. [Schneier]
27-01-2016: Ban internet anonymity – says top US Homeland Security official. [The Register]
27-01-2016: How to make your own NSA bulk surveillance system. [Wired]
27-01-2016: In this Facebook and Google-owned world, it's time to rethink privacy. [The Register]
06-01-2016: The father of online anonymity has a plan to end the crypto war. [Wired]
2016 – Five Eyes Spying
20-12-2016: The Investigatory Powers Act explained. [Engadget]
09-12-2016: NSA and GCHQ spying on in-flight mobile phone use. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
09-12-2016: Extensive GCHQ spying throughout Africa. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
02-12-2016: Canada wants software backdoors, mandatory decryption capability and records storage. [THG]
29-11-2016: Investigatory Powers Act signed into UK law by Queen. [The Register] [Engadget]
29-11-2016: What the internet surveillance law means to you. [BBC News]
06-12-2016: The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the State to tell lies in court. [The Register]
29-11-2016: FBI and NSA poised to gain new surveillance powers. [DC Knowledge] [The Register] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [Reuters]
02-12-2016: FBI joins Rule 41 in setting troubling precedent. [ExtremeTech]
24-11-2016: Snowden can be asked to testify in person in German NSA probe. [Ars Technica]
23-11-2016: Twitter to police: stop mining tweets for surveillance. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
17-11-2016: Snoopers' Charter, UK’s most privacy invasive law passed by parliament. [THG] [Engadget]
01-11-2016: New leak may show if you were hacked by the NSA [Ars Technica]
31-10-2016: America has one month to stop the FBI getting its global license to hack. [The Register]
26-10-2016: Say goodbye to the fingerprint; it's your digital footprint the FBI wants. [Stuff]
24-10-2016: UK spies paid a New Zealand firm to help tap key internet lines. [Engadget]
18-10-2016: Cops serve warrant to enter property, demand everyone's fingerprints to unlock phone. [Graham Cluley] [HardOCP] [Forbes] [Ars Technica]
17-10-2016: UK spy agencies broke privacy rules says tribunal. [BBC News] [Graham Cluley] [The Register] [THG] [Engadget]
10-10-2016: 'Cyber terrorist' trades cufflinks for handcuffs. [Graham Cluley]
10-10-2016: UK police forces own IMSI grabbers, but keeping quiet on use. [The Register]
07-10-2016: There's an NSA data center in the UK. [DC Knowledge] [The Intercept]
04-10-2016: FBI demands Signal user data, but there’s not much to hand over. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
04-10-2016: Yahoo secretly scanned users' emails for the NSA and FBI. [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [Graham Cluley] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Reuters] [Lifehacker] [Wired] [Schneier] [Reuters]
05-10-2016: Spark seeks information on US spying after Yahoo scanned emails. [Stuff]
06-10-2016: Yahoo claims Reuters NSA scanning report was 'misleading,' not false. [THG]
08-10-2016: Yahoo email scanning done with a Linux kernel module. [Engadget]
14-10-2016: Yahoo applies for patent on mass surveillance system the Soviets would envy. [ExtremeTech]
14-10-2016: End-to-end encryption could’ve protected Yahoo mail users from 2014 data breach and NSA spying. [THG]
14-10-2016: US Congress demands answers from Yahoo. [The Register] [Ars Technica]
20-10-2016: Yahoo begs US spymaster Clapper: Spill the beans on secret email snooping. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
28-09-2016: Upstream surveillance. [Russ White] [Just Security]
20-09-2016: Essays on the NSA's "Upstream" data collection under Section 702. [Schneier] [Just Security: article 1, article 2]
15-09-2016: DoJ watchdog: it's OK for the FBI's fake hacks to hack suspects' PCs. [The Register]
14-09-2016: GCHQ floats plan to share its DNS filters. [The Register]
06-09-2016: New Snowden leaks unravel mystery behind NSA's UK base. [Engadget] [The Intercept]
06-09-2016: Spy equipment from Cobham. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [Document Cloud]
03-09-2016: EFF to court: US government must inform people that it's accessing their emails. [Voxy]
02-09-2016: Police wants GCHQ-style spy powers to hack cybercrims. [The Register]
27-08-2016: Congressman to FCC: Fix phone network flaw that allows eavesdropping. [Ars Technica]
21-08-2016: Here's how the NSA spied on Cisco firewalls for years. [Engadget]
19-08-2016: How the NSA snooped on encrypted Internet traffic for a decade. [Ars Technica]
19-08-2016: Internet spying powers backed by review. [BBC News]
15-08-2016: Report reveals identity of NSA and PRISM surveillance target. [Engadget]
15-08-2016: New GCSB bill allows spying on Kiwis. [Stuff] [Stuff]
06-08-2016: Privacy warriors drag GCHQ into Euro human rights court over blanket spying, hacking. [The Register]
22-08-2016: Review concludes UK bulk surveillance powers are necessary. [Engadget]
02-08-2016: Judge blasts FBI for bugging courthouse, throws out 200 hours of recordings. [Ars Technica]
02-08-2016: InternetNZ Easy Transparency aims to help identify mass surveillance in NZ. [Geekzone] [InternetNZ]
01-08-2016: Secure email service GhostMail shutting down in fear of being abused. [Graham Cluley]
18-07-2016: Obama wants to give the British permission to read American emails. [Gizmodo] [WSJ]
13-07-2016: An FBI 'pilot' collected over 434,000 iris scans since 2013. [Engadget] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [The Verge]
26-06-2016: US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border. [HardOCP] [The Hill] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [NZ Herald] [HardOCP] [The Verge]
16-06-2016: Lawmakers want to stop warrantless "backdoor" spying on Americans. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
22-06-2016: US Senate strikes down open-access FBI hacking warrant by just one vote. [The Register]
24-06-2016: Judge rules FBI can hack any time, any, place, anywhere. [The Register] [Engadget]
15-06-2016: FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret. [Ars Technica]
15-06-2016: FBI has 411M photos in its facial recognition system. [HardOCP] [ZDNet] [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
13-06-2016: US plans intervention in EU vs Facebook case caused by NSA snooping. [The Register] [Ars Technica]
10-06-2016: The NSA wants to spy on the Internet of Things. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [The Intercept]
09-06-2016: US intelligence wants real-time behavior monitoring software. [Engadget]
08-06-2016: Surveillance forestalls more 'draconian' police powers. [The Register]
09-06-2016: Britain passes internet spy bill. [Stuff]
20-06-2016: Snoopers' Charter 'goes too far' says retired Met assistant commissioner. [The Register]
07-06-2016: FBI seeks expanded National Security Letter to include browser history and more. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [The Register] [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
11-06-2016: Plan to give FBI warrantless access to browser histories axed. [The Register]
06-06-2016: Letters prove GCHQ bends laws to spy at will. So what's the point of privacy safeguards? [The Register]
06-06-2016: Privacy is disappearing. [Russ White] [Intellectual Takeout]
02-06-2016: Investigatory Powers Bill: Privacy concerns 'could be met'. [BBC News]
01-06-2016: FBI chiefs want databases exempt from privacy protections. [Engadget]
31-05-2016: All your disk image are belong to us, says appeals court. [Ars Technica]
31-05-2016: Cops can easily get hundreds of days of location data, appeals court rules. [Ars Technica]
24-05-2016: FBI wants to keep its biometric database secret. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
23-05-2016: Geek Squad employee allegedly searched PCs for the FBI. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Consumerist]
16-05-2016: Spied upon by GCHQ? You'll need proof before a court will hear you. [The Register]
16-05-2016: Everything we know about how the FBI hacks people. [Wired]
12-05-2016: FBI director is upset you can communicate securely on WhatsApp. [Gizmodo] [Politico] [Ars Technica]
09-05-2016: Twitter blocks US spies from analyzing your tweets. [HardOCP] [Engadget]
30-04-2016: US surveillance court didn't reject a single spy order last year. [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
04-05-2016: CIA and NSA doubled their searches for Americans' data in 2 years. [Engadget]
10-05-2016: Warrantless spying on Americans more than doubled since 2013: oversight report. [ExtremeTech]
10-06-2016: Congress calls for change to NSA spying law. [The Register]
29-04-2016: Documenting the chilling effects of NSA surveillance. [Schneier] [Reuters] [Washington Post]
28-04-2016: Supreme Court approves feds' request for greater hacking powers. [Engadget] [The Register] [BBC News] [ExtremeTech] [THG] [Gizmodo]
27-04-2016: Why you should care about the coming email privacy law . [Gizmodo]
28-04-2016: Email privacy bill passes Congress with flying colors [Engadget]
23-04-2016: Congress asks the NSA how often it spies on Americans. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [Russ White] [MarketWatch]
21-04-2016: How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases. [The Register]
20-04-2016: FBI's PRISM slurping is 'unconstitutional' – and America's secret spy court is OK with that. [The Register]
17-04-2016: Comprehensive takedown of mass surveillance. [Gizmodo] [YouTube]
15-04-2016: The CIA is investing in social media surveillance even more. [Engadget]
14-04-2016: Microsoft sues DoJ over 'unconstitutional' secret data searches. [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald]
13-04-2016: US House Committee approves bill requiring warrants for e-mail. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
02-04-2016: FBI offers crypto assistance to local cops: “We are in this together". [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
31-03-2016: Why do the Feds usually try to unlock phones? It’s drugs, not terrorism. [Wired]
31-03-2016: UK cops tell suspect to hand over crypto keys in US hacking case. [Ars Technica]
31-03-2016: Spying without a warrant: Spy agencies utilise new power under anti-terror legislation. [Stuff]
28-03-2016: A 1976 congressional report on surveillance. [Schneier] [US Archive PDF]
23-03-2016: Representatives say NSA must end plans to expand domestic spying. [Ars Technica]
22-03-2016: The Investigatory Powers Bill - it's time to take a closer look. [Graham Cluley]
21-03-2016: Brennan Center report on NSA overseas spying and executive order 12333. [Schneier]
14-03-2016: The Feds are prepping strict rules to protect your online privacy. [Wired]
14-03-2016: John Key: Undercover spies can't break laws, but may need 'different laws'. [Stuff]
09-03-2016: Expanding spy agency powers 'significant erosion of Kiwis' privacy'. [Stuff]
08-03-2016: Secret court approves classified rule change on how FBI can use NSA data. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [The Register] [ExtremeTech] [HardOCP] [The Guardian] [Washington Post] [Privacy SOS]
26-02-2016: Obama administration closing in on rules to let NSA share more freely with FBI, CIA. [Ars Technica]
17-02-2016: Five Eyes nations must purge terrorists from the web, says Theresa May. [The Register]
14-02-2016: The government wants to listen in on your smart home. [Wired]
13-02-2016: Tribunal rules computer hacking by GCHQ is not illegal. [BBC News]
09-02-2016: UK's Intelligence And Security Committee heavily criticizes Investigatory Powers Bill. [THG] [The Register]
09-02-2016: Large-scale FBI hacking. [Schneier] [Motherboard]
05-02-2016: Brit spies want rights to wiretap and snoop on US companies' servers. [The Register]
29-01-2016: NSA, GCHQ used open source software to spy on Israeli, Syrian drones. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
28-01-2016: NSA’s top hacking boss explains how to protect your network from his attack squads. [The Register] [Wired] [Schneier]
27-01-2016: Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP. [The Register]
22-01-2016: UK government promoting backdoor-enabled voice encryption protocol. [Schneier]
21-01-2016: The NSA can spy on you with or without encryption. [Gizmodo]
21-01-2016: California lawmaker wants to ban phone encryption in 2017. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [ZDNet] [Ars Technica]
19-01-2016: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [Engadget]
21-01-2016: GCHQ spies quashed this phone encryption because it was too good against snoopers. [The Register]
14-01-2016: The NSA releases its first transparency report under the US Freedom Act. [Engadget]
14-01-2016: Investor to AT&T – give us a peek at your NSA data dealings. [The Register]
06-01-2016: How the US is playing both ends on data privacy. [Schneier] [Foreign Affairs]
06-01-2016: Mass-surveillance 'undermines security' and failed to stop 9/11 attacks, says ex-NSA officer. [Graham Cluley]
06-01-2016: GCHQ mass spying will 'cost lives in Britain,' warns ex-NSA tech chief. [The Register]
06-01-2016: Draft super-snoop bill's data protection Code of Practice is a blank canvas. [The Register]
05-01-2016: NSA spies on Israeli prime minister. [Schneier]
05-01-2016: A redaction re-visited: NSA targeted “the two leading” encryption chips. [The Intercept]
03-01-2016: Most Americans are OK with warrantless Internet surveillance. [HardOCP] [Softpedia]
2015 – News / Articles
31-12-2015: Forget anonymity, we can remember you wholesale with machine intel, hackers warned. [The Register]
24-12-2015: Internet freedom is actively dissolving in America. [HardOCP] [Motherboard]
21-12-2015: The medieval origins of mass surveillance. [Schneier] [Lapham's Quarterly]
21-12-2015: New HTTP error code 451 to signal censorship. [The Register] [THG]
17-12-2015: China tells the world to respect its censorship. [Engadget]
13-12-2015: Tor's new executive director is a digital privacy legend. [Engadget]
12-12-2015: Your VPN may be worthless. [Engadget]
06-12-2015: Kazakhstan will require internet surveillance back doors. [Engadget]
04-12-2015: Blackberry leaves Pakistan rather than provide a government backdoor. [Schneier] [cNet]
30-11-2015: Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases all up for grabs without a warrant. [The Register]
30-11-2015: A history of privacy. [Schneier] [The New Yorker]
21-11-2015: How to baffle web trackers by obfuscating your movements online. [Wired]
18-11-2015: BlackBerry believes in encryption backdoors - believes it's good for business. [Graham Cluley]
16-11-2015: Germany scales back its spying while other nations want more. [Engadget]
16-11-2015: Edward Snowden thinks you should use an ad blocker. [Stuff]
12-11-2015: The Edward Snowden guide to practical privacy. [The Register] [The Intercept]
08-11-2015: FCC won’t force websites to honor "Do Not Track". [HardOCP] [ComputerWorld]
05-11-2015: The effects of surveillance on the victims. [Schneier]
02-11-2015: Signal, the Snowden-approved crypto app, comes to Android. [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [PocketNow]
02-11-2015: Kim Dotcom is building his own private internet. [Stuff]
29-10-2015: Tor just launched the easiest app yet for anonymous, encrypted IM. [Wired] [Engadget] [The Register] [BBC News] [Ars Technica]
27-10-2015: The need for transparency in surveillance. [Schneier]
23-10-2015: EU net neutrality up for a vote next week. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
22-10-2015: 'Get a VPN to defeat metadata retention' is good advice. Sometimes. [The Register]
21-10-2015: Microsoft deems privacy a fundamental right, asks U.S. And EU governments to obey it. [THG]
21-10-2015: German infosec bureaucrats want mail providers to encrypt. [The Register]
15-10-2015: How French spies can silently command Siri, Google Now on phones. [The Register] [Wired]
14-10-2015: Encryption is the only guarantee of data destruction in the cloud. [Graham Cluley]
13-10-2015: A new way for tech firms to fight unlock orders. [Wired]
12-10-2015: Where do major tech companies stand on encryption? [Gizmodo]
08-10-2015: Post-Stuxnet hack group builds formidable LinkedIn phish network. [The Register]
07-10-2015: Your boarding pass has a ton of personal information on it: shred it. [Lifehacker] [Krebs] [Schneier]
06-10-2015: Thanks, or blame, Snowden for Europe's big privacy ruling. [Wired]
28-09-2015: How to send and receive encrypted email for free. [ExtremeTech]
23-09-2015: Snowden treaty asks nations to resist mass surveillance. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [HardOCP]
22-09-2015: India withdraws controversial encryption policy. [BBC News]
17-09-2015: New crypto tool makes anonymous surveys truly anonymous. [Wired]
14-09-2015: How to avoid surveillance... with your phone. [TED YouTube]
09-09-2015: End mass snooping and protect whistleblowers, MEPs tell EU. [The Register]
01-09-2015: What can you learn from metadata? [Schneier] [ABC: part 1, part 2]
31-08-2015: The best browser extensions that protect your privacy. [Lifehacker]
27-08-2015: German spies sold out citizens' data to NSA in exchange for XKeyscore. [The Register] [Schneier] [Ars Technica]
26-08-2015: Read Julian Assange's introduction to The Wikileaks Files. [Gizmodo]
24-08-2015: How to stop a domestic abuser stalking you via your smartphone. [Graham Cluley]
21-08-2015: SS7 phone-switch flaw enabled surveillance. [Schneier] [Engadget]
17-08-2015: Anti-privacy unkillable super-cookies spreading around the world. [The Register]
12-08-2015: The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us. [Ars Technica]
10-08-2015: The government shouldn't be the reason you encrypt your data. [Graham Cluley]
29-07-2015: Bizarre high-tech kidnapping. [Schneier] [Wired]
28-07-2015: How the way you type can shatter anonymity -- even on Tor. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
24-07-2015: French surveillance law implicates ISPs, web hosts. [DC Knowledge]
22-07-2015: Pakistan wants to copy GCHQ and eavesdrop on everyone. [The Register]
22-07-2015: Malaysia admits to censoring the Internet. [Gizmodo]
14-07-2015: Google's hidden data reveals details of 'right to be forgotten' requests. [Engadget] [The Guardian]
10-07-2015: Organisational doxing. [Schneier]
09-07-2015: UK politicos easily pwned on insecure Wi-Fi networks. [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
08-07-2015: Holland: laid-back, chilled, and monitoring everything. [The Register]
04-07-2015: France evicted from moral high ground over spying revelations. [Engadget]
26-06-2015: Fueled by Snowden and Apple, private search engine DuckDuckGo rapidly grows. [Ars Technica]
24-06-2015: With the French NSA leak, Wikileaks is back. [Wired] [Schneier]
29-06-2015: WikiLeaks docs show NSA's 10-year economic espionage campaign against France. [The Register]
21-06-2015: Social media debunked. [NZ Herald]
18-06-2015: How Facebook is censoring content in the United States. [Gizmodo] [EFF]
18-06-2015: Counterfeit social media accounts. [Schneier] [The Week]
14-06-2015: Amazon turns up spectacularly late to 'transparency' party. [The Register]
11-06-2015: 3 privacy tradeoffs that might be worth it. [Wired]
11-06-2015: Decrypted WhatsApp chats laid groundwork for Belgian terror raids. [The Register]
08-06-2015: Deleting your browser history could land you in court. [HardOCP] [The Denver Channel]
08-06-2015: What to do when you lose your phone. [PocketNow]
06-06-2015: Spy-grade gadgets to protect your privacy online. [Stuff]
03-06-2015: China cracks down further on VPNs as censorship intensifies. [The Register]
01-06-2015: New privacy app takes a page from NSA technology. [HardOCP] [Yahoo News]
28-05-2015: UN says encryption “necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom". [Ars Technica]
25-05-2015: How one mayor struggles with balancing privacy and surveillance. [Ars Technica]
23-05-2015: Americans value privacy, but don't trust tech companies to provide it. [Gizmodo] [Wired]
21-05-2015: Flawed Android factory reset leaves crypto and login keys ripe for picking. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
21-05-2015: ISPs really don’t want to follow new customer data privacy rules. [Ars Technica]
19-05-2015: Spyware - required by law on South Korean teenagers' smartphones. [Graham Cluley]
17-05-2015: Use privacy software if you want to be safe from Facebook, warns watchdog. [Ars Technica]
15-05-2015: IdentityTheft.gov shows you how to recover from a stolen identity. [Lifehacker] [identitytheft.gov]
15-05-2015: Facebook "tramples European privacy law". [HardOCP] [Reuters]
25-05-2015: European regulators tackle Facebook over privacy. [HardOCP] [Financial Review]
13-05-2015: What Google knows about your web searches. [Intego]
13-05-2015: BitTorrent's secure messaging app arrives. [The Register]
08-05-2015: 1975 article on Internet spying not written by time traveler, probably. [Gizmodo]
08-05-2015: A new court ruling means that privacy doesn't require secrecy. [Gizmodo]
06-05-2015: An example of cellphone metadata forensic surveillance. [Schneier, Schneier]
06-05-2015: French parliament approves new surveillance rules. [BBC News]
05-05-2015: Police want your PC? Brick it with a USB stick before they probe it. [The Register] [Gizmodo] [Graham Cluley]
04-05-2015: Internet censorship, kill switches violate human rights law. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
29-04-2015: Remote proctoring and surveillance. [Schneier] [NYT]
28-04-2015: China censors Facebook.net, blocks sites with “Like” buttons. [Krebs]
25-04-2015: Google and Facebook come out against government spying. [Engadget]
14-04-2015: The future of privacy. [Schneier]
13-04-2015: Ultimatum for China website: improve censorship. [NZ Herald]
12-04-2015: Russia’s Internet censor reminds citizens that some memes are illegal. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
31-03-2015: Survey of Americans' privacy habits post-Snowden. [Schneier] [PRC]
26-03-2015: Yahoo dishes out new transparency report. [THG]
25-03-2015: Snowden urges cloud providers to take action against mass surveillance. [DC Knowledge]
20-03-2015: Snowden-approved: The ‘Citizenfour’ hacker’s toolkit. [ExtremeTech]
16-03-2015: Snowden tells tech bigwigs: it's up to you to thwart mass surveillance. [The Register]
13-03-2015: NYPD caught wikiwashing Wikipedia entries on police brutality. [BoingBoing] [Capital] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
17-03-2015: NYPD officers who wikiwashed police brutality pages will get wrist-slaps. [BoingBoing] [DNAinfo]
12-03-2015: The changing economics of surveillance. [Schneier] [The Guardian]
11-03-2015: The human cost of phone hacking. [Graham Cluley]
05-03-2015: Now corporate drones are spying on cell phones. [Schneier] [VentureBeat]
04-03-2015: EFF: Snowden, NSA spying, hard drive malware... a UN privacy watchdog is needed. [The Register] [EFF PDF]
02-03-2015: Would you trust 'spyproof' mobes made in Putin's Russia? [The Register]
02-03-2015: Silent Circle revamps secure smartphone. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
01-03-2015: VPNs: which ones value your privacy? [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak]
24-02-2015: AT&T charging customers to not spy on them. [Schneier] [The Guardian] [GigaOM]
23-02-2015: Drones are spying on cell phone signals now. [Gizmodo]
19-02-2015: Spies can track you just by watching your phone’s power use. [Wired] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
17-02-2015: Smart devices think you're 'too lazy' to opt out of privacy defaults. [HardOCP] [CBC News]
16-02-2015: Dutch DPA says government's data retention plans still illegal. [The Register]
13-02-2015: Russia might ban Tor and virtual private networks. [ExtremeTech]
11-02-2015: The consumer data revolt is coming. [HardOCP] [Bloomberg]
11-02-2015: Steal the hackers' thunder by revealing yourself online. [Stuff]
10-02-2015: How your travels around the Internet expose the way you think. [Wired]
10-02-2015: Privacy is a myth on the Internet. [HardOCP] [Medium]
09-02-2015: Surveillance scandal blowing up Macedonian government. [BoingBoing] [BalkanInsight] [Engadget]
08-02-2015: Anonymity is dead and other lessons from the Silk Road trial. [Engadget]
07-05-2015: The real impact of surveillance. [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group]
05-02-2015: Say goodbye to privacy. [Wired]
04-02-2015: Germany's BND muscles in on metadata mass surveillance. [The Register]
29-01-2015: Dropbox now reports when non-US governments want your data. [Engadget]
29-01-2015: Mozilla dusts off old servers, lights up Tor relays. [The Register]
27-01-2015: Here is EFF's master plan for ending global mass surveillance. [Gizmodo] [EFF]
26-01-2015: How to protect your information from the Internet. [Kotaku]
26-01-2015: Google handed over WikiLeaks emails. [Stuff] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [The Register]
24-01-2015: China beefs up Great Firewall, snips off VPN access. [The Register] [Stuff]
23-01-2015: I2P: the super-anonymous network that Silk Road calls home. [Gizmodo]
21-01-2015: Snowden SLAMS iPhone, claims 'special software' tracks users. [The Register]
17-01-2015: Turkey is blackmailing Twitter into censorship -- again. [Gizmodo] [NYT] [Engadget]
18-01-2015: Twitter complies with Turkey's 'national security' blackout demand – blocks newspaper's tweets. [The Register]
27-01-2015: Rather than face ban in Turkey, Facebook blocks “anti-Islamic” pages. [Ars Technica]
15-01-2015: How to stop data thieves from stealing information off your old gadgets. [Gizmodo]
15-01-2015: The EFF’s secure messaging scorecard. Which app will you use? [Lumension] [EFF]
14-01-2015: Using encrypted email in Spain? Do not pass go, go directly to jail. [The Register]
13-02-2015: A history of internet spying. [Gizmodo: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5]
13-01-2015: More surveillance won't protect free speech. [Gizmodo]
12-01-2015: The importance of deleting old stuff -- another lesson from the Sony attack. [Ars Technica]
12-01-2015: Leaked Palantir doc reveals uses, specific functions and key clients. [TechCrunch]
11-01-2015: Paris terror attacks: ISPs face pressure to share MORE data with governments. [The Register]
08-01-2015: Browsing in privacy mode isn't as secure as you think. [ReadWriteWeb]
07-01-2015: Traveling with two-factor: how to access your accounts abroad. [Gizmodo]
06-01-2015: With the power of social media growing, the police are now monitoring and criminalising online speech. [The Intercept]
06-01-2015: HTTPS can be set as your super-cookie. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Pro Publica]
16-01-2015: Verizon is still using 'supercookies' to track your browsing whether you like it or not. [Android Police]
06-01-2015: Boffins spy I in your little eye. [The Register]
06-01-2015: Lavabit founder wants to make “dark” e-mail secure by default. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
05-01-2015: Saudi Arabia hires 'ethical hackers' to silence smut slingers. [The Register]
2015 – Five Eyes Spying
31-12-2015: In 2015, promising surveillance cases ran into legal brick walls. [Ars Technica]
30-12-2015: It's amazing the UK Parliament agreed to track 22bn Brits' car trips. Oh right – it didn't. [The Register]
29-12-2015: The NSA spied on Congress, too. [Engadget] [The Intercept] [The Register]
22-12-2015: Apple formally objects to the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [HardOCP] [Engadget]
18-12-2015: Behold, the catalog of cellphone spying gear the feds don’t want you to see. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Wired] [Schneier]
18-12-2015: Why product builders need to worry about CISA. [ReadWriteWeb]
17-12-2015: Canadian live route map highlights vulnerabilities to NSA spying efforts. [The Register] [IXMaps]
14-12-2015: GCHQ creates Github repo, offers graph database. [The Register]
10-12-2015: GCSB 'Cortex' system aimed at ISPs. [NZ Herald]
10-12-2015: GCHQ could 'grab' UK shopping data. [BBC News]
01-12-2015: GCHQ v Privacy International: Computer hacking tribunal showdown begins. [The Register] [Stuff]
01-12-2015: GCHQ can hack your systems at will – thanks to 'soft touch' oversight. [The Register] [THG]
01-12-2015: FBI national security letter details revealed by court. [BBC News] [ExtremeTech] [Engadget]
30-11-2015: Man fighting FBI spying gag order can finally speak after 11-year court battle. [Gizmodo]
28-11-2015: At 11:59pm EST on Saturday, the NSA will stop in-house phone metadata collection. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Reuters] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Stuff]
30-11-2015: The NSA is still spying on you. [Engadget]
27-11-2015: UK ISP boss points out massive technical flaws in Investigatory Powers Bill. [Ars Technica]
20-11-2015: It’s official -- NSA did keep its e-mail metadata program after it “ended” in 2011. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Engadget] [Schneier]
18-11-2015: Overwhelmed NSA surprised to discover its own surveillance goldmine on Venezuela's oil exectuives. [The Intercept]
18-11-2015: US attorney calls for access to Google and Apple phones. [BBC News] [NZ Herald]
13-11-2015: Yes, the NSA worried about whether spying would backfire. [Wired]
11-11-2015: ToR says Feds paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to help unmask users. [THG] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [Gizmodo]
12-11-2015: Why the attack on Tor matters. [Ars Technica]
13-11-2015: FBI: “The allegation that we paid CMU $1M to hack into Tor is inaccurate”. [Ars Technica]
16-11-2015: Did Carnegie Mellon attack Tor for the FBI? [Schneier]
17-11-2015: The million-dollar hole in the FBI 'paying CMU to crack Tor' story. [The Register]
19-11-2015: CMU says FBI came not with cash, but a subpoena. [The Register] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BBC News] [ExtremeTech]
11-11-2015: Appeals court allows NSA bulk phone spying to continue unabated. [Ars Technica]
11-11-2015: UK citizens will have to pay government to spy on them. [The Register]
11-11-2015: Ex-GCHQ chief: Bulk access to internet comms not same as mass surveillance. [The Register]
10-11-2015: GCHQ director blasts free market, says UK must be 'sovereign cryptographic nation'. [The Register]
10-11-2015: Tim Cook: UK crypto backdoors would lead to 'dire consequences'. [The Register]
10-11-2015: Weeks before NSA bulk phone spying ends, US judge (kinda) reins in program. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Wired]
09-11-2015: Here's the little-known legal loophole that permitted mass surveillance in the UK. [The Register]
06-11-2015: MI5 carried out secret mass surveillance for a decade. [Ars Technica]
05-11-2015: Top FBI lawyer: You win, we've given up on encryption backdoors. [The Register]
05-11-2015: FBI official: It’s America’s choice whether we want to be spied on. [Ars Technica]
04-11-2015: GCHQ 'smart collection' would protect MPs from spies, says NSA expert. [The Register]
03-11-2015: UK to ask US tech giants for crypto backdoors. [The Register]
01-11-2015: Theresa May says 'contentious' parts of web surveillance plan dropped. [BBC News]
04-11-2015: Investigatory Powers Bill: ISPs to keep 1yr of your browsing history. [Hexus] [ExtremeTech]
05-11-2015: Encrypt voice calls, says GCHQ's CESG team... using CESG encryption. [The Register]
05-11-2015: UK cyber-spy law takes Snowden's revelations of mass surveillance and sets them in stone. [The Register]
05-11-2015: GCHQ's CESG team's crypto proposal isn't dumb, it's malicious. [The Register]
30-10-2015: Court says it’s legal for NSA to spy on you because Congress says it’s OK. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Engadget]
27-10-2015: Top German official infected by highly advanced spy trojan with NSA ties. [Ars Technica]
24-10-2015: Judge tosses Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit because Wikipedia isn’t big enough. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Engadget]
23-10-2015: 20 years after the first Internet wiretap, the government still sucks at cybersecurity. [Gizmodo]
23-10-2015: DoJ: Apple owns your iPhone's software, so it should have a backdoor. [Engadget]
22-10-2015: CISA blowup: 'Web giants sharing private info isn't about security – it's state surveillance'. [The Register]
27-10-2015: What is CISA? [Gizmodo]
28-10-2015: US Senate approves CISA cyber-spy-law, axes privacy safeguards. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [THG]
21-10-2015: FBI, US g-men tried to snatch DNA results from blood-testing business. [The Register]
21-10-2015: Warrantless cellphone data collection spotlighted on Capitol Hill. [PocketNow]
17-10-2015: The NYPD doesn't want you to know about its X-ray spy vans. [Wired]
14-10-2015: GCHQ can and will spy on politicos, rules tribunal. [The Register]
13-10-2015: The end of Australians' digital privacy. [Stuff]
10-10-2015: Obama administration won’t seek encryption-backdoor legislation. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Wired] [Android Police] [HardOCP] [TechCrunch] [Schneier] [NYT] [Washington Post]
09-10-2015: I showed leaked NSA slides at Purdue, so feds demanded the video be destroyed. [Ars Technica]
05-10-2015: GCHQ can take control of smartphones. [BBC News] [The Register]
29-09-2015: Feds say your hard drives are for the government’s keeping. [Ars Technica]
29-09-2015: US government deny illegal spying to EU top lawyer. [The Register]
28-09-2015: This new campaign wants to help surveillance agents quit NSA or GCHQ. [Wired]
25-09-2015: GCHQ stores 50+ billion records a day on people. [The Register]
25-09-2015: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [The Intercept] [Schneier]
17-09-2015: Britain's FBI wants 'Five Eyes' cosy hookups with infosec outfits. [The Register]
16-09-2015: Anonymous browsing at the library. [Schneier] [ProPublica] [The Register]
15-09-2015: ISP wins 11-year battle to reveal warrantless FBI spying. [Engadget]
15-09-2015: Hacking Team, Computer Vulnerabilities, and the NSA. [Schneier]
14-09-2015: Did GCHQ illegally spy on you? Now you can find out from this page. [The Register] [Wired]
14-09-2015: Jeb Bush asks that you stop demonizing the NSA. [Wired]
11-09-2015: GCHQ wants to set your passwords -- in a good way. [The Register]
10-09-2015: FBI and Apple's encryption. [Schneier]
01-09-2015: Spy agencies can run wild because oversight is broken. [Wired]
01-09-2015: NSA boss: encrypted software needs government backdoors. [Wired]
04-09-2015: FTC commissioners call for strong encryption, push back against FBI, NSA. [ExtremeTech] [The Register]
06-09-2015: US trade watchdog to FBI: you think the crims won't know about the back door too? [The Register]
31-08-2015: Spy agencies mining Ashley Madison data for blackmail material. [Stuff]
30-08-2015: NSA wants encryption that fends off quantum computing hacks. [Engadget]
29-08-2015: The NSA can keep spying on phone call metadata through November. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
28-08-2015: Why it's hard to sue the NSA: you have to prove it spied on you. [Wired]
21-08-2015: NSA preps quantum-resistant algorithms to head off crypto-apocalypse [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
18-08-2015: Jeb Bush thinks we haven't given the NSA enough power to spy on us. [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica]
17-08-2015: The secret project to turn the Internet into an anti-Soviet spy network. [Gizmodo]
15-08-2015: NSA's partnership with AT&T. [Schneier] [ProPublica] [NYT] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [The Register] [DC Knowledge]
13-08-2015: NZ spies want greater powers. [Stuff]
05-08-2015: FBI must get proper warrant to track somebody by cellphone - US appeals court. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
04-08-2015: TrueCrypt 'decrypted' by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin. [The Register]
04-08-2015: Duncan Campbell: GCHQ and me and a roomful of Reg readers. [The Register]
31-07-2015: Wikileaks: US spied on Japan. [BBC News] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
30-07-2015: The NSA, metadata, and the failure of stopping 9/11. [Schneier] [Foreign Policy]
27-07-2015: NSA won't look at call metadata collected under the Patriot Act. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [The Register]
27-07-2015: Even former heads of NSA, DHS think crypto backdoors are stupid. [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
23-07-2015: How British spies really spy: Information that didn't come from Snowden. [The Register]
23-07-2015: Galloway and Greens challenge Brit spooks over dragnet snooping. [The Register]
17-07-2015: Feds bust through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware. [Ars Technica]
14-07-2015: ACLU wants to end NSA mass spying forever. [The Register]
13-07-2015: NSA antennas. [Schneier] [Nautilus Institute]
09-07-2015: Another NSA leak: Network security code appears on GitHub. [The Register]
09-07-2015: This is the most outrageous government tirade against iOS 8 encryption. [Ars Technica]
08-07-2015: NSA runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL. [The Register]
07-07-2015: FBI director says he's 'not a maniac' about backdoor cellphone access. [Engadget]
09-07-2015: FBI chief tells Senate committee we’re doomed without crypto backdoors. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
06-07-2015: Australian government mulls secret terror court proposals. [The Register]
04-07-2015: NSA's top Brazilian political and financial targets revealed by new Wikileaks disclosure. [The Intercept]
03-07-2015: UK’s Cameron wants to ban encryption. [ExtremeTech]
02-07-2015: GCHQ did spy on Amnesty International, secret tribunal admits. [Ars Technica] [BBC News]
02-07-2015: New intelligence briefs show US spied on German leader. [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [Der Spiegel]
09-07-2015: Wikileaks: NSA snooped on German chancellors for decades. [The Register]
30-06-2015: Warrantless phone tapping, e-mail spying inching to Supreme Court review. [Ars Technica]
30-06-2015: Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [NYT] [The Register]
29-06-2015: Expert says NZ should seek 'Five Eyes' role change to protect China relations. [Stuff]
26-06-2015: GCHQ accidentally spied on its own staff too much. [Graham Cluley] [HardOCP] [Wired] [The Register]
24-06-2015: What is the DoD's position on backdoors in security systems? [Schneier]
22-06-2015: Spies hacked computers thanks to sweeping secret warrants, aggressively stretching UK law. [The Intercept] [The Register]
22-06-2015: Controversial GCHQ unit engaged in domestic law enforcement, online propaganda, psychology research. [The Intercept]
22-06-2015: New Snowden docs reveal NSA, British government attacked antivirus companies. [ExtremeTech] [Graham Cluley] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Schneier]
22-06-2015: GCHQ 'broke rules' when spying on NGOs. [BBC News] [Engadget]
17-06-2015: FBI aerial surveillance revelations prompt backlash from US lawmakers. [Ars Technica]
17-06-2015: Even former NSA chief thinks USA Freedom Act was a pointless change. [Ars Technica] [Schneier]
17-06-2015: Downing Street secretly deletes emails to avoid exposure to FOI requests. [The Register]
15-06-2015: Five reasons the MI6 story is a lie. [Graham Cluley] [The Register] [The Intercept] [NZ Herald]
16-06-2015: China and Russia almost definitely have the Snowden docs. [Wired]
16-06-2015: Sunday Times reporter tells CNN everything you need to know about Snowden story. [Graham Cluley]
12-06-2015: Germany drops probe into NSA's Merkel phone-hacking. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
11-06-2015: If hackers can spy on you all then so should we – US Senator logic. [The Register]
11-06-2015: Review of UK surveillance laws: as you were, GCHQ. [The Register] [Engadget]
11-06-2015: A sensible way forward on UK surveillance? [BBC News]
10-06-2015: Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'. [BBC News] [Engadget]
10-06-2015: Techies to Obama: keep your hands off encryption. [Stuff]
09-06-2015: Canada greenlights an anti-terror law that hurts internet privacy. [Engadget]
09-06-2015: If the FBI has a backdoor to Facebook or Apple encryption, we are less safe. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
09-06-2015: Undetectable NSA-linked hybrid malware hits Intel Security radar. [The Register]
09-06-2015: NSA slapdown prompts Privacy Int'l to file new lawsuit against GCHQ. [The Register]
04-06-2015: New Snowden documents reveal secret memos expanding spying. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [NYT] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [ExtremeTech] [Schneier]
03-06-2015: US Senate votes to curtail bulk data collection. [BBC News]
02-06-2015: Let the snooping resume: Senate revives Patriot Act surveillance measures. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Wired] [The Register]
02-06-2015: Forget black helicopters, FBI flying surveillance Cessnas over US cities. [The Register] [Gawker] [BoingBoing] [Engadget]
04-06-2015: How I tracked FBI aerial surveillance. [Ars Technica]
06-06-2015: Divining the capabilities of the FBI's ubiquitous spy aircraft. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
18-06-2015: FBI says in secret that secret spy Cessnas aren't secret. [The Register]
02-06-2015: How the end of Patriot Act provisions changes NSA surveillance. [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Lifehacker] [BoingBoing]
02-06-2015: IT-savvy US congressmen to Feds: End your crypto-backdoor crusade. [The Register]
01-06-2015: How the government will spy on you if the Patriot Act dies. [Gizmodo] [The Register]
01-06-2015: This shadow government agency is scarier than the NSA. [Gizmodo]
01-06-2015: UK cops average a personal metadata request every 2 minutes. [BoingBoing] [Pando]
01-06-2015: NSA can't legally surveil Americans' every phone call, for now. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [The Register] [Engadget]
31-05-2015: PATRIOT Act expires -- now what? [BoingBoing] [EFF]
31-05-2015: Parts of Patriot Act expire tonight after Senate Fails to pass reform. [Wired] [Ars Technica]
31-05-2015: If the PATRIOT Act ends tonight, what will that mean? [BoingBoing] [USA Today]
31-05-2015: Thousands of websites block Congress in protest of NSA surveillance. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian]
31-05-2015: “Terrorist elements” are watching today’s Senate Patriot Act vote. [Ars Technica]
31-05-2015: The Patriot Act may be dead forever. [HardOCP] [The Daily Beast]
31-05-2015: Another tech firm says it has quit the UK over government internet surveillance plans. [Graham Cluley]
30-05-2015: The PATRIOT Act is uglier than you thought, and what to do about it. [BoingBoing]
30-05-2015: Rand Paul plans to crush the Patriot Act. [BoingBoing] [Politico]
30-05-2015: Proposal to massively expand FBI's legal hacking abilities moves forward. [Gizmodo]
29-05-2015: Weaponizing code: America's quest to control the exploit market. [Engadget]
22-05-2015: Senate blocks NSA reform bill and Patriot Act extensions. [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [EFF] [Stuff] [Wired] [The Register] [HardOCP] [PCWorld] [Stuff] [Gizmodo] [DailyTech]
26-05-2015: Obama urges Senate to preserve NSA's illegal, useless phone record programme. [BoingBoing] [LA Times]
21-05-2015: How NSA, allies exploit mobile app stores. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [CBC News] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [THG] [HardOCP] [The Intercept] [ExtremeTech] [Android Police] [The Register] [NZ Herald]
20-05-2015: NSA spying shutting down this week. [HardOCP] [National Journal]
20-05-2015: 'Logjam' crypto bug could be how the NSA cracked VPNs. [The Register]
19-05-2015: Americans do not like NSA spying and want to reform the Patriot Act. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
19-05-2015: Want to hack companies and not get punished? Just join GCHQ. [Graham Cluley]
18-05-2015: Apple and Google push Obama to prevent encryption backdoors. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [ExtremeTech]
17-05-2015: UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity. [Ars Technica]
15-05-2015: Even the FBI had privacy concerns on license plate readers. [Wired]
15-05-2015: Law changed to allow GCHQ hacking ... just as GCHQ hauled into court for hacking. [The Register]
14-05-2015: Metadata scope creep sees Border Force ask for access. [The Register]
13-05-2015: House votes 338-88 to stop bulk phone data collection. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Wired] [ExtremeTech]
12-05-2015: Wyden: If Senate tries to renew NSA spying authority, I’ll filibuster. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
11-05-2015: More on the NSA's capabilities. [Schneier] [Light Blue Touchpaper]
08-05-2015: Snowden: court ruling against NSA surveillance 'encouraging'. [Engadget]
08-05-2015: Google executives talk Snowden and NSA backdoors during AMA. [Engadget]
08-05-2015: So, the NSA has an actual Skynet programme. [Wired] [Gizmodo]
08-05-2015: Theresa May: Right, this time we're getting the Snooper's Charter in. [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
11-05-2015: Tories vow to ram through mass spying bill -- you can stop them! [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group]
13-05-2015: Technology firm says it is quitting the UK because of government internet surveillance plans. [Graham Cluley]
27-05-2015: Queen's Speech: New monitoring powers 'to tackle terrorism'. [BBC News]
07-05-2015: Canada passes controversial spook-powers law. [The Register]
07-05-2015: NSA phone dragnet is illegal, appeals court rules. [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Consumerist] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [ExtremeTech] [Stuff] [The Gadgeteer]
08-05-2015: NSA spying is illegal? Then let's make it law, say Republicans. [The Register]
10-05-2015: What did the courts just do to NSA spying? [BoingBoing] [EFF]
07-05-2015: The FBI’s secret air force watched the streets of Baltimore. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
06-05-2015: NSA, GCHQ lingo-spies replaced by unstoppable RHINEHART robots. [The Register]
05-05-2015: The NSA's voice-to-text capability. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
03-05-2015: Germany investigates claims that it helped the US spy on Europe. [Engadget] [The Register] [Gizmodo]
07-05-2015: Red-faced Germans halt NSA cooperation after Euro spying revealed. [The Register]
01-05-2015: NSA-restraining US law edges closer to reality, leaves just 6.81 billion under mass surveillance. [The Register]
30-04-2015: Airbus to sue NSA, German spies accused of swiping tech secrets. [The Register] [BBC News]
29-04-2015: Today in Congress, we heard that encryption is enabling upskirt photos. [Gizmodo]
28-04-2015: FBI's crypto backdoor plans require them to win the war on general purpose computing. [BoingBoing] [Web Policy]
25-04-2015: CIA couldn’t fully use NSA spy program as most analysts didn’t know about it. [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
25-04-2015: Officials knew the legal basis for an NSA spying program was bullshit. [Gizmodo]
24-04-2015: NSA spied on EU politicians and companies with help from German intelligence. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
22-04-2015: When the Schmidt hits The Man: Look what the NSA made Google do. [The Register]
21-04-2015: Jeb Bush praises Obama's expansion of NSA surveillance. [The Intercept] [BoingBoing]
20-04-2015: Counting the US intelligence community leakers. [Schneier]
19-04-2015: FBI can’t cut Internet and pose as cable guy to search property, judge says. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
16-04-2015: New Zealand involved in spying on Bangladesh. [Stuff]
11-04-2015: NSA dreams of smartphones with “split” crypto keys protecting user data. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Washington Post] [The Register] [ExtremeTech]
10-04-2015: Impact of NSA surveillance on US cloud providers not as bad as we thought. [DC Knowledge]
10-04-2015: European court challenge to UK surveillance. [BBC News] [Engadget]
08-04-2015: The DEA collected call metadata way before the NSA did. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
02-04-2015: The FBI has its own secret brand of malware. [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
02-04-2015: NSA's internet spying will cost US tech vendors $47B. [HardOCP] [cNet]
29-03-2015: NSA considered scrapping its mass phone surveillance program. [Engagdet] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [The Register]
26-03-2015: As crypto wars begin, FBI silently removes sensible advice to encrypt your devices. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt] [Gizmodo]
26-03-2015: GCSB will be investigated over claims New Zealanders spied on in Pacific. [Stuff]
25-03-2015: NSA doesn't need to spy on your calls to learn your secrets. [Wired] [HardOCP]
25-03-2015: EU: Don’t use Facebook if you want to keep the NSA away from your data. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
24-03-2015: Snowden dump details Canadian spies running false flag ops online. [The Register]
24-03-2015: Internet 'Threat-sharing' bill introduced in U.S. House. Promise: security. Reality: surveillance. [BoingBoing]
24-03-2015: Reforming the FISA court. [Schneier]
23-03-2015: New Zealand used NSA data to spy on rival trade leader candidates. [Engadget] [The Register] [Schneier]
19-03-2015: Cisco is going to ship its equipment to empty houses to dodge the NSA. [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
19-03-2015: US threatened Germany over Snowden, vice Chancellor says. [The Intercept]
18-03-2015: Campaigners call to curb GCHQ spying powers. [BBC News]
17-03-2015: National Archives crowdsources transcription of CIA files. [Ars Technica]
17-03-2015: Five ways to stop NSA spying on your email. [NZ Herald]
16-03-2015: White House exempts itself from Freedom of Information Act. [BoingBoing]
12-03-2015: Bulk interception is NOT mass surveillance, says parliamentary committee. [The Register] [The Intercept]
12-03-2015: UK surveillance 'lacks transparency', ISC report says. [BBC News] [Engadget]
11-03-2015: Australians - let us all rise up against data retention. [The Register]
11-03-2015: UK foreign secretary: stop talking about Snowden, let spies get on with it. [BoingBoing] [The Inquirer]
11-03-2015: GCSB spies 'collecting less intelligence'. [Stuff]
10-03-2015: The CIA is giving its surveillance tech to US law enforcement. [Engadget]
10-03-2015: Bulk comms spying is not mission creep, insists UK foreign secretary. [The Register]
10-03-2015: Wikimedia sues NSA and DOJ over mass surveillance. [The Register] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Wikimedia] [HardOCP] [NYT] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald] [Stuff]
10-03-2015: Banning Tor unwise and infeasible, MPs told [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Parliament] [The Daily Dot] [Ars Technica]
10-03-2015: The CIA has been desperately trying to break Apple's encryption system. [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [The Intercept] [Wired] [Stuff] [DailyTech] [The Register]
09-03-2015: CIA re-orgs to build cyber-snooping into all investigations. [The Register]
08-03-2015: UK Supreme Court waves through indiscriminate police surveillance. [The Register]
05-03-2015: Canadian bloke refuses to hand over phone password, gets arrested. [The Register] [HardOCP] [CBC News]
04-03-2015: NZ Customs seeks powers to disclose passwords. [Stuff]
04-03-2015: Kiwis will be 'shocked' by spy claims. [Stuff]
05-03-2015: NZ spied on Pacific Island neighbours. [Stuff] [The Register]
05-03-2015: New Zealand right to spy on Pacific Island neighbours. [Stuff]
05-03-2015: What's in Snowden's latest New Zealand spying files? [Stuff]
05-03-2015: NZ spying to secure our place in the 'club'. [Stuff]
06-03-2015: Spying on Pacific neighbours 'protects NZ'. [Stuff]
07-03-2015: John Key burning up political capital following Edward Snowden revelations. [Stuff]
08-03-2015: Silence on surveillance not healthy. [Stuff]
08-03-2015: Snowden files: Inside Waihopai's domes. [Stuff] [Stuff]
08-03-2015: Snowden files: NZ's spying on the family. [Stuff]
09-03-2015: John Key: no assurance over spying on Kiwis in Pacific. [Stuff]
09-03-2015: NZ prime minister retracts vow to resign if mass surveillance is shown. [The Intercept]
02-03-2015: US court rubber-stamps dragnet metadata surveillance - again. [The Register]
25-02-2015: Citing encryption, FBI lobbying to keep phone metadata spying powers. [Ars Technica]
25-02-2015: Canadian spies collect domestic emails in secret security sweep. [The Intercept]
25-02-2015: Why does the NSA's boss care so much about backdoors when he can just steal all our encryption keys? [The Register]
24-02-2015: Snowden: spy agencies ‘screwed all of us’ in hacking crypto keys. [Wired]
24-02-2015: Yahoo executive challenges NSA over encryption demands. [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [Just Security]
24-02-2015: Major expansion of CIA online spy efforts [Stuff]
22-02-2015: How the NSA’s firmware hacking works and why it’s so unsettling. [Wired]
19-02-2015: The NSA has the master key to unlock your phone's messages. [Gizmodo] [PocketNow] [Engadget] [The Register] [THG] [BBC News] [Stuff] [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [The Register] [ExtremeTech]
20-02-2015: SIM card maker Gemalto investigates spy agencies' hack attack. [Engadget]
20-02-2015: How spies stole the keys to the encryption castle. [HardOCP] [The Intercept]
23-02-2015: Gemalto: our SIM cards are secure despite alleged hack. [HardOCP] [cNet] [Graham Cluley] [THG]
24-02-2014: Rights groups call for action over NSA-GCHQ SIM hacking. [Stuff]
24-02-2015: The world's biggest SIM manufacturer denies encryption key hack. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Engadget] [Android Police] [Graham Cluley]
25-02-2015: Opinions clash over severity of spy agency SIM card hack. [PocketNow]
25-02-2015: Sim card firm links GCHQ and NSA to hack attacks. [BBC News] [Stuff]
25-02-2015: Not even GCHQ and NSA can crack our SIM key database, claims Gemalto. [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [THG] [The Register]
02-03-2015: If China or Russia had compromised every mobile phone, *then* would the authorities take it more seriously? [Graham Cluley] [YouTube]
19-02-2015: Canada's new surveillance bill eliminates any pretense of privacy. [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
19-02-2015: Hoping for spy reforms? Jeb Bush, dangerously close to being the next US prez, backs the NSA. [The Register]
18-02-2015: Hacker claims Feds hit him with 44 felonies when he refused to be an FBI spy. [Wired]
17-02-2015: Find out if the UK used NSA data to spy on you. [Engadget] [Graham Cluley]
17-02-2015: Fight back against illegal GCHQ spying with paperwork. [The Register]
16-02-2015: How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years -- and were found at last. [Ars Technica] [Wired]
16-02-2015: Kaspersky says 'The Equation Group' is a unique and dangerous threat. [THG]
17-02-2015: NSA hiding Equation spy program on hard drives. [Stuff] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Reuters] [The Register] [DC Knowledge] [HardOCP]
17-02-2015: Password cracking experts decipher elusive Equation Group crypto hash. [Ars Technica]
17-02-2015: The Equation Group's sophisticated hacking and exploitation tools. [Schneier]
18-02-2015: “How do I stop this virus?” Equation Group victim pleaded for online help. [Ars Technica]
19-02-2015: How hackers could attack hard drives to create a pervasive backdoor. [Ars Technica]
19-02-2015: Have you got Equation NSAware in your drives? Not really our concern, says EU. [The Register]
12-03-2015: New smoking gun further ties NSA to omnipotent “Equation Group” hackers. [Ars Technica]
12-03-2015: Inside EquationDrug: The world’s premier, NSA-backed espionage platform. [ExtremeTech] [The Register]
16-02-2015: Kara Swisher interviews Obama about security, gov't spying. [BoingBoing] [reCode YouTube]
18-02-2015: Obama hedges position on encryption. It’s good. It’s bad. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
16-02-2015: Find out if the NSA spied on you and shared the info with the UK. [BoingBoing] [Medium]
11-02-2015: NSA wins key ruling in years-old phone and Internet spying lawsuit. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Gizmodo] [Engadget]
11-02-2015: FBI really doesn’t want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops. [Ars Technica]
17-02-2015: In rare move, local cops reveal details to judges on “stingray” use. [Ars Technica]
18-02-2015: Police talk about use of “stingrays,” but aren’t saying anything. [Ars Technica]
18-02-2015: Here is the spy equipment that powers the FBI's secret dragnet. [Gizmodo]
22-02-2015: Stingray phone trackers coming to Santa Clara after “15 minutes” of review. [Ars Technica]
23-02-2015: ACLU: cops are using the FBI's fake cell-tower tech to track crims' phones. [The Register]
01-03-2015: Feds admit Stingrays can disrupt cell service of bystanders. [Wired] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
07-04-2015: FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
07-04-2015: NY cops used 'Stingray' spy tool 46 times without warrant. [Wired] [ExtremeTech] [Engadget]
14-04-2015: County prosecutor says it has no idea when stingrays were used, so man sues. [Ars Technica]
21-04-2015: Prosecutors drop robbery case to preserve stingray secrecy in St. Louis. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
21-04-2015: This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector. [Ars Technica]
27-04-2015: The further democratization of Stingray. [Schneier]
01-05-2015: FBI dumps 5,000 redacted pages on its cellphone-tracking device. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
12-05-2015: Cops must now get a warrant to use stingrays in Washington state. [Ars Technica]
15-05-2015: FBI now claims its stingray NDA means the opposite of what it says. [Ars Technica]
15-05-2015: FBI says police can disclose Stingray use, but not what they can do. [Engadget]
24-05-2015: County sheriff has used stingray over 300 times with no warrant. [Ars Technica]
19-06-2015: How a jailbird con artist uncovered a secret FBI surveillance tool. [Gizmodo]
03-09-2015: FBI, DEA and others will now have to get a warrant to use stingrays. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [The Register]
21-10-2015: Homeland Security will now get warrants for Stingray surveillance. [The Register] [The Verge] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica]
30-10-2015: Stingray phone surveillance tools can also record your calls. [Engadget]
21-11-2015: Judge: Stingrays are “simply too powerful” without adequate oversight. [Ars Technica]
02-12-2015: IRS admits to using the same spy tech as the FBI to track 37 phones. [Gizmodo]
08-12-2015: FBI admits it uses stingrays, zero-day exploits. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [cNet]
12-01-2016: Chicago police must finally produce stingray records, judge orders. [Ars Technica]
27-01-2016: California police used Stingrays in planes to spy on phones. [Wired] [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
29-01-2016: Warrantless stingray case finally arrives before federal appellate judges. [Ars Technica]
11-02-2016: NYPD has used Stingrays more than 1,000 times since 2008. [HardOCP] [NYCLU]
17-03-2016: How the government keeps its phone spying gear a secret. [Gizmodo]
31-03-2016: Appeals Court: No stingrays without a warrant, explanation to judge. [Ars Technica]
06-04-2016: Spy tool ruling inches the Stingray debate closer to the Supreme Court. [Wired]
27-05-2016: Stringray phone tracker use in the UK admitted for the first time. [Engadget]
12-07-2016: For the first time, federal judge tosses evidence obtained via stingray. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
16-08-2016: Baltimore cops accused of violating FCC rules with Stingrays. [The Register]
26-08-2016: FBI’s stingray quickly found suspect after local cops’ device couldn’t. [Ars Technica]
13-09-2016: Leaked Stingray manuals. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [ExtremeTech] [Engadget] [Russ White]
20-12-2016: Cops, Feds spend 100m on Stingray cellphone snooping gear – with no oversight. [The Register]
10-02-2015: Hackers unknowingly gather intel for the NSA. [HardOCP] [Computer World]
09-02-2015: Obama asks Germany “to give us the benefit of the doubt” on NSA spying. [Ars Technica]
09-02-2015: We'll ask GCHQ to delete records of 'millions' of people – Privacy International. [The Register]
08-02-2015: British spies come out as mega hackers. [The Register]
08-02-2015: UK government reveals its hacking guidelines. [Engadget]
06-02-2015: GCHQ censured over sharing of internet surveillance data with US. [BBC News] [The Register] [HardOCP] [The Guardian] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget]
05-02-2015: US anti-backdoor bill: If at first you're shot down in flames – try, try again. [The Register]
05-02-2015: NSA lays out its reforms post-Snowden. [The Register] [HardOCP]
04-02-2015: Western spy agencies secretly rely on hackers for intel and expertise. [The Intercept] [The Register]
04-02-2015: One year later: Obama failing to rein in the NSA. [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [EFF]
04-02-2015: Who's come to fix your broadband? It may be a Fed in disguise. Without a search warrant. [The Register]
03-02-2015: New Obama rules on surveillance fall short, privacy group says. [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
03-02-2015: No one knows what happened to NSA staffers who snooped on their lovers. [Ars Technica]
31-01-2015: New e-mail shows feds considered snooping on cars parked at gun shows. [Ars Technica]
29-01-2015: Researcher says Aussie spooks help code Five Eyes mega malware. [The Register]
28-01-2015: Canada casts global surveillance dragnet over file downloads. [The Intercept] [BoingBoing] [CBCnews] [HardOCP] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Schneier] [DocumentCloud] [The Register]
28-01-2015: US expands spy program on American drivers beyond border region. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
27-01-2015: Spies track mobile users with BADASS tracker. [Ars Technica]
26-01-2015: NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app. [The Register] [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [CBCnews]
24-01-2015: Britons: we have three days to kill the new Snooper's Charter. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
27-01-2015: Snoopers' Charter amendments withdrawn – for now. [The Register]
27-01-2015: Lords try again on Communications Data Bill powers. [BBC News]
30-01-2015: Snooper's Charter is dead. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
31-01-2015: Snapchat jihadist-fearing peers return with Snoopers' Charter demand. [The Register]
02-02-2015: 'Snoopers' charter' revival dropped by peers. [BBC News]
23-01-2015: Net firms condemn revival of 'snoopers' charter'. [BBC News]
22-01-2015: Microsoft handed FBI data on Charlie Hebdo probe in 45 minutes. [Stuff] [Ars Technica]
21-01-2015: Playing NSA, hardware hackers build USB cable that can attack. [Ars Technica]
20-01-2015: My message to MI6? I’m not expecting you to stop terrorism. [Graham Cluley]
20-01-2015: NSA: We're in your botnet. [The Register]
20-01-2015: British spy agency captured journalists’ messages amongst 70,000 e-mails. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Graham Cluley] [TrustedReviews] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
19-01-2015: NSA secretly hijacked existing malware to spy on N. Korea, others. [Ars Technica] [NYT]
18-01-2015: New NSA documents on offensive cyberoperations. [Schneier] [Der Spiegel]
18-01-2015: Leaked Snowden docs show that some spies treat cyberwar as a punchline. [Gizmodo]
18-01-2015: Feds operated yet another secret metadata database until 2013. [Ars Technica]
17-01-2015: NSA brags about turning the tables on cyberwarfare hackers. [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel] [HardOCP]
17-01-2015: US drug squad cops: We snooped on innocent Americans' phone calls too. [The Register] [NYT] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Schneier]
16-01-2015: The problem with the White House cybersecurity proposals. [BoingBoing] [UoC]
16-01-2015: Latest FBI claim of disrupted terror plot deserves much scrutiny and skepticism. [The Intercept]
15-01-2015: Technology offers no magic solution to bulk data collection issues, says NSA panel. [The Guardian] [Gizmodo]
15-01-2015: The CIA has cleared its own spies of snooping on Senate computers. [Gizmodo] [CIA PDF] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [HardOCP] [NationalJournal]
14-01-2015: No, the NSA isn’t like the Stasi -- and comparing them is treacherous. [Wired]
14-01-2015: NSA official: Support of backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG was “regrettable”. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
13-01-2015: Obama renews push for comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Yahoo News] [Gizmodo] [BBC News] [Wired] [BoingBoing]
14-01-2015: Obama's proposed laws against hacking will negatively impact cybersecurity professionals, create a cyber police state. [Errata Security]
15-01-2015: Mr President, is this a war on hackers – or a war on people stopping hackers? [The Register]
16-01-2015: Obama backs call for tech backdoors. [The Hill] [PocketNow]
13-01-2015: Welcome to 'uber-veillance' says Australian Privacy Foundation. [The Register]
12-01-2015: David Cameron threatens to ban encrypted messaging apps. [TrustedReviews] [NYT] [Stuff] [Ars Technica] [PocketNow] [MobileBurn] [ReadWriteWeb] [Gizmodo] [ExtremeTech] [T&M] [ReadWriteWeb]
13-01-2015: What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry. [BoingBoing]
13-01-2015: Can the government ban encryption? [BBC News]
14-01-2015: Euro security agency says more crypto needed in gov policy. [The Register]
14-01-2015: Don't use Charlie Hebdo to justify Big Brother data-slurp – Data protection MEP. [The Register]
15-01-2015: Cameron: I'm off to the US to get ban crypto – report. [The Register] [The Guardian] [BoingBoing]
16-01-2015: Obama snubs Cameron's tough anti-encryption crusade at White House meet. [The Register] [Android Police]
16-01-2015: BBC radio punch-up over David Cameron’s surveillance backdoor. [Graham Cluley]
16-01-2015: With crypto in UK crosshairs, secret US report says it’s vital. [Ars Technica] [The Guardian] [BoingBoing]
03-02-2015: Zimmermann slams Cameron’s ‘absurd’ plans for crypto ban. [The Register]
11-01-2015: FBI is broadening surveillance role. [NYT] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
09-01-2015: MI5 boss: We need to break securo-tech, get 'assistance' from data-slurp firms. [The Register]
06-01-2015: Going postal: Reporter sues government for spying from USPS network. [Ars Technica]
05-01-2015: FBI says search warrants not needed to use “stingrays” in public places. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [The Week] [HardOCP]
01-01-2015: If the Supreme Court tackles the NSA in 2015, it’ll be one of these five cases. [Ars Technica]
2014 – News / Articles
31-12-2014: India blocks 32 websites. [HardOCP] [ZDNet] [Android Police] [BBC News]
30-12-2014: The year’s biggest winners and losers in privacy and security. [Wired]
30-12-2014: Thailand gives ISPs authority to block content at will. [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
29-12-2014: China blocks access to Gmail. [MobileBurn] [BoingBoing] [AP] [The Register] [HardOCP] [reCode] [BBC News] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [DC Knowledge] [NZ Herald] [Stuff] [DailyTech] [Graham Cluley]
30-12-2014: Google's Gmail staggers to feet in China as access partially restored. [The Register] [TechCrunch] [Engadget] [Graham Cluley]
30-12-2014: China blocking Google Search too. [HardOCP] [Washington Post]
26-12-2014: Iran expands 'smart' Internet censorship. [Reuters] [Engadget]
26-12-2014: Tech giants do battle with Russia over censorship. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [WSJ]
19-12-2014: German researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls. [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [HotForSecurity]
18-12-2014: The best privacy- and security-focused web browsers. [Lifehacker]
16-12-2014: Fake cell phone towers found in Norway. [Schneier] [Aftenposten] [NewsInEnglish]
10-12-2014: Bittorrent's 'Project Maelstrom' aims to deliver all websites through torrents. [THG]
08-12-2014: Corporate abuse of our data. [Schneier]
02-12-2014: The future of auditory surveillance. [Schneier] [Defense One]
30-11-2014: German spy agency can monitor its own citizens via technicality. [Ars Technica]
25-11-2014: Video: should online surveillance be wider? [BBC News]
21-11-2014: Human rights groups' anti-surveillance tool. [Stuff] [Detekt]
20-11-2014: China ramps up censorship as it hosts World Internet Conference. [DC Knowledge]
12-11-2014: Who will save Europe's privacy from the NSA? Oh dear... it's Google. [The Register]
12-11-2014: Why are ISPs removing their customers' email encryption? [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [EFF] [The Register]
10-11-2014: Mozilla will start hosting Tor relays as part of Polaris privacy push. [GigaOM]
07-11-2014: The Arab Spring of privacy is upon us. [Wired]
07-11-2014: Dropbox responds to Snowden privacy criticisms. [ReadWriteWeb]
05-11-2014: Facebook sees 24% uptick in government requests for user data. [HardOCP] [cNet]
04-11-2014: Does your phone company track you? [Ars Technica]
28-10-2014: Verizon gives 120 million customers a cookie they can’t delete. [Graham Cluley] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
31-10-2014: Why Verizon is tracking all your mobile web traffic. [ReadWriteWeb]
14-11-2014: AT&T will stop putting undeletable tracking IDs on your phone. [Gizmodo]
27-10-2014: Schneier, Diffie, ex-MI5 bod, privacy advocates team up on Code Red. [Schneier]
23-10-2014: Privacy complaints skyrocketed in 2013-14, says Pilgrim. [The Register]
20-10-2014: How to uncover blurred information in photographs. [Lifehacker] [dheera]
20-10-2014: When can the police search your computer/phone? [BoingBoing] [EFF] [Gizmodo]
16-10-2014: Tor Browser goes 4.0. [BoingBoing] [Tor Project]
16-10-2014: How Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users. [The Guardian] [The Register] [Engadget]
16-10-2014: Whisper: we don't track ‘anonymous’ users. [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [Business Insider] [BBC News]
17-10-2014: Whisper CTO says tracking “anonymous” users not a big deal, really. [Ars Technica]
18-10-2014: Whisper's users may not be so anonymous after all. [ReadWriteWeb]
19-10-2014: Whisper chief: 'We're not infallible but strive to do right by our anonymous users'. [The Register]
20-10-2014: Whisper tracks its users. So we tracked down its LA office. This is what happened next. [The Register]
24-10-2014: Whisper: explain this 'questionable' behavior – senior US senator. [The Register] [The Guardian]
24-10-2014: Whisper responds to Guardian's “10 questions”. [PDF]
27-10-2014: Why weasel words might not work for Whisper. [The Register]
29-10-2014: Whisper CEO denies Guardian allegations that it tracks users locations. [Engadget]
13-10-2014: With this tiny box, you can anonymize everything you do online. [Wired]
11-10-2014: Librarians on the vanguard of the anti-surveillance movement. [BoingBoing] [Washington Post]
10-10-2014: Google received over 144,000 'Right To Be Forgotten' requests. [HardOCP] [cNet]
09-10-2014: Gadgets held as evidence being remotely wiped. [BoingBoing]
07-10-2014: Hong Kong Transparency Database: tracking HK gov't requests to ISPs. [BoingBoing] [HKTR]
03-10-2014: New Google transparency report is out. [HardOCP] [Google]
01-10-2014: The criminal indictment that could finally hit spyware makers hard. [Wired]
29-09-2014: We take your privacy and security. Seriously. [Krebs]
21-09-2014: Special pleading against mass surveillance won't help anyone. [The Register]
16-09-2014: Israeli spies rebel over mass-snooping on innocent Palestinians. [The Register]
15-09-2014: Several Massachusetts libraries installing Tor on all public PCs, coordinating privacy classes. [BoingBoing]
12-09-2014: EFF urges Congress to protect privacy in the cloud. [ReadWriteWeb]
11-09-2014: Dropbox transparency report: 268 law enforcement requests, up to 249 national security requests. [VentureBeat]
23-08-2014: China censorship filters are hamstringing posts that help their cause. [Ars Technica]
19-08-2014: Think crypto hides you from spooks on Facebook? Think again. [The Register]
18-08-2014: Rupert Murdoch says Google is worse than the NSA. [The Register]
18-08-2014: John McAfee wants you to stop using Google. [Gizmodo] [BBC News]
15-08-2014: Researchers figure out how to spy on your smartphone in a way you’ll never see coming. [BGR]
11-08-2014: US tech companies rally behind Facebook in privacy case. [BBC News]
09-08-2014: Crypto Daddy Phil Zimmerman says surveillance society is doomed. [The Register]
05-08-2014: Ubiquitous surveillance in Singapore. [Schneier] [Foreign Policy]
25-07-2014: Intimate data kept on file. [NZ Herald]
21-07-2014: Hidden network packet sniffer found in millions of iPhones, iPads. [The Register]
08-07-2014: Facebook is beating the FBI at facial recognition. [HardOCP] [The Verge]
04-07-2014: Web activity used in court to portray state of mind. [Schneier]
03-07-2014: UK "porn filter" triggers widespread internet censorship. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
18-06-2014: TOR is '90 per cent of the net' claims City of London Police Commish – and he's dead wrong. [The Register]
15-06-2014: Big Brother at work may be no bad thing. [BBC News]
05-06-2014: Today is the day we Reset the Net. [BoingBoing] [ResetTheNet] [Stuff]
05-06-2014: Volume of encrypted email rising. [Stuff] [NZ Herald]
03-06-2014: Transparency Report: protecting emails as they travel across the web. [Google]
27-05-2014: The FTC wants to save you from data brokers that sell your secrets. [Gizmodo]
21-05-2014: Surveillance state: the NSA doesn't stand alone. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
16-05-2014: EFF heaps praise on Apple for protecting customer data. [TUAW] [iMore]
15-05-2014: Most tech giants now score well in EFF's first post-Snowden "Who Has Your Back?" report. [EFF]
09-05-2014: New guidelines outline what iPhone data Apple can give to police. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
02-05-2014: White House seeks legal immunity for firms that hand over customer data. [The Guardian] [Engadget]
02-05-2014: Apple and other techs to notify users of government data collection. [GottaBeMobile] [TrustedReviews]
30-04-2014: TAILS: Snowden's favorite anonymous, secure OS goes 1.0. [BoingBoing] [Tails] [Hexus] [Engadget]
21-04-2014: Info on Russian bulk surveillance. [Schneier] [CSIS] [BoingBoing]
17-04-2014: Putin tells Snowden live on air: no 'massive scale' surveillance of public communications. [Engadget] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
17-04-2014: Snowden: "Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama". [BoingBoing]
18-04-2014: Snowden on his Putin TV appearance: 'Why all the criticism?' [The Register]
19-04-2014: Snowden op-ed explains reasons for calling out Putin on live TV. [Ars Technica]
17-04-2014: Despite Lavabit contempt order, e-mail privacy stalled in Congress. [Ars Technica]
16-04-2014: Snowden-inspired crypto-email service Lavaboom launches. [The Register]
15-04-2014: Google admits just how much it scans our Gmail. [BGR] [Ars Technica]
14-04-2014: FBI plans to have 52 million photos in its NGI face recognition database by next year. [EFF] [Gizmodo]
14-04-2014: Security breaches at federal agencies involving PII just keep mounting up. [Collaborista]
09-04-2014: EU court rejects requirement to keep data of users by telecom companies. [Tracy and Matt]
31-03-2014: You’ve uploaded files to Dropbox. But just how private are they? [Graham Cluley]
22-03-2014: Time Warner Cable issues first transparency report. [Engadget]
22-03-2014: Turkey widens Internet censorship. [Daily News] [Washington Post]
24-03-2014: Turkey's farcical Twitter ban leads to SPIKE in tweets. [The Register]
26-03-2014: Turkey will lift its Twitter ban. [ReadWriteWeb]
27-03-2014: Turkish government blocks YouTube to shut down spread of phone recording in which PM conspires to hide millions from investigators. [BoingBoing] [WebRazzi]
28-03-2014: Turkish court rules tweets are free speech. [Engadget]
30-03-2014: Google claims Turkey intercepts their DNS. [ZDNet] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BBC News]
08-04-2014: Turkish ISPs make getting to YouTube a little easier, but haven't unblocked it yet. [Engadget]
21-03-2014: Forget the NSA, tech companies may be reading your email too. [Wired]
22-03-2014: EFF lawyer questions Microsoft's ability to search our email, claims it's open to abuse. [Engadget]
21-03-2014: Gmail goes HTTPS-only, inside and out. [Graham Cluley]
20-03-2014: Microsoft snooped on a blogger's email to hunt down a Windows 8 leaker. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BBC News]
24-03-2014: It’s not just Microsoft: Apple and Google can also read your emails. [BGR]
25-03-2014: Ex-Microsoft worker arrested after passing Windows 8 trade secrets to blogger. [Collaborista]
26-03-2014: Google denies snooping on Gmail users to hunt down leaks. [BGR]
28-03-2014: Microsoft changes privacy policy to ban accessing users' email. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [BoingBoing]
20-03-2014: NZers' online privacy behaviours under the microscope. [Voxy]
17-03-2014: Australian attorney general wants the power to launch man-in-the-middle attacks on secure Internet connections. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
13-03-2014: Researches attack secured internet activity to mine personal data. [HardOCP] [Network World]
13-03-2014: Bad news for NSA, Google encrypts search. [Stuff]
10-03-2014: Snowden says encryption and oversight are key to protecting the public from surveillance. [Engadget]
06-03-2014: Microsoft received 35,083 government requests for data impacting 58,676 accounts in the second half of 2013. [TNW]
05-03-2014: Ex-NSA official Inglis warns tech firms: be transparent. [WSJ]
28-02-2014: Tor is working on a messaging app that will take privacy to the next level. [BGR] [DailyDot] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
03-03-2014: IM demo for TOR coming soon. [The Register]
18-02-2014: Detailed analysis of Syria's network censorship with logs from Blue Coat's surveillance boxes. [BoingBoing] [Arxiv PDF]
17-02-2014: Undeniable proof that Facebook knows way too much about your life. [BGR]
16-02-2014: NSA sanctions Australia’s spying on US law firm representing a foreign country. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [NYT] [BBC News]
06-02-2014: Turks bid farewell to the Internet in the face of brutal censorship/surveillance law. [BoingBoing] [Medium]
05-02-2014: Wozniak criticises cloud dependence in light of NSA. [HardOCP] [cNet]
05-02-2014: New surveillance tech that tracks everyone from above. [HardOCP] [Washington Post]
05-02-2014: GCSB spies admit to illegally deleting key evidence in Kim Dotcom case. [BoingBoing] [NZ Herald]
04-02-2014: Anonymous means NO identifying element left behind – EU handbook. [The Register]
03-02-2014: Legendary hacker group CCC files complaint against German government over surveillance. [GigaOM] [Stuff]
29-01-2014: Lavabit goes head to head with feds in contempt-of-court case. [Ars Technica] [PCWorld]
31-01-2014: Lavabit secure email chief battles on. [BBC News]
17-04-2014: Lavabit held in contempt of court for printing crypto key in tiny font. [Ars Technica] [Wired] [The Register] [BBC News]
27-01-2014: What is exposed about you and your friends when you login with Facebook. [BoingBoing] [Twitter]
27-01-2014: US government reaches deal with tech firms on data requests. [WSJ]
21-01-2014: Russian spy nodes caught snooping on Facebook users. [Wired]
17-01-2014: UK 'complacent' over mass surveillance revelations. [BBC News]
16-01-2014: Creator of PGP e-mail encryption making secure Android “Blackphone”. [Ars Technica] [Geekzone] [DailyTech] [BGR] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [TechCrunch] [BoingBoing] [Blackphone] [PocketNow] [ExtremeTech] [HardOCP] [BetaBeat] [The Register] [Stuff] [GottaBeMobile]
13-01-2014: Out in the Open: An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent. [Wired]
11-01-2014: Canadian spy agency admits to illegally spying on Canadians. [BoingBoing] [The Observer]
10-01-2014: It's insanely cheap for cops to track your cell phone. [Gizmodo]
10-01-2014: Coalition to fight mass Internet surveillance declares global day of action, Feb 11. [BoingBoing] [thedaywefightback.org] [Reddit]
09-01-2014: Small telecoms company believed to be at centre of government court fight files surveillance transparency report. [Wired]
08-01-2014: Online privacy could spark US-EU trade rift. [WSJ]
08-01-2014: Facial recognition app helps you internet stalk that girl you saw on the bus. [Graham Cluley]
07-01-2014: The Pirate Bay to launch game changing app. [NZ Herald]
06-01-2014: Agencies too slow in destroying shared data. [Stuff]
03-01-2014: Coca Cola slurps millions of MAC addresses. [The Register]
03-01-2014: Facebook sued over alleged private message scanning. [BBC News] [cNet] [The Register] [BGR] [NZ Herald]
03-01-2014: Why Facebook is right to scan ‘private’ messages. [Graham Cluley]
2014 – Five Eyes Spying
31-12-2014: FBI can secretly spy on Americans even if its useless oversight court says no. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
31-12-2014: What's in the files the NSA dribbled out after its Xmas dump? [BoingBoing] [Patrick Durusau]
31-12-2014: WikiLeaks claims employee’s Google mail, metadata seized by US government. [Ars Technica]
30-12-2014: FBI targets companies that hire hackers to protect them against hackers. [BoingBoing] [Bloomberg]
30-12-2014: NSA can circumvent HTTPS, according to Snowden report. [ReadWriteWeb]
30-12-2014: The encryption tools the NSA still can't crack revealed in new leaks. [Gizmodo] [THG]
30-12-2014: New NSA leaks: does crypto still work? [BoingBoing] [Cryptographic Engineering]
31-12-2014: NSA has VPNs in Vulcan death grip -- no, really, that’s what they call it. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP]
31-12-2014: Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
29-12-2014: Inside the NSA's war on internet security. [HardOCP] [Der Spiegel]
29-12-2014: Tor de farce: NSA fails to decrypt anonymised network. [The Register]
29-12-2014: Leaked CIA documents. [Schneier] [Wikileaks: link 1, link 2]
29-12-2014: New cyber-defence system for NZ. [Stuff]
28-12-2014: Here are the security measures NSA spies hate the most. [Engadget]
28-12-2014: New documents on NSA's cryptanalysis capabilities. [Schneier] [Der Spiegel] [CCC]
26-12-2014: Merry Christmas from the NSA. [Schneier] [NSA] [BoingBoing] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica]
25-12-2014: US agency reports improper surveillance of Americans. [Bloomberg]
23-12-2014: GCHQ: We can't track crims any more thanks to Snowden. [The Register]
20-12-2014: Fury erupts on streets of Brussels over greedy USA's data-slurping appetite. [The Register]
18-12-2014: The limits of police subterfuge. [Schneier]
15-12-2014: Eric Schmidt: NSA revelations made Google more secure than ever. [THG]
15-12-2014: Senator: Backdoor for the Feds is a backdoor for hackers. [The Register]
15-12-2014: Over 700 million people taking steps to avoid NSA surveillance. [Schneier] [CIGI] [BBC News]
13-12-2014: Operation Socialist: the inside story of how GCHQ hacked Belgium's largest telco. [The Intercept]
12-12-2014: How Congress secretly just legitimized questionable NSA mass surveillance tool. [TechDirt]
12-12-2014: Who might control your telephone metadata. [Schneier] [Document Cloud]
09-12-2014: Microsoft tells US: The world’s servers are not yours for the taking. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
15-12-2014: Business, media and civil society speak up in key privacy case. [Microsoft]
24-12-2014: Ireland: Hey, you. America. Hands off Microsoft's email cloud servers. [The Register]
08-12-2014: NSA warrantless bulk phone metadata spying continues unabated. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP]
08-12-2014: Idaho mom’s suit over NSA database gets a cool reception from appeals court. [Ars Technica]
07-12-2014: Spies can't make cyberspace secure AND vulnerable to their own attacks. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
07-12-2014: Judge: give NSA unlimited access to digital data. [HardOCP] [PCWorld]
08-12-2014: Demand to know what bad, shameful, dirty behaviour US judge Richard Posner is hiding. [The Intercept]
06-12-2014: Irish government retroactively legalizes GCHQ surveillance revealed in Snowden docs. [BoingBoing] [Irish Times]
05-12-2014: Nothing illegal to see here: Tribunal says TEMPORA spying is OK. [The Register] [BBC News] [The Register] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
04-12-2014: Ron Wyden introduces bill to ban FBI 'backdoors' in tech products. [The Verge] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing]
04-12-2014: AURORAGOLD: how the NSA gets inside every cellphone network in the world. [Gizmodo] [The Intercept] [BoingBoing] [Engadget] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [DC Knowledge] [Schneier]
01-12-2014: Feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, new legal case shows. [Ars Technica]
01-12-2014: Putting NSA/GSHQ spying together. [Schneier] [ElectroSpaces]
26-11-2014: US courts hope an old law will help them bypass phone encryption. [Engadget] [WSJ] [Gizmodo]
01-12-2014: Feds use 18th century law to force Apple to unlock encrypted phones. [Gizmodo] [The Register]
05-12-2014: Fact vs Fiction: the 225-year-old all writs act and encryption. [Gizmodo]
26-11-2014: The US/UK campaign to demonize social media companies as terrorist allies. [The Intercept]
26-11-2014: Five-eyes partners dilute UN resolution criticising metadata collection. [The Register]
25-11-2014: NSA source code leak: information slurp tools to appear online [The Register]
25-11-2014: New Snowden docs: GCHQ’s ties to telco gave spies global surveillance reach. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [Schneier] [SZ]
24-11-2014: NSA Privacy Director says fears of government spying are unwarranted. [Engadget]
23-11-2014: 'Snoopers' charter is dead', Lib Dems claim as party waves through IP address-matching. [The Register]
22-11-2014: Feds proposed the secret phone database used by local Virginia cops. [Ars Technica]
22-11-2014: Six journalists sue over surveillance by UK “extremist” police unit. [Ars Technica]
22-11-2014: Local judge unseals hundreds of highly secret cell tracking court records. [Ars Technica]
21-11-2014: Glenn Greenwald: NSA-proofing your product is good for business. [BoingBoing] [The Intercept]
21-11-2014: Some in NSA warned of a surveillance backlash. [NZ Herald]
21-11-2014: GCHQ and Cable and Wireless teamed as "Masters of the Internet". [The Register] [Channel4]
20-11-2014: US Congress won't limit the NSA: individuals, courts, and other nations must step up. [The Intercept]
20-11-2014: Top NSA official raised alarm about metadata program in 2009. [Ars Technica] [Schneier] [AP]
20-11-2014: Utah may cut off NSA's water in protest of mass surveillance. [BoingBoing] [Washington Post]
20-11-2014: Yet more NSA officials whisper of an internal revolt over US spying -- and yet it still goes on. [The Register]
19-11-2014: US Senate falls two votes short of shutting down NSA phone spying. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [Engadget] [USA Today] [DailyTech]
17-11-2014: The NSA's efforts to ban cryptographic research in the 1970s. [Schneier] [Medium]
17-11-2014: Tech companies ask The Senate to pass surveillance reform law. [HardOCP] [Engadget]
14-11-2014: Microsoft and others ask Europe to stop US feds seizing customer data. [The Register]
14-11-2014: Feds gather phone data from the sky with aircraft mimicking cell towers. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [WSJ] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [CNN] [DailyTech]
13-11-2014: Americans know about digital snooping but can’t stop it, survey finds. [The Register]
13-11-2014: Senate vote on NSA reform. [NationalJournal]
11-11-2014: Narrowly constructing national surveillance law. [Schneier] [VLR PDF]
06-11-2014: British spies are free to target lawyers and journalists. [The Intercept] [BoingBoing]
06-11-2014: Former NSA lawyer: if Google, Apple encrypt user data, they’ll wither on the vine like Blackberry. [DailyTech] [The Register]
09-11-2014: 'Tech giants who encrypt comms are unwittingly aiding terrorists', claims ex-Home Sec Blunkett. [The Register]
06-11-2014: NSA director: We share most of the [crap] bugs we find. [The Register]
05-11-2014: A top appeals court to hear why NSA metadata spying should stay or go. [Ars Technica]
04-11-2014: Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government. [The Guardian]
03-11-2014: UK's GCHQ chief says tech companies enable terrorism and child exploitation, wants them to better facilitate "lawful investigation". [FT] [The Register] [Stuff]
03-11-2014: Australia's going to need a standalone metadata retention bureau. [The Register]
01-11-2014: Curious to know if the UK's Tory-led government is a mega spy? Answer: Yes. [The Register]
30-10-2014: People trust the NSA more than Google. [HardOCP] [cNet]
29-10-2014: FBI proposes invasive new powers for hacking into computers. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [HardOCP] [BoingBoing]
29-10-2014: FBI turned off hotel internet, impersonated cable guy to catch gamblers. [Gizmodo] [AP] [BoingBoing] [Schneier]
12-11-2014: FBI defends “ruse” of undercover agents posing as hotel cable guys. [Ars Technica]
03-02-2015: Court tosses warrant where FBI cut Internet, posed as hotel repairmen. [Ars Technica]
29-10-2014: Human rights group: 'GCHQ's surveillance data gulp is bulky and warrantless'. [The Register]
28-10-2014: Verizon's tech news site will ignore the NSA and Net Neutrality. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [The Daily Dot]
28-10-2014: FBI planted phishing scam on fake Seattle Times page to trap a teen. [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [Seattle Times] [The Register] [Engadget] [Graham Cluley]
25-10-2014: GCHQ staff 'would sooner walk' than do anything 'resembling mass surveillance’. [The Register]
23-10-2014: NSA revelations have chilling effect on cloud growth in US. [DC Knowledge]
23-10-2014: 1 in 3 Americans are on file in the FBI's criminal database. [Gizmodo]
16-10-2014: FBI Director to citizens: let us spy on you. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [Washington Post]
15-10-2014: Mass internet surveillance threatens international law, UN report claims. [The Guardian]
15-10-2014: FOXACID operations manual. [Schneier]
14-10-2014: Cognitive Dissonance about the FBI and NSA at 60 Minutes. [BoingBoing]
14-10-2014: Call to probe UK firm over Bahraini 'spying' claims. [BBC News]
13-10-2014: Private donors supply spy gear to cops. [Pro Publica]
13-10-2014: FBI Director: don't trust government, but give it your data without transparency. [DailyTech]
13-10-2014: How James Bamford came to write The Puzzle Palace. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
13-10-2014: NZ embassies used by spies. [Stuff]
10-10-2014: NSA may have undercover operatives in foreign companies. [Wired] [Schneier] [BoingBoing] [The Intercept] [Ars Technica] [The Register]
09-10-2014: NSA mind-bender: we won’t tell you what info we already leaked to the media. [Wired]
09-10-2014: Gadgets held as evidence being remotely wiped. [BoingBoing]
08-10-2014: Google: US spying scandal will 'break the internet'. [HardOCP] [cNet] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [Wired]
08-10-2014: Ex spy chief defends post-Snowden NSA. [The Register]
08-10-2014: Twitter sues FBI, DoJ to release NSA info. [Stuff] [NZ Herald] [THG]
07-10-2014: Britain’s snooping powers are 'too weak', says NCA chief. [The Register]
05-10-2014: Cops and public bodies bungle snooping powers by spying on 3,000 law-abiding Brits. [The Register]
04-10-2014: NSA conducts massive surveillance without ANY Congressional oversight. [BoingBoing] [ACLU]
03-10-2014: William Binney explains NSA surveillance using Snowden's documents. [Schneier] [Alex O'Brien]
01-10-2014: New docs show how Reagan-era executive order unbounded NSA. [Ars Technica]
29-09-2014: Oracle plans German DCs to soothe NSA-ruffled nerves. [The Register]
26-09-2014: Apple, Google default cell-phone encryption “concerns” FBI director. [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [DailyTech] [Stuff]
30-09-2014: Holder urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police. [Washington Post]
02-10-2014: US top cop decries encryption, demands backdoors. [Ars Technica]
04-10-2014: Why US Feds and g-men kick up a stink about a growing smartphone encryption trend. [The Register]
09-10-2014: What default phone encryption really means for law enforcement -- and for you. [BoingBoing]
16-10-2014: FBI chief demands an end to cellphone security. [BoingBoing] [NYT] [NZ Herald] [Stuff]
26-09-2014: The entire Australian web can be monitored. [Stuff]
02-10-2014: Terrorists win under new Aussie spy laws. [Stuff]
24-09-2014: Julian Sanchez on the NSA and surveillance reform. [Schneier] [SoundCloud]
20-09-2014: Aaron Swartz's FBI and Secret Service files. [BoingBoing] [The Black Vault]
18-09-2014: Hidden message in Apple transparency reports suggest new NSA warrants. [Gizmodo] [GigaOM]
17-09-2014: Middle-school dropout codes clever chat program that foils NSA spying. [Wired]
15-09-2014: The NSA broke into big German networks to map their data traffic. [Engadget] [TripWire]
17-09-2014: Deutsche Telekom denies allegations of NSA, GCHQ breach. [DC Knowledge]
15-09-2014: Government demands for Google user data skyrockets. [HardOCP] [Google]
15-09-2014: Say hello to the FBI's national facial recognition system. [HardOCP] [Engadget] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [DailyTech] [Ars Technica]
15-09-2014: New Zealand launched massive surveillance project while publicly denying it. [FirstLook] [The Register]
15-09-2014: It's a 'sound and light show'. [Stuff]
14-09-2014: The NSA has a plan to map the entire Internet. It’s called ‘Treasure Map’. [HardOCP] [VentureBeat]
14-09-2014: US and Brit spooks 'tap into German telco networks to map end devices'. [The Register] [Der Spiegel]
11-09-2014: The NSA was going to fine Yahoo $250k per day if it didn't join PRISM. [Gizmodo] [Washington Post] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Wired] [Schneier]
10-09-2014: NSA employees increasingly leave the agency to start security companies like Synack, Virtru, and Morta Security. [Forbes]
09-09-2014: Report: Congress won’t shut down NSA database this year. [Ars Technica]
06-09-2014: Warrantless phone snooping happens all the time in the UK. [The Register]
06-09-2014: Meet the spooky tech companies getting rich by making NSA surveillance possible. [BoingBoing] [ZDNet]
06-09-2014: When NSA and FBI call for surveillance takeout, these companies deliver. [Ars Technica]
03-09-2014: NSA defender grilled by US judges. [Stuff]
29-08-2014: Australia makes pinkie-promise to end Indonesia spying. [The Register]
28-08-2014: Jacob Appelbaum on Americans' false belief that the NSA isn't targeting them. [BoingBoing]
28-08-2014: The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni. [Ars Technica]
25-08-2014: NSA built “Google-like” interface to scan 850+ billion metadata records. [Ars Technica] [The Intercept] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [The Register] [NZ Herald] [TripWire]
21-08-2014: Save the net, break up the NSA. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
20-08-2014: Australian surveillance law will legalize snooping on and hacking the entire Internet. [BoingBoing] [ZDNet]
26-08-2014: Oz metadata retention won't include URLs: report. [The Register]
18-08-2014: Germany 'accidentally' snooped on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. [The Register]
18-08-2014: NSA/GCHQ/CSEC infecting innocent computers worldwide. [Schneier] [Heise]
18-08-2014: QUANTUM technology sold by cyberweapons arms manufacturers. [Schneier]
15-08-2014: Revealed - GCHQ's incredible hacking tool to sweep net for vulnerabilities: Nmap. [The Register] [Heise] [Engadget]
15-08-2014: Reverse-engineering NSA malware. [Schneier] [Infosec Institute: part 1, part 2]
15-08-2014: Where is metadata anyway? [Geoff Huston]
14-08-2014: Facial recognition nabs 14-year fugitive in Nepal, FBI says. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [FBI] [cNet]
13-08-2014: Snowden: the worst NSA revelations are yet to come. [Gizmodo]
13-08-2014: The NSA collected more of your personal data than it was legally allowed to. [Engadget]
13-08-2014: MonsterMind - the NSA bot that could wage cyberwar autonomously. [Wired] [Engadget] [The Register] [BGR]
14-08-2014: Cyberwarfare program can be tricked - Snowden. [Stuff]
14-08-2014: Snowden went too far by revealing the NSA’s MonsterMind cyber weapon. [ExtremeTech]
13-08-2014: NSA was so drunk on data it forgot collection rules. [The Register]
13-08-2014: FCC to examine “unauthorized” cell snooping devices. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Washington Post]
11-08-2014: Surveillance court judge criticized NSA 'overcollection' of data. [WSJ]
11-08-2014: What is metadata, and why should I care? [Geoff Huston]
09-08-2014: Leaked docs show spyware used to snoop on US computers. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
06-08-2014: How a government program to track suspicious activities snared an unsuspecting photographer. [Imaging Resource]
05-08-2014: The FBI uses malware to combat online anonymity. [HardOCP] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
04-08-2014: NSA leaker Thomas Drake says Oz security reforms are 'scary'. [The Register] [The Register]
08-08-2014: Spooks, cops, say Oz metadata push is for consistency, not data grab. [The Register]
01-08-2014: Microsoft ordered to turn over customer data. [HardOCP] [Courthouse News]
01-08-2014: The NSA's patents. [Schneier] [Foreign Policy]
01-08-2014: Key denies spyware claims. [Stuff]
01-08-2014: CIA boss apologizes for snooping on Senate computers. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [NYT] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [DailyTech] [The Register]
31-07-2014: NSA notably uninvited to speak at Vegas hacker conferences this year. [BoingBoing]
30-07-2014: The NSA patented tech that will catch you swapping SIM cards. [Gizmodo]
29-07-2014: The costs of NSA surveillance. [Schneier] [New America: PDF] [Wired]
28-07-2014: EFF asks judge to rule NSA spying on Internet backbone undermines 4th Amendment. [BoingBoing]
28-07-2014: Microsoft denies it has ever been asked to plant a snooping backdoor into its products. [Graham Cluley]
28-07-2014: FISC judges own stock in telecoms they let NSA access. [Ars Technica] [Vice] [Engadget]
23-07-2014: White House caught secretly tracking web visitors with sneaky spyware. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
21-07-2014: Apple reaffirms it has never worked with any government agency to create a backdoor in any product or service. [iMore] [ReadWriteWeb]
23-07-2014: Back doors in Apple's mobile platform for law enforcement, bosses, spies. [BoingBoing] [Intego]
21-07-2014: US judge: yes, cops or feds so can slurp an entire Gmail account. [The Register]
20-07-2014: Anti-NSA messages projected on US embassy in Berlin. [BoingBoing] [The Verge]
18-07-2014: A convicted hacker and an Internet icon join forces to thwart NSA spying. [Wired]
18-07-2014: Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
18-07-2014: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [The Register] [Gizmodo]
17-07-2014: UK, the world’s most surveilled state, begins using automated face recognition to catch criminals. [ExtremeTech]
18-07-2014: Cops nab suspect using facial recog system. [The Register]
15-07-2014: NSA 'back doors' in US software standards. [Stuff]
15-07-2014: In the name of security, German NSA committee may turn to typewriters. [Ars Technica] [HotForSecurity] [The Register]
14-07-2014: Everyone hates the NSA: survey. [BoingBoing] [Pew Global]
14-07-2014: Hearings into mass surveillance begin in UK. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
14-07-2014: Understanding #DRIP: new spy powers being rammed through UK Parliament. [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group]
14-07-2014: Snowden: #DRIP "defies belief," could have been dreamed up by NSA. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
14-07-2014: GCHQ catalog of exploit tools. [Schneier] [The Intercept] [BoingBoing] [Engadget] [BBC News] [Ars Technica] [BGR]
14-07-2014: Tribunal to hear legal challenge to GCHQ surveillance claims. [BBC News]
14-07-2014: Emails show NSA monitored destruction of Snowden data at The Guardian. [Ars Technica]
13-07-2014: NSA and GCHQ earn Internet villain awards. [HardOCP] [Recombu]
12-07-2014: Washington Post reporter on the how and why of latest NSA revelations. [Gizmodo]
09-07-2014: EFF releases high-resolution photo of NSA's Utah data-center. [BoingBoing] [EFF] [Gizmodo]
09-07-2014: FBI and NSA targeted Muslim-American lawyers. [Wired] [The Intercept] [Gizmodo] [Schneier] [BoingBoing] [The Register] [Engadget] [BBC News]
09-07-2014: After racial slurs in NSA materials leaked, White House asks security agencies to clean up. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
09-07-2014: Glenn Greenwald on why the latest Snowden leak matters. [Wired]
10-07-2014: Rights groups decry new NSA leak: Snooping on Muslim-Americans’ e-mail. [Ars Technica]
07-07-2014: Mega cloud biz group says NSA just one among many threats. [The Register]
06-07-2014: Of 160,000 intercepted messages, only 10% from official targets. [Ars Technica] [Washington Post] [Stuff] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Schneier] [HardOCP]
07-07-2014: Latest leak "devastating to NSA defenders". [BoingBoing] [The Atlantic]
04-07-2014: Germany spy arrested on suspicion of spying for NSA. [BoingBoing] [DW] [The Register]
09-07-2014: Second German suspected of spying for NSA. [BoingBoing] [Reuters]
03-07-2014: Is there another NSA leaker? [SecurityCurrent]
03-07-2014: NSA man says agency can track you through power lines. [The Register]
03-07-2014: NSA targets privacy-conscious for surveillance. [Schneier] [BoingBoing] [Das Erste] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Stuff] [Wired] [BBC News] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [cNet] [HardOCP] [ProPublica]
04-07-2014: The NSA thinks Linux Journal is an “extremist forum”? [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [ZDNet]
04-07-2014: What do we want? CAT VIDEOS! How do we get them? TOR! [The Register]
03-07-2014: John Key ignored GCSB advice on hacking. [Stuff]
02-07-2014: NSA, GCHQ spies have hurt us more than they know. [The Register]
02-07-2014: ISPs take legal action against GCHQ. [BBC News] [The Register] [Wired] [BoingBoing]
02-07-2014: Oversight board finds little wrong with NSA surveillance programme. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [DailyTech] [Stuff]
02-07-2014: New Snowden docs: NSA spies on pretty much everyone abroad. [Ars Technica]
01-07-2014: How traffic shaping can help the NSA evade legal oversight. [Schneier]
01-07-2014: Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show. [Washington Post]
01-07-2014: All the NSA revelations in one easy-to-read chart. [Gizmodo] [BGR]
30-06-2014: FBI, CIA use backdoor searches to warrentlessly spy on Americans' communications. [TechDirt]
30-06-2014: Remaining Snowden docs will be released to avert 'unspecified US war' – Cryptome. [The Register]
27-06-2014: NSA's first ever 'transparency' 'report' is anything but. [The Register] [HardOCP] [IC on the Record] [The Verge] [Engadget] [Stuff]
27-06-2014: Germany ends government contract with Verizon over NSA worries. [Ars Technica] [AP] [HardOCP] [Reuters]
25-06-2014: Snarky lawmaker reminds former NSA chief that selling state secrets is illegal. [Wired]
26-06-2014: More on Hacking Team's government spying software. [Schneier]
24-06-2014: UK secretary of state: "There is no surveillance state". [BoingBoing] [BBC News]
24-06-2014: Microsoft has become completely fed up with the U.S. government’s surveillance programmes. [BGR]
24-06-2014: US data center providers neutral on government access to customer data stored overseas. [DC Knowledge]
23-06-2014: Australian spy agencies in line for new digital surveillance powers. [The Guardian]
22-06-2014: The NSA's mass surveillance program for phone call metadata is still going. [Engadget] [HardOCP]
26-06-2014: Cops must have a warrant to search cell phones, rules Supreme Court. [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [DailyTech]
21-06-2014: NZ welcomed back to spy network in 2009. [Stuff]
20-06-2014: More details on NSA tapping the Internet backbone. [Schneier]
20-06-2014: House votes to cut key pursestrings for NSA surveillance. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [The Register] [Vox]
20-06-2014: Pakistan, Iran, and… USA? New heatmap shows where NSA hacks. [Ars Technica]
20-06-2014: Tell a lie, remove the gear: how the NSA covers up when cable taps are found. [Ars Technica]
19-06-2014: NSA helps foreign governments conduct mass surveillance at home. [BoingBoing] [The Intercept]
19-06-2014: Feds asked cops to deceive courts about use of spy tool, emails show. [Wired] [Ars Technica]
19-06-2014: Hackers reverse-engineer NSA spy kit using off-the-shelf parts. [The Register] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [New Scientist] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
19-06-2014: Now that they are being more closely watched, lawmakers voice concern over NSA surveillance. [BoingBoing] [WSJ]
19-06-2014: Microsoft: NSA security fallout 'getting worse,' 'not blowing over'. [The Register]
19-06-2014: NSA ‘third party’ partners tap the Internet backbone in global surveillance programme. [Information]
18-06-2014: NSA’s data center back in the shadows after government manoeuvre. [Wired]
18-06-2014: Germany is NSA's largest listening post, according to new report based on Snowden leaks. [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel]
18-06-2014: The British government just set a dangerous precedent for online spying. [Gizmodo]
17-06-2014: UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use. [Privacy International]
17-06-2014: Stingray, the fake cell phone tower cops and providers use to track your every move. [ExtremeTech]
21-06-2014: Legal experts: Cops lying about cell tracking “is a stupid thing to do”. [Ars Technica]
17-06-2014: FBI's 83-page glossary of leetspeak. [BoingBoing] [MuckRock] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [Stuff]
17-06-2014: GCHQ claims right to do warrantless mass interception of all webmail, search and social media. [BoingBoing] [BBC News]
17-06-2014: Congressman asks NSA to provide metadata for “lost” IRS e-mails. [Ars Technica]
14-06-2014: Gov’t must give up 5 secret surveillance docs for court to review, judge orders. [Ars Technica]
13-06-2014: New ruling shows the NSA can’t legally justify its phone spying anymore. [Wired]
11-06-2014: Microsoft resists US government demand to seize offshore emails. [Engadget] [NZ Herald]
11-06-2014: Cops can’t collect your cell tower data without a warrant, court rules. [Wired] [HardOCP] [The Guardian]
10-06-2014: NSA: We're too complex to comply with law, so we're destroying evidence in EFF lawsuit. [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [Gizmodo]
10-06-2014: Tony Abbott: five eyes spies good for us. [The Register]
07-06-2014: Judge: NSA doesn’t have to keep all data as part of key surveillance lawsuit. [Ars Technica]
06-06-2014: Vodafone: spooks are plugged directly into our network. [The Register] [Engadget] [Wired]
07-06-2014: Vodafone says 6 nations have “direct access” to spy on its customers. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
05-06-2014: 65 things we know about NSA surveillance we didn’t know a year ago. [Gizmodo]
05-06-2014: One year after Snowden, what's really changed? [Gizmodo]
05-06-2014: Hi-tech firms battle with NSA fallout. [BBC News] [iMore] [Apple Insider] [GottaBeMobile]
05-06-2014: NSA: Inside the five-eyed vampire squid of the Internet. [The Register]
03-06-2014: Google renews battle with the NSA by open sourcing email encryption tool. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [ReadWriteWeb]
03-06-2014: GCHQ's beyond TOP SECRET Middle Eastern Internet spy base. [The Register] [Gizmodo] [Schneier]
03-06-2014: How the NSA could bug your powered-off phone, and how to stop them. [Wired] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo]
03-06-2014: The 5 dumbest ways that people defend NSA spying. [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [Stuff]
01-06-2014: NSA facial recognition: combining national ID cards, Internet intercepts, and commercial facial databases for millions of people. [BoingBoing] [NYT] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BBC News]
03-06-2014: What the NSA can (and can’t) mine from intercepted photos. [Ars Technica]
03-06-2014: NSA says it's not collecting images of US citizens for facial recognition. [Engadget]
04-06-2014: No worries: NSA chief says facial recognition program is totally legal. [Ars Technica]
30-05-2014: Exactly how the NSA violates human rights. [Gizmodo]
30-05-2014: Warrantless spying makes spying-with-a-warrant impossible. [BoingBoing]
28-05-2014: Germany says 'nein' to NSA hacking prosecution. [The Register]
27-05-2014: Meet the guy hired to ensure Snowden docs aren't hacked. [BoingBoing] [Mashable]
23-05-2014: Did GCHQ reveal secrets about computer insecurity when it exorcised the Snowden leaks from the Guardian's laptops? [BoingBoing] [Privacy International]
23-05-2014: Wikileaks says NSA recording all calls in Afghanistan. [BoingBoing] [The Verge] [Gizmodo]
23-05-2014: New NYT editor spiked NSA spying story. [BoingBoing]
23-05-2014: Microsoft swats away FBI request for Office 365 subscriber data. [The Register]
22-05-2014: Michael Geist on the state of surveillance in Canada. [BoingBoing]
21-05-2014: Google, Facebook warn NSA bill wouldn't stop mass surveillance. [National Journal]
21-05-2014: Congress guts law to restrict NSA spying, civil liberty groups appalled. [The Register] [BoingBoing] [EFF] [The Verge] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget]
21-05-2014: The NSA is not made of magic. [Schneier]
21-05-2014: How the NSA is transforming law enforcement. [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [EFF]
21-05-2014: California lawmakers make modest attempt to halt NSA data collection. [Ars Technica]
20-05-2014: Fine line seen in US spying on companies. [NYT]
20-05-2014: NSA's future rests on Admiral Rogers. [Stuff]
19-05-2014: NSA records every cell phone call in the Bahamas. [BoingBoing] [First Look] [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
14-05-2014: The three big lies: how the federal government kept its post-9/11 spying on Americans a secret. [TechDirt]
14-05-2014: Sprint had legal details of the NSA's bulk phone data collection in 2010. [Engadget]
14-05-2014: NSA docs detail efforts to collect data from Microsoft’s Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com. [TechCrunch]
14-05-2014: GCHQ's 'Nosey Smurf' spyware snoops dragged into secretive tribunal. [The Register]
14-05-2014: Encrypted or not, Skype communications prove “vital” to NSA surveillance. [Ars Technica]
13-05-2014: Microsoft, NSA and FBI reveal secret 3-way romance. [BoingBoing] [TechCrunch]
13-05-2014: New NSA Snowden documents. [Schneier] [Glenn Greenwald PDF]
13-05-2014: Legal complaint filed against GCHQ 'hacking'. [BBC News]
12-05-2014: Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004. [PRI]
10-05-2014: Intelligence employees, current and past, barred from citing news leaks. [Ars Technica]
08-05-2014: Stross on NSA network sabotage. [BoingBoing] [AntiPope]
08-05-2014: An avalanche of new Snowden documents will go online next week. [Engadget]
07-05-2014: Former NSA chief defends stockpiling software flaws for spying. [Wired] [BoingBoing]
07-05-2014: Spy boss won't say if Snowden has NZ files. [Stuff]
06-05-2014: Google discusses security with the NSA, but don't draw any wild conclusions. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Schneier]
05-05-2014: Bill to end NSA's mass surveillance moves closer to a vote. [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
08-05-2014: House Committee axes NSA bulk phone metadata collection. [Ars Technica]
30-04-2014: British spy chiefs secretly begged to play in NSA’s data pools. [The Intercept]
30-04-2014: Every 27 seconds, Canadian telcos hand over subscriber data to cops (mostly without a warrant). [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
29-04-2014: NSA spying means Brazil's $4.5B fighter jets won't be built by Boeing. [BoingBoing] [Reuters]
28-04-2014: Former NSA head Keith Alexander interviewed by John Oliver. [BoingBoing]
27-04-2014: Mathematicians: refuse to work for the NSA! [BoingBoing] [New Scientist]
25-04-2014: Verizon challenges NSA's bulk records collection; FISC says it's perfectly legal. [TechDirt] [Engadget]
21-04-2014: Activists want net neutrality, NSA spying debated at Internet governance conference. [PCWorld]
16-04-2014: Why the original patriots would’ve revolted against surveillance. [Gizmodo]
11-04-2014: US to Angela Merkel: no, you can't see your NSA file but we promise we aren't spying on you anymore. [BoingBoing]
10-04-2014: Google to President: leave us out of your spying fight. [HardOCP] [NationalJournal]
09-04-2014: NSA spies on human rights groups, including those in the USA. [BoingBoing] [TechCrunch]
09-04-2014: Obama privacy chief wants NSA phone-snooping program to end now. [Ars Technica]
08-04-2014: US Supreme Court declines to hear NSA mass phone-slurp case. [The Register]
07-04-2014: New Captain America movie with clear anti-NSA message is a massive hit abroad. [BGR]
07-04-2014: If Obama wanted the NSA to quit storing phone metadata, he’d act now. [Ars Technica]
05-04-2014: 50% of Americans changed their behavior due to NSA. [HardOCP] [TechDirt]
04-04-2014: Snowden docs show GCHQ discussed using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for covert propaganda. [The Intercept]
03-04-2014: Introducing the ACLU's NSA documents database. [ACLU]
03-04-2014: Yahoo beefs up security. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
03-04-2014: Over 200 NSA documents collected and made searchable, from Snowden to Prism. [Engadget]
02-04-2014: What, besides phone records, does the NSA collect in bulk? [Ars Technica]
01-04-2014: NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans' calls and emails – Clapper. [The Guardian]
01-04-2014: NSA-inspired software sped up code-cracking efforts. [BBC News]
01-04-2014: Snowden leaks made us look twice at cloud suppliers. [The Register]
31-03-2014: NSA chief's legacy is shaped by big data, for better and worse. [LA Times]
31-03-2014: The NSA's been spying on every single call, text, and email in Iraq. [Gizmodo]
31-03-2014: Eric Schmidt on the NSA. [BoingBoing]
31-03-2014: NSA wiretapped 122 world leaders; GCHQ penetrated German satellite companies for mass surveillance potential. [BoingBoing] [First Look] [Der Spiegel] [The Register]
29-03-2014: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies. [Der Spiegel]
29-03-2014: NSA may have spied on 122 foreign leaders. [Engadget]
28-03-2014: Feds want an expanded ability to hack criminal suspects’ computers. [Ars Technica]
27-03-2014: Experts: NSA rules leave privacy vulnerable. [Stuff]
26-03-2014: MIT creates a system to “PRISM-proof” websites. [Ars Technica] [BGR]
25-03-2014: The Best NSA Fix Comes From the Patriot Act’s Author. [The Daily Beast]
25-03-2014: White House to propose law to end NSA bulk collection of phone data. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BBC News] [BGR] [The Verge]
28-03-2014: How the NSA would get phone data under Obama administration’s new plan. [Ars Technica]
24-03-2014: Jimmy Carter: I think the NSA is spying on me. [Gizmodo] [The Hill] [Stuff]
21-03-2014: Revelations of NSA spying cost US tech companies. [NYT]
21-03-2014: NSA vs puzzles. [BoingBoing] [Mashable]
20-03-2014: Barack Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA. [Politico]
20-03-2014: Inside the NSA's secret efforts to hunt and hack system administrators. [First Look] [The Register] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
20-03-2014: Hacked emails show what Microsoft charges the FBI for user data. [The Daily Dot] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
20-03-2014: NSA may start transparency reports. [BBC News] [Engadget] [re/code]
19-03-2014: Why does the NSA want to keep its water usage a secret? [Wired] [Gizmodo] [ReadWriteWeb]
19-03-2014: NSA top lawyer says tech giants knew about data collection. [HardOCP] [cNet] [Engadget] [The Register] [BGR]
19-03-2014: Judge rebukes Feds for overbroad search warrant applications for e-mail. [Ars Technica]
19-03-2014: NSA collects all calls in a foreign country. [Stuff] [BoingBoing] [Washington Post] [DailyTech] [BGR] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
19-03-2014: NSA's MYSTIC reaches 'into the past'. [Stuff] [Schneier] [Washington Post] [HardOCP]
21-03-2014: How the NSA turns back the clock on phone taps without choking on data. [Ars Technica]
18-03-2014: A 10-point plan to keep the NSA out of our data. [Wired]
18-03-2014: US intelligence oversight group from 1975 says things are way worse now. [Ars Technica]
17-03-2014: How Google can repel the attack of the NSA Quantum computer. [Wired]
16-03-2014: IBM: We gave NOTHING to the NSA, stateside or elsewhere. [The Register] [HardOCP] [Smarter Planet] [ZDNet]
24-03-2014: An open letter to IBM's open letter. [Schneier] [The Register]
15-03-2014: British spies lied about getting super-censorship powers over YouTube. [BoingBoing]
15-03-2014: Congress was giving spies a pass back in 1975, too. [BoingBoing]
14-03-2014: New NSA chief explains agency policy on “zero-day” exploits to Senate. [Ars Technica]
14-03-2014: In two key cases, activists now ask judge to order NSA metadata preservation. [Ars Technica]
14-03-2014: Mark Zuckerberg 'confused and frustrated' by US spying. [BBC News] [Stuff] [Facebook] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [DailyTech]
19-03-2014: Facebook fights back against the NSA spying machine. [Wired]
13-03-2014: A close look at QUANTUM -- the NSA's most powerful Internet attack tool. [Wired] [Schneier]
13-03-2014: How the NSA exploits VPN and VoIP traffic. [Schneier] [First Look]
13-03-2014: How international human rights law should be applied to NSA spying. [Gizmodo] [EFF]
13-03-2014: NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world. [Ars Technica]
12-03-2014: NSA Director nominee wants every branch of the military to have a dedicated cyber attack force. [Engadget]
12-03-2014: NSA's TURBINE robot pumps 'malware into MILLIONS of PCs''. [The Register] [BGR]
12-03-2014: The NSA has impersonated Facebook to spread malware. [Gizmodo]
14-03-2014: NSA denial in full: As of right now, we're not pretending to be Facebook or Twitter. [The Register] [TechCrunch] [Ars Technica] [BGR]
18-03-2014: Does the NSA have plans to infect millions of PCs with malware or not? [CollaboristaBlog]
13-04-2014: NSA 'hijack' criminal botnets for spyware. [Stuff] [BoingBoing] [First Look] [BGR] [Wired] [Engadget]
12-03-2014: New information on NSA's QUANTUM programme. [Schneier] [First Look]
12-03-2014: STELLARWIND classification guide. [Schneier] [Amazon S3 PDF]
11-03-2014: How FISA moved from approving wiretap requests to justifying bulk data collection. [NYT]
11-03-2014: British spies are ruining the internet. [HardOCP] [DailyDot]
11-03-2014: CIA hacked Senate PCs to delete torture reports. And Senator Feinstein is outraged. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
11-03-2014: NSA phone-record destruction halt won by privacy group. [Bloomberg] [Engadget] [MobileBurn] [HardOCP]
10-03-2014: US government is creating an electronic monitoring system for employees. [Engadget]
08-03-2014: WikiLeaks head doesn't believe Obama is serious about NSA reform. [Engadget]
06-03-2014: Middle schooler wins C-SPAN prize for doc about NSA spying. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
05-03-2014: CIA spied on Senate committee writing damning torture report and Obama knew about it. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
05-03-2014: Journalist: NSA won’t give me a secure channel to communicate on. [Ars Technica]
01-03-2014: NSA head floats idea: What if we only gathered terrorist communications? [Ars Technica]
28-02-2014: Spy agency intercepts Yahoo webcam chats, nudes and all. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BGR] [Stuff] [DailyTech] [ExtremeTech] [cNet]
27-02-2014: FBI and Secret Service phone calls intercepted by Google Maps exploit. [Gizmodo] [Gawker]
27-02-2014: Feds refuse to release public comments on NSA reform -- citing privacy. [Wired]
27-02-2014: Q&A: Schneier on trust, NSA spying and the end of US internet hegemony. [The Register]
26-02-2014: NSA wants to expand phone database because of privacy suits. [HardOCP] [NationalJournal] [WSJ] [The Register]
26-02-2014: Schneier: NSA snooping tactics will be copied by criminals in 3 to 5 years. [The Register]
26-02-2014: President already looking at early options for NSA revamp. [GottaBeMobile]
25-02-2014: Split the NSA in two, says security firm embroiled in NSA scandal. [Wired]
25-02-2014: The NSA may be responsible for iOS 7′s biggest security vulnerability. [BGR]
25-02-2014: NSA uses the Internet to 'manipulate and destroy reputations'. [HardOCP] [TechDirt]
25-02-2014: Microsoft: NSA snooping? Code backdoors? Our hands are clean! [The Register]
24-02-2014: NSA moves from bugging German Chancellor to bugging German ministers. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [DailyTech]
21-02-2014: Break up the NSA and save American spooks from themselves. [BoingBoing] [CNN] [Schneier]
19-02-2014: Reading between the lines of redacted NSA documents. [Wired]
19-02-2014: Clapper: We should have disclosed NSA bulk data collection in 2001. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [The Daily Beast]
18-02-2014: New Snowden docs show NSA, GCHQ spied on WikiLeaks, Pirate Bay users. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [First Look] [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak] [BoingBoing] [BGR]
17-02-2014: Outgoing NSA director: ‘It’s not our mission’ to spy on everyone in the world. [BGR]
17-02-2014: Who should store NSA surveillance data? [Schneier] [Slate]
13-02-2014: US senator sues President Obama to stop NSA metadata dragnet. [Ars Technica] [DailyTech] [BoingBoing]
10-02-2014: Tuesday declared 'The Day we Fight Back' against NSA. [The Register] [ReadWriteWeb] [Wired]
11-02-2014: The day the Internet didn't fight back. [NYT Bits]
10-02-2014: Six NSA workers exposed. [Stuff]
09-02-2014: "A reason to hang him": how mass surveillance, secret courts, confirmation bias and the FBI can ruin your life. [BoingBoing] [Al Jazeera]
08-02-2014: Turning table on NSA, US diplomats' phone call is bugged, leaked to YouTube. [Ars Technica]
07-02-2014: NSA collects 20% or less of US cell data. [WSJ] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
07-02-2014: FISA court agrees to changes that limit NSA's ability to query phone records. [TechDirt] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
07-02-2014: 'I plead guilty to DDoS conspiracy and these GCHQ b*stards were doing the SAME thing?' [The Register]
07-02-2014: Twitter may sue US government over right to disclose snooping orders. [The Register]
07-02-2014: Snowden documents show British digital spies use viruses and 'honey traps'. [The Register]
05-02-2014: Former NSA chief explains how Snowden gained high-level access. [BGR]
05-02-2014: The man who watches over the NSA. [BBC News]
05-02-2014: Snowden, NSA exploit kits, and commercial espionage. [EtherealMind]
03-02-2014: Want to email people without the FBI reading it? Try Safe-mail. [BGR]
03-02-2014: Shedding some light on FISA requests. [Google]
31-01-2014: Canadian spooks used free airport WiFi to track travellers. [The Register] [Engadget] [CBC News] [Ars Technica]
31-01-2014: How to stop the NSA? Start with new bills at each statehouse, activists say. [Ars Technica]
30-01-2014: David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance. [BoingBoing] [BBC News]
30-01-2014: In rare move, terrorism suspect challenges core of warrantless snooping law. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
30-01-2014: Catalog of Snowden revelations. [Schneier] [LawFare]
30-01-2014: Merkel: spying on allies harms security. [Stuff]
30-01-2014: Clapper: Snowden should return docs. [Stuff] [Ars Technica]
29-01-2014: Terror defendant challenges evidence gathered by NSA spying. [Wired]
29-01-2014: NSA phone-records spying is totally, utterly illegal. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
29-01-2014: Top lawyer finds GCHQ spying is illegal & UK spies who help US drone strike may be accessories to murder. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
28-01-2014: US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) condemns NSA mass surveillance. [Schneier]
28-01-2014: British spy agency said to target Apple's iPhone with remote surveillance exploit kit. [AppleInsider]
28-01-2014: British spies can remotely ‘Smurf’ your iPhone and Android phone. [BGR]
28-01-2014: British government reportedly tracking YouTube and Facebook data without permission. [Engadget] [BBC News]
27-01-2014: NSA slides reveal that spies grab data from Angry Birds and other apps. [GottaBeMobile] [The Guardian] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BGR] [HardOCP] [BoingBoing] [NYT] [MacRumors] [BBC News] [DailyTech]
28-01-2014: Angry Birds' Rovio angrily denies charges of NSA snooping. [iMore] [TechCrunch] [HardOCP] [Rovio] [BGR]
29-01-2014: Angry Birds website attacked following NSA spying allegations. [Graham Cluley] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [BoingBoing]
27-01-2014: NSA-GCHQ leaks: a glossary of the key terms. [BBC News]
27-01-2014: Google Chief Legal officer 'shocked' at Snowden revelations. [BBC News]
27-01-2014: Google's Drummond calls for new NSA reforms. [BBC News]
26-01-2014: NSA engaged in industrial espionage. [BBC News] [Stuff]
24-01-2014: European Court of Human Rights will hear case about GCHQ spying. [BoingBoing] [Privacy Not Prism]
24-01-2014: Tim Cook will 'absolutely' press Congress for more transparency over surveillance. [AppleInsider] [GottaBeMobile] [ABC News]
23-01-2014: US privacy watchdog advises NSA spying is illegal. [BBC News] [HardOCP] [Washington Post] [DaiyTech] [BGR] [Ars Technica] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
23-01-2014: Judge enforces spy orders despite ruling them unconstitutional. [Wired]
25-01-2014: White House refuses to accept that NSA phone dragnet is illegal. [Ars Technica]
22-01-2014: 13-year-old filmmaker's documentary on NSA spying. [BoingBoing] [YouTube]
22-01-2014: Google chairman Eric Schmidt is furious about NSA tapping. [BGR]
22-01-2014: Questioning the efficacy of NSA's bulk collection programmes. [Schneier]
21-01-2014: NSA surveillance revives calls for an all-encrypted Internet. [Network Computing]
21-01-2014 New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years. [Ars Technica]
16-01-2014: Rubberstamping FISA court can't be expected to actually oversee surveillance. [BoingBoing]
16-01-2014: The NSA scoops up 200 million random text messages every day. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [The Register] [GottaBeMobile] [BBC] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Schneier] [TrustedReviews]
17-01-2014: Text messages are ‘a goldmine to exploit’ for the NSA. [BGR]
18-01-2014: How the NSA collects millions of phone texts a day. [Ars Technica]
16-01-2014: Today I briefed Congress on the NSA. [Schneier] [GottaBeMobile] [BoingBoing]
16-01-2014: The silver lining of the NSA scandal. [ReadWriteWeb]
14-01-2014: NSA has radio pathway into computers, to spy even when device is offline [BoingBoing] [NYT] [The Register] [Engadget] [GottaBeMobile] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [BGR] [DailyTech] [Stuff]
14-01-2014: Report: NSA bulk metadata collection has “no discernible impact”. [Ars Technica] [NAF] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [Schneier]
13-01-2014: NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
13-01-2014: I spent 2 hours talking with the NSA's bigwigs -- here's what has them mad. [Wired]
09-01-2014: Obama readies revamp of NSA. [WSJ]
10-01-2014: Obama will announce NSA reforms on 17 January. [Gizmodo] [The Hill] [DailyTech] [BGR] [Stuff]
14-01-2014: Obama to place some restraints on surveillance. [NYT]
15-01-2014: Surveillance-court judges oppose White House group’s NSA proposals. [Washington Post]
16-01-2014: Obama NSA announcements just beginning. [Stuff]
16-01-2014: Scorecard for Obama's NSA reforms. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
17-01-2014: Obama said to keep NSA in charge of phone records for now. [Bloomberg] [BBC News]
17-01-2014: Obama's speech on NSA surveillance: more questions than answers. [GottaBeMobile] [MobileBurn]
17-01-2014: Obama's remarks on the NSA and surveillance. [BoingBoing]
17-01-2014: Obama's NSA reforms come up short. [Gizmodo] [The Register] [HardOCP] [Reuters] [DailyTech] [The Register] [BGR] [ExtremeTech] [The Verge] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
17-01-2014: Everything you need to know about Obama’s NSA reforms, in plain English. [Washington Post]
17-01-2014: With NSA reforms, Obama offers peace to a wary Silicon Valley. [Wired]
17-01-2014: Why Obama's NSA reforms won't solve Silicon Valley's trust problem. [Wired]
17-01-2014: EFF's scorecard rates Obama's proposed NSA reforms. [EFF] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing]
17-01-2014: Obama will prevent NSA from looking at phone records without a legal reason. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
19-01-2014: Tech industry: NSA reforms 'insufficient'. [Stuff]
18-01-2014: Obama’s restrictions on NSA surveillance rely on narrow definition of ‘spying’. [Washington Post]
20-01-2014: Obama pledges to continue mass searches. [DailyTech]
29-01-2014: Obama stays silent on reform of NSA's crypto subversion. [Wired]
09-01-2014: NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary inquiry. [The Guardian]
08-01-2014: NSA scandal prompting shift away from US providers. [DC Knowledge]
08-01-2014: How should states fight the NSA? Turn off the water, say some. [Ars Technica]
07-01-2014: Everything we know about NSA spying. [Graham Cluley]
07-01-2014: Burglars who took on FBI abandon shadows. [NYT] [Schneier]
07-01-2014: How the NSA almost killed the Internet. [Wired]
07-01-2014: NSA: a threat to national security. [BoingBoing] [The Atlantic] [Schneier]
07-01-2014: Qualcomm CEO on NSA: "We can't comment on that". [DailyTech]
07-01-2014: Obama set to approve “public advocate” position, more NSA reforms. [Ars Technica]
06-01-2014: NSA revelations: the 'middle ground' everyone should be talking about. [The Guardian]
06-01-2014: Time travellers outsmart the NSA. [The Register]
04-01-2014: NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress. [The Guardian] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
06-01-2014: NSA refuses to answer to Congress. [DailyTech]
04-01-2014: NSA spying, favorite gadgets, New Year's resolutions and more. [Engadget]
03-01-2014: NSA documents from Spiegel story. [Schneier]
03-01-2014: Cost/benefit analysis of NSA's 215 metadata collection programmes. [Schneier] [OSU PDF]
02-01-2014: NSA scandal has spawned an industry for spy-proof smartphones. [BGR]
02-01-2014: The NSA's trying to build a quantum computer that cracks all encryption. [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [Washington Post] [BBC News] [The Register] [HardOCP] [BGR] [ExtremeTech] [Wired] [Engadget] [DailyTech]
02-01-2014: NSA exploit of the day:
CANDYGRAM [Schneier] [LeakSource]
COTTONMOUTH-I [Schneier] [LeakSource]
COTTONMOUTH-II [Schneier] [LeakSource]
COTTONMOUTH-III [Schneier] [LeakSource]
CROSSBEAM [Schneier] [LeakSource]
CTX4000 [Schneier] [LeakSource]
CYCLONE Hx9 [Schneier] [LeakSource]
DEITYBOUNCE [Schneier] [LeakSource]
DROPOUTJEEP [Schneier] [LeakSource]
ENTOURAGE [Schneier] [LeakSource]
ESBR [Schneier] [LeakSource]
FEEDTHROUGH [Schneier] [LeakSource]
FIREWALK [Schneier] [LeakSource]
GENESIS [Schneier] [LeakSource]
GINSU [Schneier] [LeakSource]
GOPHERSET [Schneier] [LeakSource]
GOURMETTROUGH [Schneier] [LeakSource]
HALLUXWATER [Schneier] [LeakSource]
HEADWATER [Schneier] [LeakSource] [BoingBoing]
HOWLERMONKEY [Schneier] [LeakSource]
IRATEMONK [Schneier] [LeakSource]
IRONCHEF [Schneier] [LeakSource]
JETPLOW [Schneier] [LeakSource]
JUNIORMINT [Schneier] [LeakSource]
LOUDAUTO [Schneier] [LeakSource]
MAESTRO-II [Schneier] [LeakSource]
MONKEYCALENDAR [Schneier] [LeakSource]
NIGHTSTAND [Schneier] [LeakSource]
NIGHTWATCH [Schneier] [LeakSource]
PHOTOANGLO [Schneier] [LeakSource]
PICASSO [Schneier] [LeakSource]
RAGEMASTER [Schneier] [LeakSource]
SCHOOLMONTANA [Schneier] [LeakSource]
SIERRAMONTANA [Schneier] [LeakSource]
SOMBERKNAVE [Schneier] [LeakSource]
SOUFFLETROUGH [Schneier] [LeakSource]
SPARROW II [Schneier] [LeakSource]
STUCCOMONTANA [Schneier] [LeakSource]
SURLYSPAWN [Schneier] [LeakSource]
SWAP [Schneier] [LeakSource]
TAWDRYYARD [Schneier] [LeakSource]
TOTECHASER [Schneier] [LeakSource]
TOTEGHOSTLY 2.0 [Schneier] [LeakSource]
TRINITY [Schneier] [LeakSource]
TYPHON HX [Schneier] [LeakSource]
WATERWITCH [Schneier] [LeakSource]
WISTFULTOLL [Schneier] [LeakSource]
Post mortem: NSA exploits of the day. [Schneier]
02-01-2014: Hackers vs the NSA in 1986. [BoingBoing]
01-01-2014: Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic. [Ars Technica]
2013 – News / Articles
31-12-2013: Federal Court: No suspicion needed for laptop searches at border. [BoingBoing] [ACLU]
01-01-2014: Judge won’t let student challenge electronics searches at US border. [Ars Technica] [NYT] [Engadget]
03-01-2014: What happens if authorities seize your laptop? [BBC News]
27-12-2013: Fight the spies, says Chaos Computer Club. [Wired]
25-12-2013: The Snowden Effect... Why 2014 will be the year of private cloud. [The Register]
23-12-2013: People are more freaked out by hacking than tracking. [HardOCP] [WSJ ATD]
22-12-2013: Why does privacy matter? [BoingBoing] [Github]
22-12-2013: Ars readers react to the light on their webcams. [Ars Technica]
19-12-2013: Verizon plans to issue transparency report, despite silence on NSA co-operation. [ZDNet]
19-12-2013: Here are some incredibly simple ways to keep your information private. [BGR]
19-12-2013: Your phone logs everywhere you go -- here's how to turn it off. [Lifehacker]
19-12-2013: Webcam spying without turning on the LED? Researchers prove it’s possible. [Graham Cluley]
19-12-2013: Transparency report: government removal requests continue to rise. [Google] [Engadget]
18-12-2013: Italy passes Internet censorship laws: regulator can censor sites on 12 days' notice without judicial review. [BoingBoing] [ZDNet]
18-12-2013: TOR user identified by FBI. [Schneier] [Ars Technica]
17-12-2013: Neither Snowden nor the NSA puts CIOs off the cloud, it's just FUD. [The Register]
15-12-2013: Facebook saves everything you type. [Stuff] [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [LA Times]
12-12-2013: Cisco's new cloud service may thwart NSA spying. [HardOCP] [WSJ]
12-12-2013: What does the post-Snowden internet need? A price list. [The Register]
12-12-2013: Crypto weakness in Web comment system exposes hate-mongering politicians. [Ars Technica]
11-12-2013: People didn't trust the Internet before there even was one. [Gizmodo]
10-12-2013: French agency caught minting SSL certificates impersonating Google. [Ars Technica]
10-12-2013: World of Spycraft: NSA, GCHQ hacked WoW and Xbox Live, other games. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BGR] [The Guardian] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [DailyTech] [ExtremeTech] [NZ Herald] [Stuff] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ] [THG] [BBC News] [Schneier]
10-12-2013: Snowden leak examines gaming as a terrorist propaganda and training tool. [Ars Technica]
09-12-2013: Tech giants issue call for limits on government surveillance of users. [NYT] [Engadget] [AppleInsider] [TUAW] [Stuff] [ReadWriteWeb] [The Register] [BGR] [ExtremeTech] [Ars Technica]
08-12-2013: Who's spying? Who isn't? [Stuff]
05-12-2013: Shock revelation: Telstra manages its networks. [The Register]
10-12-2013: Telstra tries to hose down “network management snooping” story. [The Register]
04-12-2013: GCSB head: Kiwis' offshore data not protected from spies. [NZ Herald]
02-12-2013: Edward Snowden revelations prompt UN investigation into surveillance. [The Guardian]
30-11-2013: Researchers use NSA’s own tactics to see how invasive NSA spying is. [BGR]
29-11-2013: UK.gov's web filtering mission creep: Now it plans to block 'extremist' websites. [The Register]
26-11-2013: It's no surprise anymore: your data is never safe online. [Lifehacker]
25-11-2013: US working to kill UN resolutions to limit international surveillance. [Schneier] [Foreign Policy]
25-11-2013: This infographic shows which sites properly encrypt your data. [Lifehacker] [EFF]
25-11-2013: Surveillance as a business model. [Schneier]
22-11-2013: Lavabit strikes back at Feds in key Internet privacy case. [Wired]
22-11-2013: Berners-Lee: 'Growing tide of surveillance' is destroying the internet. [The Register] [TechCrunch] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
22-11-2013: Post Prism: The new meaning of spyware. [BBC News]
21-11-2013: Say hello to Safeplug, Pogoplug’s $49 Tor-in-a-box for anonymous surfing. [GigaOM]
21-11-2013: Sweden's telcos hand over mass spying powers to police, tax authority, customs and other agencies. [BoingBoing] [Falkvinge]
21-11-2013: Eric Schmidt predicts end of censorship. [Stuff] [Bloomberg]
20-11-2013: Vint Cerf: 'Privacy may be an anomaly, now over -- and it's no secret I think that'. [The Register] [Gizmodo]
20-11-2013: US senators say there’s “no evidence” bulk metadata surveillance is useful. [Ars Technica]
19-11-2013: Lavabit founder: Feds ordered email providers to stay open. [The Register]
19-11-2013: Schneier tells Washington NSA broke Internet’s security for everyone. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
19-11-2013: Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
19-11-2013: Google, Microsoft tighten search rules. [Stuff]
18-11-2013: The CIA is trying to stop Russia building monitoring stations in the US. [Gizmodo]
18-11-2013: GCHQ tracks diplomats' hotel bookings to plant bugs, say leaked docs. [The Register]
16-11-2013: Progress made on internet filters, says government. [BBC News]
15-11-2013: What is China censoring today? [BoingBoing] [BBC News]
15-11-2013: The CIA has a vast database of international money transfers. [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing]
14-11-2013: CIA's financial spying bags data on Americans. [WSJ]
14-11-2013: A fraying of public/private surveillance partnership. [Schneier]
14-11-2013: Government requests for user information double over three years. [Google] [WSJ ATD] [Engadget]
13-11-2013: The NYT on why it delayed first surveillance story. [BoingBoing] [NYT]
12-11-2013: In Lavabit appeal, US doubles down on access to web crypto keys. [Wired]
11-11-2013: Deutsche Telekom to offer firms 'clean pipe' against hackers. [Reuters] [Engadget]
11-11-2013: GCHQ hijacked LinkedIn profiles to hack Belgian telecoms network. [The Register] [Der Spiegel] [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica]
11-11-2013: Secure email a "daunting challenge". [BoingBoing] [The New Yorker]
11-11-2013: UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages. [Ars Technica]
10-11-2013: How to protect your phone from the police. [Gizmodo]
08-11-2013: Kim Dotcom’s NSA-proof messaging, video chat service due in 2014. [BGR]
07-11-2013: Brit spymasters: Cheers, Snowden. Terrorists are overhauling their comms. [The Register]
07-11-2013: How Google paved the way for NSA's intercepts - just as The Register predicted 9 years ago. [The Register]
07-11-2013: Brazil makes it official: Gov email must be state-run and on-premises. [The Register]
12-11-2013: Brazil debates internet law in wake of NSA scandal. [BBC News]
07-11-2013: UK spy chiefs face Snowden grilling. [Stuff]
07-11-2013: Firm uses cell network, cloud for surveillance work. [NZ Herald]
06-11-2013: Crowdfunded audit of 'NSA-proof' encryption suite TrueCrypt is go. [The Register]
06-11-2013: Apple reveals government data requests. [BBC News]
06-11-2013: Lavabit’s primary security claim wasn’t actually true. [Ars Technica]
08-11-2013: Lavabit’s founder responds to cryptographer’s criticism. [Ars Technica]
09-11-2013: Lavabit, secure email? Hardly, says infosec wizard Moxie Marlinspike. [The Register]
06-11-2013: China's smog interferes with spying. [Stuff]
06-11-2013: Locke wins battle with GCSB. [Stuff]
06-11-2013: Shadowy VPN firm says it has industry’s first transparency report. [Ars Technica]
05-11-2013: Revealed: Britain's 'secret listening post in the heart of Berlin'. [The Independent]
05-11-2013: Privacy group demands spy details from telecom firms. [BBC News]
04-11-2013: Anti-spying activists take telco complaint to the OECD. [GigaOM]
04-11-2013: UK Government reportedly bans iPads from secret meetings for fear of spying. [iMore]
04-11-2013: Germany: European spy agencies swap tech tips. [Stuff]
03-11-2013: Explaining the banned phrases in a Chinese microblogging client. [BoingBoing] [Tumblr]
03-11-2013: Swisscom builds 'Swiss Cloud' as spying storm rages. [Reuters] [The Register]
01-11-2013: GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance. [The Guardian]
01-11-2013: Close-in surveillance using your phone's WiFi. [Schneier] [Washington Post]
01-11-2013: New Zealand taking spy risks, says Labour. [Stuff]
31-10-2013: Tech giants ensnared by NSA spying petition Congress for surveillance reform. [Engadget] [Washington Post]
31-10-2013: NSA leaks helping India become 'Big Brother' state? [BBC News]
30-10-2013: Lavabit and Silent Circle join forces to make all email surveillance-proof. [Forbes] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [iMore] [The Guardian] [Engadget] [BGR]
05-11-2013: Lavabit founder takes to Kickstarter to open source a new end-to-end encryption message protocol. [TechCrunch] [Engadget] [The Register]
29-10-2013: David Cameron threatens injunction against the Guardian to stop further Snowden leak publications. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
29-10-2013: Arguing for NSA-level Internet surveillance. [Schneier] [New Republic] [USNews]
28-10-2013: How one small American VPN company is trying to stand up for privacy. [Ars Technica]
26-10-2013: Techniques for counter-surveillance. [BBC News]
26-10-2013: UK spies were terrified that the willing cooperation of telcos would get out; understood they were breaking the law. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
26-10-2013: HOWTO protect yourself from Internet surveillance, EFF edition. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
25-10-2013: Anonymity network ToR needs a tune-up to protect users from surveillance. [MIT]
25-10-2013: Beyond the Great Firewall: China's global censorship campaign. [The Register]
23-10-2013: Snowden revelations hit war on terror as EU MPs call for suspension of data-sharing deal. [GigaOM]
22-10-2013: Huawei: No govt has asked for user data. [Stuff]
22-10-2013: Why is the internet so insecure? [Stuff]
21-10-2013: Google announces uProxy: internet censorship avoidance in a browser extension. [Engadget]
21-10-2013: Forget the NSA, that spy may be your spouse. [Stuff]
18-10-2013: Identifying cell phones through sensor imperfections. [Schneier]
18-10-2013: Apple says theoretical exploits be damned, they can't read your iMessages. [iMore] [TUAW] [Apple Insider] [MacRumors] [GottaBeMobile] [WSJ ATD]
21-10-2013: Is iMessage secure? The good, the bad, and the complicated. [iMore]
17-10-2013: Extent of spy agencies' surveillance to be investigated by parliamentary body. [The Guardian]
17-10-2013: EC: NSA slurps scare you? Europe's clouds are open for business. [The Register]
17-10-2013: David Cameron vows vengeance on the Guardian for Snowden leaks. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
17-10-2013: Thanks to NSA, German e-mail providers see flood of new customers. [Ars Technica]
16-10-2013: Removing my children from the Internet. [Gizmodo]
15-10-2013: Think you can live offline without being tracked? Here's what it takes. [FastCompany]
15-10-2013: Meet SecureDrop, a new lock box for whistleblowers. [Time] [Schneier] [FotPF]
15-10-2013: Stealthy technique fingerprints smartphones by measuring users’ movements. [Ars Technica]
15-10-2013: Deutsche Telekom to push for national routing to curtail spying. [Bloomberg]
14-10-2013: Lavabit reinstates service briefly so users can download e-mails, change passwords. [Engadget] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
14-10-2013: NZ govt backs down over spy bill clause. [NZ Herald]
14-10-2013: Europe won’t save you: why e-mail is probably safer in the US. [Ars Technica]
14-10-2013: German telco hopes to hide traffic from spies. [Stuff]
13-10-2013: Which governments prioritise privacy and whic lay on the spying? [Gizmodo] [VentureBeat]
12-10-2013: Malala to Obama: US use of drones is 'fueling terrorism'. [BoingBoing]
12-10-2013: Top sites (and maybe the NSA) track users with “device fingerprinting”. [Ars Technica]
12-10-2013: Lavabit’s appeal: We’re actually not required to wiretap our own users. [Ars Technica] [Volokh]
11-10-2013: Brazil's anti-NSA prez urged to SNATCH keys to the internet from America. [The Register]
13-10-2013: Brazil announces secure email to counter US spying. [AFP] [The Register] [Ars Technica]
11-10-2013: New head of CIA's National Clandestine Service profiled in Newsweek. [BoingBoing] [Newsweek]
11-10-2013: What effect does mass surveillance have on journalism in the US? We're finding out. It's not good. [BoingBoing] [Tow Center]
11-10-2013: Amid NSA outrage, big tech companies plan to track you even more aggressively. [Wired]
11-10-2013: Canadian operator EasyDNS stands firm against London cops. [The Register]
10-10-2013: Lavabit files opening brief in landmark privacy case. [Wired] [BoingBoing]
08-10-2013: German NSA has deal to tap ISPs at major Internet Exchange. [Ars Technica]
07-10-2013: Want to evade NSA spying? Don't connect to the Internet. [Wired]
06-10-2013: Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi. [The Guardian]
04-10-2013: Can we trust the spying state? [BBC News]
03-10-2013: Facebook and Cisco in Wi-Fi hookup to track your retail, social life. [The Register]
02-10-2013: How Feds bullied Lavabit into shutting down. [Gizmodo] [Wired] [Engadget] [WSJ ATD]
02-10-2013: As FBI pursued Snowden, an email service stood firm. [NYT]
03-10-2013: Unsealed Lavabit docs show that Feds demanded SSL keys. [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [ReadWriteWeb]
03-10-2013: Snowden's email provider gave crypto keys to FBI – on paper printouts. [The Register]
08-10-2013: How Lavabit Melted Down. [BoingBoing] [The New Yorker]
02-10-2013: US spy court says internet firms can't report surveillance requests. [The Register]
02-10-2013: BitTorrent thinks it can make your online chat secure. [Gizmodo]
01-10-2013: 'I don't trust Microsoft' after NSA disclosures says former privacy chief. [The Register]
01-10-2013: WhoIs privacy and proxy service abuse. [Schneier] [ICANN] [Light Blue Touchpaper]
30-09-2013: John McAfee wants to NSA-proof the internet with a device called Decentral. [Engadget] [The Register] [HardOCP] [The Verge] [Stuff]
30-09-2013: Disbarred "pirate site" lawyer preps NSA-proof email. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
28-09-2013: NSA Internet spying sparks race to create offshore havens for data privacy. [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
28-09-2013: How the FBI found Miss Teen USA’s webcam spy. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
27-09-2013: Feds targeted Lavabit the day after Snowden went public. [Wired]
26-09-2013: Lavabit's attorneys want court to unseal case files. [BoingBoing] [RT]
25-09-2013: China loosens web censorship in free trade zone. [Stuff]
24-09-2013: Dropbox also wants to disclose national security requests. [WSJ ATD]
23-09-2013: Metadata equals surveillance. [Schneier]
21-09-2013: LinkedIn customers allege company hacked email addresses. [Bloomberg] [WSJ ATD] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [Stuff]
21-09-2013: LinkedIn calls email hacking charges false. [WSJ ATD] [HardOCP] [LinkedIn Blog] [The Register]
21-09-2013: Senator asks if FBI can get iPhone 5S fingerprint data via Patriot Act. [Ars Technica]
01-10-2013: Anonymous claims Apple's Touch ID hands over fingerprints to the NSA. [GottaBeMobile]
20-09-2013: Google knows almost every WiFi password in the world. [Schneier] [ComputerWorld]
19-09-2013: Dear photographers: the government is watching you. [Fstoppers]
19-09-2013: China crackdown ploy to nail critics. [Stuff]
19-09-2013: Zuckerberg says US spying hurt users' trust. [Stuff]
17-09-2013: LinkedIn challenges NSA disclosure rules in court filing. [WSJ ATD] [TNW] [The Register] [BBC News]
17-09-2013: Lavabit email founder goes to great lengths to avoid email, post-Snowden. [WSJ ATD]
17-09-2013: Iran social media block removed by technical hitch. [BBC News] [WSJ ATD] [Engadget]
08-10-2013: Iran not unblocking Facebook, Twitter. [Stuff]
17-09-2013: Box aims for NSA-resistant cloud security with customers holding the keys. [Ars Technica]
16-09-2013: WHOIS privacy plan draws fire. [Krebs]
16-09-2013: How the cops watch your tweets in real-time. [Ars Technica]
15-09-2013: Eric Schmidt says government surveillance is just part of our society. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian]
14-09-2013: Google: all your passwords belong to us. [HardOCP] [Business Insider]
13-09-2013: The FISA court will release more opinions because of Snowden. [Washington Post]
13-09-2013: Hardware hacker learns his E-ZPass is being read all over NYC, not just at toll booths. [BoingBoing] [Forbes]
13-09-2013: Secret spy spy court demands government transparency on surveillance programmes. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
12-09-2013: Inside the effort to crowdfund NSA-proof email and chat services. [Vice Motherboard]
12-09-2013: China's Little Brothers cleanse online chatter. [Stuff]
11-09-2013: Protecting yourself from NSA web surveillance. [Network Computing]
10-09-2013: No warrant, no problem: US government uses travel alerts for warrantless electronics search. [ZDNet]
10-09-2013: Federal court denies Google request to dismiss privacy lawsuit. [ReadWriteWeb]
10-09-2013: US border laptop searches: the other warrantless surveillance. [BoingBoing] [ACLU]
10-09-2013: China cracks down on net rumours. [Stuff]
09-09-2013: A petition for greater transparency. [Google Blog]
09-09-2013: Indian spooks snooping without ISP knowledge. [The Register]
08-09-2013: US NSA and UK GCHQ 'can spy on smartphones'. [BBC News]
09-09-2013: Smartphone users now under NSA's grasp: no one is safe from US spying. [GottaBeMobile]
08-09-2013: Wikileaks details how NZ spies will work. [Stuff]
07-09-2013: Majority of Tor crypto keys could be broken by NSA, researcher says. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
07-09-2013: 90 percent of Tor keys can be broken by NSA: what does it mean? [BoingBoing] [Errata Security]
07-09-2013: Let us count the ways: how the feds (legally, technically) get our data. [Ars Technica]
06-09-2013: Amid NSA spying scandal, Yahoo releases transparency report on gov data requests. [BoingBoing] [Yahoo]
05-09-2013: NSA's decade-long plan to undermine encryption includes backdoors, stolen keys, manipulating standards. [Wired]
06-09-2013: NSA’s pipe dream: Weakening crypto will only help the “good guys”. [Ars Technica]
06-09-2013: Yes, Internet: Your citizens still want their anonymity. [Ars Technica]
05-09-2013: NSA's decade-long plan to undermine encryption includes backdoors, stolen keys, manipulating standards. [Wired]
05-09-2013: Attempts by UK, US govs to suppress reporting on NSA not working out so great. [BoingBoing] [Huffington Post]
05-09-2013: Google argues for right to continue scanning Gmail. [HardOCP] [USA Today]
05-09-2013: How to remain secure against NSA surveillance. [The Guardian] [BoingBoing] [Schneier]
06-09-2013: Response: how to remain secure against NSA surveillance. [EtherealMind]
05-09-2013: The anonymous Internet is under attack. [Gizmodo]
05-09-2013: Hot newly revitalized dev trend: NSA-proof email. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
01-09-2013: Boffins follow TOR breadcrumbs to identify users. [The Register]
31-08-2013: Feds plow $10 billion into “groundbreaking” crypto-cracking programme. [Ars Technica]
30-08-2013: Judge says search warrants for emails must be 'limited'. [NYT Blog]
30-08-2013: Microsoft, Google press lawsuit on government spying data. [ReadWriteWeb] [TechNet Blog]
31-08-2013: When Google and Microsoft "Stand Together" against US spying, you know stuff just got real. [BoingBoing]
29-08-2013: Tor usage up by more than 100% in August. [The Register]
06-09-2013: Sudden spike of Tor users likely caused by one “massive” botnet. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
06-09-2013: Snoops can identify Tor users given enough time, experts say. [Ars Technica]
29-08-2013: Australian spy agency taps undersea cables. [Stuff]
28-08-2013: Feds target polygraph-beating company. [Schneier] [McClatchy]
27-08-2013: Feds back away from forced decryption -- for now. [Wired]
27-08-2013: Detaining David Miranda. [Schneier]
27-08-2013: Government requests to Facebook outlined in report. [BBC News]
28-08-2013: Facebook reveals NZ official requests. [Stuff]
26-08-2013: Lavabit alternative MyKolab offering lite version and cloud storage to help you dodge the NSA. [Engadget]
26-08-2013: Open secret about Google's surveillance case no longer secret. [WSJ]
26-08-2013: The next-generation communications privacy act. [Schneier] [SSRN]
26-08-2013: How might the feds have snooped on Lavabit? [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
24-08-2013: New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom. [Ars Technica] [TechDirt]
23-08-2013: UK’s secret Middle East internet surveillance base revealed in Edward Snowden leaks. [The Independent]
23-08-2013: Snowden denies being source of The Independent's "NSA leak" story exposing UK base. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
23-08-2013: Obama’s reported “outside experts” surveillance review panel has deep ties to gov’t. [Ars Technica]
22-08-2013: Obama administration to Supreme Court: allow warrantless smartphone searches. [DailyTech]
22-08-2013: Lavabit founder chafes under NSA scrutiny, speaks out against govermental privacy violations. [Engadget] [The Guardian]
22-08-2013: Four ways the Guardian could have protected Snowden – by the NSA. [The Register]
22-08-2013: US military interest in NZ cable. [Stuff]
21-08-2013: EFF wins big: secret FISA court opinion will be released. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
20-08-2013: Why Kolab might be the best secure email service still standing. [Gizmodo]
20-08-2013: Groklaw shuts down over fears of email snooping. [BoingBoing] [Groklaw] [ReadWriteWeb] [The Register] [TechDirt] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
20-08-2013: Teens and privacy. [Schneier] [Pew Internet]
18-08-2013: Paranoid Browsing: anti-profiling plugin seeks feedback. [BoingBoing]
17-08-2013: Ars Technicast, Ep. 32: NSA, Snowden, and why Lavabit had to go down. [Ars Technica]
16-08-2013: Why can't email be secure? [Silent Circle]
15-08-2013: Why doesn't Google encrypt all of your data? [Gizmodo]
16-08-2013: Why Google's now encrypting data in the cloud. [ReadWriteWeb]
15-08-2013: NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds. [Washington Post]
14-08-2013: NSA, DEA, IRS lie about fact that Americans are routinely spied on by our government: time for a special prosecutor. [Forbes]
13-08-2013: Google: Gmail users have no legitimate expectation of privacy. [HardOCP] [RT] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [TUAW]
14-08-2013: Keep calm -- Google didn't just screw Gmail user privacy. [ReadWriteWeb]
14-08-2013: Yes, Gmail users have an expectation of privacy. [The Verge]
15-08-2013: Google back foot over Gmail snooping claims. [Stuff]
15-08-2013: Google: yes, we "read" your Gmail. [DailyTech]
13-08-2013: NZ prime minister John Key: We have to spy on you because al-Qaeda has training camps here. [BoingBoing] [RDP]
12-08-2013: The secure mail dilemma: If it's useable, it's probably insecure. [The Register]
12-08-2013: Encrypted email isn’t secure, but if you must use it, here are some Lavabit alternatives. [ExtremeTech]
12-08-2013: Deutsche Telekom launches 'NSA-busting' encrypted email service. [The Register]
10-08-2013: Kim Dotcom's encrypted email service ready for 2014. [HardOCP] [The Enquirer] [Gizmodo] [RT] [Stuff]
10-08-2013: Pirate Bay releases 'PirateBrowser' to sail round censorship, mark ten years on the ocean wave. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [TorrentFreak] [Stuff] [ReadWriteWeb] [BGR] [ExtremeTech]
08-08-2013: The Pirate Bay: BitTorrent site sails to its 10th birthday. [BBC News] [HardOCP] [The Verge]
12-08-2013: The Pirate Bay's new censorship-dodging browser 'not secure'. [The Register]
12-08-2013: The Pirate Bay now distributing the 'PirateBrowser' package. [Hexus]
13-08-2013: PirateBrowser: Firefox 23 + Tor, scores 100,000 downloads in 3 days. [DailyTech]
10-08-2013: White House talks privacy, surveillance with tech CEOs, Vint Cerf, and others. [Ars Technica]
09-08-2013: Deutsche Telekom snubs U.S. email servers after snooping scandal. [Reuters]
08-08-2013: Rebuilding the Internet from scratch. [HardOCP] [New Scientist]
08-08-2013: Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down. [BoingBoing] [The Register] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [Forbes] [Stuff] [Stanford] [iMore] [Schneier] [BBC News] [DailyTech] [HardOCP] [NZ Herald]
08-08-2013: 16 people who got screwed when Snowden's email provider shut down. [Gizmodo]
09-08-2013: After Lavabit shutdown, another encrypted e-mail service closes. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [TechCrunch] [Gizmodo]
09-08-2013: How the government killed a secure email company. [The New Yorker]
10-08-2013: Lavabit founder has stopped using email: "If you knew what I know, you might not use it either". [BoingBoing] [Forbes]
13-08-2013: On Lavabit's shutdown. [WSJ ATD]
16-08-2013: Lavabit's owner threatened with arrest for shutting down rather than spying on customers. [BoingBoing] [NBC]
19-08-2013: Snowden's email provider may face court rap after closing service. [The Register]
06-08-2013: US drug agency gets intel from NSA, then lies about its origins to build cases. [Ars Technica]
03-08-2013: Spy agencies addicted to corporate data. [Stuff]
03-08-2013: Kiwis seek reassurance on state surveillance. [Stuff]
03-08-2013: No spying on Kiwis under Clark. [Stuff]
04-08-2013: Drop GCSB bill, Dunne urged. [Stuff]
06-08-2013: Can NZ say no to the US? [NZ Herald]
16-08-2013: Key gives GCSB email assurance. [Stuff]
19-08-2013: Officials defend GCSB 'net secrecy. [Stuff]
19-08-2013: Rowdy crowd protest GCSB Bill at meeting. [Stuff]
20-08-2013: Spy bill hanging on single vote. [Stuff]
20-08-2013: Officials defend GCSB web secrecy. [Stuff]
20-08-2013: Labour's spy bill changes to be blocked. [Stuff]
21-08-2013: Kiwis do care, prime minister. [Stuff]
21-08-2013: Controversial GCSB laws pass by two votes. [Stuff]
22-08-2013: Spy bill passes into law amid wide criticism. [Stuff]
12-09-2013: Greens make new bid to ditch 'Skynet' law. [Stuff]
02-08-2013: FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software. [cNet] [HardOCP]
02-08-2013: UK border cops can seize and retain all your data without suspicion or charge. [BoingBoing]
02-08-2013: Forget PRISM -- the FBI can listen in on any conversation at any time if you use Android. [GottaBeMobile] [WSJ] [The Register] [BGR] [TrustedReviews] [HardOCP]
02-08-2013: FBI pays for malware so it can spy on us with our phones and computers. [BoingBoing]
02-08-2013: FBI turning to private sector to hack phones, exploit unknown security holes. [Engadget] [DailyTech]
02-08-2013: Is your company Edward Snowden-proof? [IT Brief]
01-08-2013: The FBI can remotely activate microphones in Android phones to record conversations. [Gizmodo] [WSJ] [GottaBeMobile] [The Register] [BGR] [TrustedReviews] [HardOCP]
01-08-2013: Proof the FBI monitors your Google searches? [HardOCP] [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [The Register]
01-08-2013: People smugglers, terrorists make GCSB list. [Stuff]
31-07-2013: FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot Act sharing. [Ars Technica]
31-07-2013: The world is watching. [Juniper]
30-07-2013: Cops can track cellphones without warrants, appeals court rules. [Wired]
30-07-2013: Surveillance State Repeal Act: repealing the PATRIOT Act and some of FISA. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
29-07-2013: Obama's continuing war against leakers. [Schneier]
28-07-2013: US spy agencies eavesdrop on Kiwi. [Stuff] [BoingBoing]
27-07-2013: The FBI has used spy drones without warrants at least 10 times. [Gizmodo] [Rand Paul: PDF]
26-07-2013: How did we get to where we are now with online privacy? [Gizmodo] [PBS YouTube]
24-07-2013: The secret FISA court must go. [Daily Beast]
18-07-2013: How Facebook builds a digital signature for you and your world. [Wired]
17-07-2013: Bipartisan backlash grows against domestic surveillance. [NYT]
16-07-2013: Yahoo's blazing the trail to transparency in the post-PRISM world. [Gizmodo]
16-07-2013: A problem with the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. [Schneier]
16-07-2013: Online anonymity is possible. [Stuff]
15-07-2013: Leaked letter shows ISPs and government at war. [BBC News]
13-07-2013: John Key slams watchdog report on spying laws. [Stuff]
10-07-2013: US vs. Bradley Manning: defense rests, Manning won't testify, Wikileaks gets respect. [BoingBoing]
10-07-2013: Five things Snowden leaks revealed about NSA’s original warrantless wiretaps. [Ars Technica]
09-07-2013: Nation will gain by discussing surveillance, expert tells privacy board. [NYT]
09-07-2013: France kills three-strikes copyright disconnections. [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak] [Ars Technica] [BBC News]
09-07-2013: Snowden blunts US push to curb cyber theft. [Stuff]
09-07-2013: Snowden's Australian "revelations" are old news. [The Register]
08-07-2013: Crooked cops abuse FBI database. [Stuff]
05-07-2013: Of mice, the NSA, GCHQ and data protection. [The Register]
04-07-2013: France 'has vast data surveillance' - Le Monde report. [BBC News] [Engadget] [GigaOM] [The Register]
03-07-2013: Bookstore owner was victim of US snail mail surveillance. [BoingBoing]
03-07-2013: Government is tracking all your snail mail too. [Gizmodo] [NYT] [The Register]
02-07-2013: Nation's leaders meet over GCSB. [Stuff]
03-07-2013: GCSB power too great, hearing told. [Stuff]
03-07-2013: Dotcom, NZ PM clash over spy laws. [The Register]
04-07-2013: Kim Dotcom slams New Zealand government over spying plans. [BGR]
04-07-2013: Committee won't call GCSB. [Stuff]
05-07-2013: Spy law committee 'blindfolded'. [Stuff]
17-07-2013: Calls widen for GCSB law probe. [Stuff]
22-07-2013: PM tries to shore up GCSB bill. [Stuff]
23-07-2013: Dunne turnaround on spy bill. [Stuff]
26-07-2013: Labour: we'll dump GCSB bill. [Stuff]
28-07-2013: Kiwis rally against 'snoops' charter' law. [The Register]
09-08-2013: Lawyer hits back at PM's attack. [Stuff]
01-07-2013: What happens on G-Cloud stays on G-Cloud. [The Register]
01-07-2013: New argument in forced-decryption case: defendant's memory is ticking clock. [Wired]
01-07-2013: Feds say encryption to foil wiretaps is on the rise. [BoingBoing]
28-06-2013: Facebook's outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying. [cNet]
28-06-2013: Encryption has foiled wiretaps for first time, Feds say. [Wired]
27-06-2013: Secret US spy court lets Microsoft, Google reveal their petitions. [The Register]
25-06-2013: Transparency Report: making the web a safer place. [Google] [Krebs] [GigaOM] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
24-06-2013: US surveillance is not aimed at terrorists. [Bloomberg]
24-06-2013: MPAA kicks Kickass Torrents off Google with 'precision takedown'. [TorrentFreak]
24-06-2013: Europeans will now know when and what data gets compromised in a breach -- unless it was encrypted. [TechCrunch]
24-06-2013: Australia shelves plans to store phone, Internet metadata. [Reuters] [Engadget]
22-06-2013: Duck Duck Go's post-PRISM growth actually proves no one cares about private search. [Search Engine Land]
20-06-2013: France, Spain launch probe into Google's privacy law. [BBC News]
21-06-2013: France threatens Google with privacy fines. [NZ Herald] [BGR] [TrustedReviews] [Engadget]
20-06-2013: Introducing Aaron's law, a desperately needed reform of the computer fraud and abuse act. [Wired] [Ars Technica]
18-06-2013: TOR users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic. [The Register]
17-06-2013: Assange: Google is just an arm of the US government. [The Register]
17-06-2013: Facebook's Graph Search gets more data. [Stuff]
17-06-2013: German spy agency to boost web monitoring. [Stuff]
17-06-2013: ISPs to include porn filters as default in UK by 2014. [Ars Technica]
16-06-2013: GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits. [The Guardian] [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [DailyTech]
16-06-2013: White House steps up defence of surveillance programmes. [WSJ ATD]
15-06-2013: Google builds new system to eradicate child porn images from the web. [The Telegraph] [HardOCP] [VentureBeat] [ReadWriteWeb] [BGR] [PetaPixel]
18-06-2013: Major UK ISPs commit to zero tolerance policy for online child porn. [TrustedReviews]
14-06-2013: Participants call for end date on Do Not Track talks. [SFGate]
14-06-2013: Japan proposes NSA-style agency and new snooping laws. [The Register]
13-06-2013: FBI's use of Patriot Act to collect US citizen's records up 1000%. [BoingBoing] [NBC]
13-06-2013: Interception bill could harm Internet economy -- InternetNZ. [Voxy]
12-06-2013: FISA court rejects catch-22 secrecy argument in FOIA case. [EFF]
12-06-2013: Lessig: it's time to rewrite the internet to give us better privacy and security. [BoingBoing] [The Daily Beast]
12-06-2013: The IRS is in your internets, watching your financial transactions. [BoingBoing] [MSN]
11-06-2013: Expert says Kiwis under constant surveillance. [Stuff]
07-06-2013: Warner Bros: we're fining file-sharers who use non six-strike ISPs. [TorrentFreak]
07-06-2013: As senators defend mass-surveillance, Patriot Act FOIA lawsuit still awaits. [Ars Technica]
06-06-2013: All major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn, violence filters. [The Register]
05-06-2013: Australia's de-facto Internet filter may block 250k sites. [The Register]
05-06-2013: Saudi Arabia bans Viber web communication tool. [Reuters] [BBC News]
05-06-2013: Federal judge grants reprieve to suspect facing forced hard drive decryption. [DailyTech] [Ars Technica]
04-06-2013: European ISPs could soon be barred from throttling traffic, blocking content. [BGR]
04-06-2013: Deadline looms for suspect to decrypt laptop, or go directly to jail. [Wired]
04-06-2013: The Pirate Bay outs porno copyright trolls: they're the ones pirating their own files. [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak] [The Register]
08-06-2013: Pirate Bay suggests Prenda did create honeypot for downloaders. [Ars Technica]
04-06-2013: ISPs criticise automatic porn blocks. [BBC]
02-06-2013: French "three strikes" piracy law faces major reversal. [HardOCP] [NYT]
02-06-2013: Julian Assange's NYT op-ed: the banality of "Don't Be Evil". [BoingBoing] [NYT]
31-05-2013: Judge to Google: comply with warrantless FBI data requests. [BoingBoing] [cNet] [Stuff] [BGR]
29-05-2013: CIA whistleblower's astounding letter about his prison life. [BoingBoing] [The Dissenter]
29-05-2013: The FBI ran a child porn site for two whole weeks. [Gizmodo] [SF Chronicle] [DailyTech]
28-05-2013: Anti-piracy commission asks Congress for ransomware and spy tools. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
25-05-2013: Google builds bigger crypto keys to make site forgeries harder. [Ars Technica]
18-05-2013: Aussie government tries to block 2 sites, takes down 1200. [Ars Technica]
17-05-2013: Australia's net filter sneaks into operation through back door. [The Register]
16-05-2013: Company that oversees US "six strikes" copyright shakedown has its company status revoked. [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak]
16-05-2013: Cops should get warrants to read your email, Attorney General says. [Wired]
15-05-2013: Federal judge: only powered-off cell phones deserve privacy protection. [HardOCP] [ACLU]
12-05-2013: Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops -- Google can remotely reset password for Android devices. [BoingBoing] [cNet]
11-05-2013: Identity thieves caught by Instagramming dinner. [Gizmodo] [Sun Sentinel] [PetaPixel] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
11-05-2013: DRM in HTML5 is a victory for open web, not a defeat. [Ars Technica]
10-05-2013: FBI's latest proposal for a wiretap-ready Internet should be trashed. [Wired]
10-05-2013: President Obama issues executive order to make government data open and machine readable. [Engadget]
07-05-2013: Is the US government recording and saving all domestic telephone calls? [Schneier] [CNN] [HardOCP] [cNet]
09-05-2013: FBI claims right to read your email, just like other federal agencies. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
06-05-2013: Michael Chertoff on Google Glass. [Schneier] [CNN]
05-05-2013: NORKS power down whole towns to find pirates. [The Register]
02-05-2013: Spyware used by government poses as Firefox, and Mozilla is angry. [Ars Technica]
02-05-2013: More on FinSpy/FinFisher. [Schneier]
28-04-2013: MPAA executive admits to tampering with key evidence in Finnish topsite trial. [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak]
25-04-2013: Google report shows record rise in government takedown requests. [The Register] [BGR] [Engadget]
25-04-2013: FBI denied permission to spy on hacker through his webcam. [Ars Technica]
25-04-2013: Senate chairman calls for 'Do Not Track' bill. [Stuff]
24-04-2013: How to prevent the 'Do Not Track' arms race. [Wired]
22-04-2013: Japanese police ask ISPs to start blocking Tor. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
18-03-2013: YouTube still protected under DMCA, says judge -- Viacom sent packing. [Engadget] [The Register]
17-04-2013: Telcos will have to work with spies: govt. [Stuff]
12-04-2013: Cyber security bill pits tech giants against privacy activists. [LA Times]
11-04-2013: Fifth member of BitTorrent piracy ring given 23-month sentence. [Ars Technica]
10-04-2013: IRS claims it can read your email without a warrant. [cNet] [DailyTech] [Gizmodo]
09-04-2013: WikiLeaks to world: we're still relevant -- really! [ReadWriteWeb]
07-04-2013: French spies demand removal of a Wikipedia entry, threated random Wikipedia admin in France if they don't get their way. [BoingBoing] [Wikimedia] [The Register]
04-04-2013: Studios regret sending Google a list of every pirate site on the Internet for publication. [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak] [Gizmodo]
01-04-2013: The Russian government has started censoring the Internet. [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [NYT]
26-03-2013: FBI pursuing real-time Gmail spying powers as top priority for 2013. [Slate] [Gizmodo]
26-03-2013: Germany: ISPs cannot be forced to store data on file sharers. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
25-03-2013: Saudi Arabie threatens Skype ban. [BBC News]
25-03-2013: Departing commissioner says net neutrality was FCC's biggest recent failure. [Ars Technica]
22-03-2013: FBI secretly spying on cloud computer users. [Schneier] [Wired] [Wired] [BBC News]
21-03-2013: How the DMCA punishes people with disabilities. [BoingBoing] [Slate]
18-03-2013: Feds: no warrant needed to track your car with GPS. [HardOCP] [Wired] [Gizmodo]
22-03-2013: Bills would mandate warrant for GPS tracking, cellphone location data. [Wired]
14-03-2013: Wiretapping firm says telecom providers could be handing over more data than authorised. [Slate]
09-03-2013: New bill to protect your webmail and location privacy needs your support. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
07-03-2013: Gone in 30 minutes: Chinese tweets purged by army of censors. [The Register] [Gizmodo] [MIT Tech Review]
07-03-2013: Copyright reformers launch attack on DMCA's digital locks rule. [Ars Technica]
05-03-2013: Vint Cerf: Google services need a degree of anonymity -- and they deliver it. [Engadget]
05-03-2013: Transparency Report: shedding more light on national security letters. [Google Blog] [Marketing Land] [Engadget]
28-02-2013: France's three strikes anti-piracy regime may target streaming sites. [Ars Technica]
27-02-2013: SHIELD act: a bill to stop patent trolls. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
27-02-2013: What is the Copyright Alert system? [Stuff]
27-02-2013: Supreme court kills activists' challenge to FISA spying law. [Ars Technica]
27-02-2013: Anonymous troll slayers fight back against abusive lawsuits. [Ars Technica]
23-02-2013: Six strikes officially begins on Monday. [HardOCP] [TechDirt] [Gizmodo]
25-02-2013: Six strikes anti-piracy scheme starts, with mystery punishments. [TorrentFreak]
26-02-2013: Six strikes enforcement policy debuts. [Ars Technica] [ReadWriteWeb]
26-02-2013: The copyright alert system: how the new six strikes anti-piracy programme works. [Lifehacker]
26-02-2013: Should you be worried about the new six strikes anti-piracy rules? [GigaOM]
28-02-2013: Here's what an actual six strikes copyright alert looks like. [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [BGR] [Mashable]
12-03-2013: How your ISP will take six strikes at suspected pirates. [ReadWriteWeb]
23-02-2013: Illinois lawmaker pulls anti-anonymity bill. [HardOCP] [ComputerWorld]
21-02-2013: RIAA says Google's anti-piracy search algorithm is bogus. [Wired] [BGR] [ReadWriteWeb] [BoingBoing] [The Register] [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
21-02-2013: Senator pushes anti-anonymity bill. [HardOCP] [Daily Caller]
18-02-2013: RIAA takedown requests and ad complaints are missing an opportunity. [Engadget]
12-02-2013: Harsh punishments needed to deter file sharers. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
11-02-2013: Canada's Internet snooping bill is dead. [BoingBoing] [The Globe and Mail] [The Register]
09-02-2013: FBI employees love BitTorrent. [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
08-02-2013: Judge denies MPAA attempt to seize profits from copyright infringement. [Ars Technica]
06-02-2013: Internet 'under assault' by censoring UN, regulator says. [Bloomberg]
03-02-2013: Wikileaks reveals Icelandic FBI shenanigans. [The Register]
01-02-2013: "Six Strikes" boss insists new system won't harm public WiFi. [Ars Technica]
30-01-2013: Who does Skype let spy? [Schneier]
30-01-2013: Downloader fined $616 in first Skynet case. [Stuff]
25-01-2013: Dotcom wants to encrypt half the Internet. [HardOCP] [RT] [Gizmodo]
23-01-2013: Google Transparency Report shows rise in data requests. [BBC News]
24-01-2013: Transparency report: what it takes for governments to access personal information. [Google] [BoingBoing] [BGR] [THG]
24-01-2013: Google hands over your data 88% of the time. [HardOCP] [Weekly Standard]
28-01-2013: Google's approach to government requests for user data. [Google] [Gizmodo] [Stuff]
17-01-2013: FBI to ACLU: no, we won't tell you how, when, or why we track you. [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
11-01-2013: Verizon's "six strikes" anti-piracy measures unveiled. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak] [ReadWriteWeb]
15-01-2013: Six strikes programme could affect businesses too, even if infringer is uknown. [Ars Technica] [TorrentFreak]
28-01-2013: How ISPs' six strikes anti-piracy programmes could wreak havoc on public wi-fi hotspots. [BGR]
11-01-2013: Skynet law gets put to the test. [Stuff]
08-01-2013: DHS gets to spy on everyone. [Schneier] [WSJ] [WSJ Blog]
01-01-2013: FOIA'd FBI documents point to secret, nationwide Occupy surveillance. [BoingBoing]
2013 – Five Eyes Spying
31-12-2013: Jacob Appelbaum's must-watch 30C3 talk: why NSA spying affects you, no matter who you are. [BoingBoing]
31-12-2013: ACLU sues US government over NSA spying. [BBC News] [GigaOM]
31-12-2013: Why NSA spied on inexplicably unencrypted Windows crash reports. [Ars Technica] [Graham Cluley]
30-12-2013: American spies don't need new powers to catch terrorists, they just have to start doing their jobs. [BoingBoing] [CNN]
30-12-2013: The NSA and the corrosion of Silicon Valley. [WSJ ATD] [Harrison Metal] [The Register]
30-12-2013: Cisco “deeply concerned” over NSA backdoor claims. [GigaOM]
30-12-2013: The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away. [The Verge] [Engadget] [BGR]
30-12-2013: Defense bill makes US-based Russian satellite monitoring stations 'next to impossible' due to spying fears. [Engadget]
29-12-2013: Spooks and American exceptionalism. [BoingBoing] [AntiWar]
29-12-2013: TAO: the NSA's hacker plumber-wunderkinds. [BoingBoing] [Spiegel] [Stuff] [Network Computing]
29-12-2013: The NSA actually intercepted packages to put backdoors in electronics. [Gizmodo] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Yahoo News] [BGR] [DailyTech] [ExtremeTech]
01-01-2014: Businesses deny helping NSA plant bugs in Americans' gadgets. [DailyTech]
31-12-2013: More about the NSA's tailored access operations unit. [Schneier]
07-01-2014: Matt Blaze on TAO's methods. [Schneier] [The Guardian]
29-12-2013: NSA has a 50-page catalog of exploits for software, hardware, and firmware. [BoingBoing] [Spiegel] [Gizmodo] [Wired] [The Register]
30-12-2013: You won't believe all the crazy hardware the NSA uses for spying. [WSJ ATD] [LeakSource]
30-12-2013: The NSA has nearly complete backdoor iPhone access. [HardOCP] [Daily Dot] [iMore] [AppleInsider] [MacRumors] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [BGR] [Graham Cluley] [BoingBoing] [NZ Herald]
31-12-2013: Apple denies knowledge of NSA's iPhone spying programme. [MacRumors] [AppleInsider] [iMore] [GottaBeMobile] [WSJ ATD] [HardOCP]
31-12-2013: The NSA spies on America's favourite device. [ReadWriteWeb]
07-01-2014: The NSA, the iPhone and a whole lot of paranoia. [TUAW]
27-12-2013: Snowden leak journo leaks next leak: NSA, GCHQ dying to snoop on your gadgets mid-flight. [The Register] [Wired]
27-12-2013: NSA drowning in overcollected data, can't do its job properly. [BoingBoing] [WSJ]
27-12-2013: NSA surveillance lawful, judge rules. [BBC News] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [Wired] [ReadWriteWeb] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [BetaNews]
27-12-2013: Federal judges divided on whether mass-spying violates 4th amendment. [DailyTech]
03-01-2014: U.S. appeals ruling against NSA phone surveillance. [Reuters] [Huffington Post] [Engadget]
27-12-2013: Obama's NSA phone spying reforms might make things worse. [Wired]
26-12-2013: If not the NSA, who should store the phone data? [Washington Post]
26-12-2013: Researchers show why the NSA's phone metadata is far from anonymous. [The Verge] [Gizmodo]
25-12-2013: A new twist in international relations: the corporate keep-my-data-out-of-the-US clause. [Bloomberg]
23-12-2013: The math behind the NSA's email hacks. [Gizmodo]
23-12-2013: Feds admit start of NSA surveillance, still say it’s too secretive for court. [Ars Technica]
21-12-2013: NSA programmes could be redesigned to prevent abuses. [HardOCP] [cNet]
20-12-2013: Bringing intelligence agencies to heel. [alJazeera]
20-12-2013: Obama concedes NSA spying may need 'refining'. [Wired]
20-12-2013: NSA paid RSA $10million for backdoor access. [HardOCP] [Reuters] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [Graham Cluley]
23-12-2013: RSA comes out swinging at claims it took NSA's $10m to backdoor crypto. [The Register] [RSA] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [DailyTech] [iMore]
23-12-2013: NSA spying: whom do you believe? [Schneier]
24-12-2013: RSA issues non-denying denial of NSA deal to favor flawed crypto code. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [Graham Cluley]
24-12-2013: The one big question about RSA and its relationship with the NSA. [WSJ ATD]
27-12-2013: How worried should we be about alleged RSA-NSA scheming? [Wired]
20-12-2013: Rep. King says Sen. Paul "disgraced" office by criticising NSA. [DailyTech]
20-12-2013: NSA and GCHQ targeted NGOs, charities, EU chief, Israeli defense minister for deep surveillance. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [NYT]
20-12-2013: The NSA's oversharing problem. [Ars Technica]
20-12-2013: NSA’s broken Dual_EC random number generator has a “fatal bug” in OpenSSL. [Ars Technica]
20-12-2013: NSA's Keith Alexander is Big Brother. [Stuff]
18-12-2013: Obama won't give tech firms assurances on snooping. [SFGate]
18-12-2013: Inside Microsoft's battle to foil the NSA. [HardOCP] [Wired]
18-12-2013: Tech executives press Obama on NSA. [Stuff] [BBC News]
17-12-2013: Do BT modems really contain NSA back-doors? [TrustedReviews]
16-12-2013: NSA spying has triggered a crazy chain reaction of countermeasures. [BGR]
16-12-2013: Judge: NSA phone program likely unconstitutional. [Politico] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [The Hill] [iMore] [BoingBoing] [Wired] [The Register] [BBC News] [Engadget]
18-12-2013: Judge's word on NSA program won't be the last. [Stuff]
18-12-2013: Panel urges new curbs on surveillance by U.S. [Washington Post] [The Hill] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ] [BoingBoing] [The Register] [NYT] [BBC News]
18-12-2013: President's review group report. [White House PDF]
19-12-2013: Spying reform panel: The world is not the NSA’s playground. [Ars Technica]
19-12-2013: NSA should stop undermining encryption standards, Obama panel says. [Ars Technica]
19-12-2013: Gov’t review panel suggests NSA stop holding massive phone database. [Ars Technica]
19-12-2013: NSA review group tells Obama to ditch bulk phone surveillance. [Engadget]
19-12-2013: Obama's NSA advisory board: no more phone records, no more backdoors. [Gizmodo] [BGR]
16-12-2013: Inside the NSA: former NSA cyber spy shares his story. [BGR]
16-12-2013: NSA alleges 'BIOS plot to destroy PCs'. [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
15-12-2013: 60 Minutes: NSA good, Snowden bad. [The Wire] [Gizmodo] [The Guardian]
17-12-2013: 60 Minutes attains new journalistic low with NSA puff-piece. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
15-12-2013: Officials say US may never know the extent of Snowden's leaks. [NYT]
14-12-2013: Archaic but widely used crypto cipher allows NSA to decode most cell calls. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Washington Post] [iMore] [Engadget]
13-12-2013: IBM hid China's reaction to NSA spying 'cos it cost us BILLIONS, rages angry shareholder. [The Register] [Reuters]
13-12-2013: US to stick with combined NSA, Cyber Command posts. [WSJ ATD] [WSJ] [Ars Technica]
13-12-2013: NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged. [The Guardian]
13-12-2013: Presidential task force recommends overhaul of NSA surveillance tactics. [WSJ ATD] [WSJ] [Wired]
14-12-2013: NSA overhaul could see an end to PRISM-style surveillance. [Engadget]
13-12-2013: Obama and the intelligence community. [Schneier] [The New Yorker]
12-12-2013: How the NSA tracks mobile phone data. [Schneier]
14-12-2013: Obama panel says NSA phone spying records should be held by third party. [Ars Technica]
12-12-2013: NSA: no better way to protect US than surveillance. [HardOCP] [Yahoo News]
12-12-2013: Will NSA cut it out if Congress passes no-bulk-spying bill? “Depends”. [Ars Technica]
10-12-2013: The NSA: an insider's view. [Loren's blog]
10-12-2013: NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking. [Washington Post] [Stuff] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [ExtremeTech] [Wired] [Schneier] [The Register]
12-12-2013: The Google clones that power NSA surveillance. [Wired]
10-12-2013: Tally of Obama's lies about the NSA's spying. [BoingBoing]
10-12-2013: Canada's spooks were NSA bagmen, established spy-posts in 20+ countries and "transnational targets". [BoingBoing] [CBC News]
10-12-2013: New US spy satellite features world-devouring octopus. [Ars Technica]
09-12-2013: Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community? [The New Yorker]
08-12-2013: NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former US officials say. [Washington Post] [BGR] [DailyTech]
06-12-2013: Twenty years ago the NSA tried to protect you from spies, not spy on you. [Pando]
06-12-2013: NSA cites Reagan-era executive order to justify collection of cell-phone location data. [ComputerWorld]
09-12-2013: Cops and Feds routinely dump cell towers to track everyone nearby. [Wired]
10-12-2013: US cops blew more than $26m buying cell phone records from telcos. [The Register]
11-12-2013: How Americans were decieved about cellphone location data. [The Atlantic]
06-12-2013: NSA wrongly says warrantless mobile phone location tracking is legal. [Wired] [HardOCP]
07-12-2013: NSA cites executive order to defend its collection of cellphone location data. [Engadget]
09-12-2013: MetaPhone: the NSA three-hop. [Web Policy]
05-12-2013: Microsoft compares NSA to "advanced persistent threat". [WSJ ATD] [NYT Bits]
05-12-2013: Microsoft: you can trust us... look at our government spook-busting plans. [The Register] [Engadget]
05-12-2013: Microsoft's defense against NSA's dark arts: as much fantasy as fact. [ReadWriteWeb]
05-12-2013: NSA collects nearly five billion cellphone location records per day. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [Washington Post] [Stuff] [The Register] [Engadget] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [BBC News] [BGR]
08-12-2013: Cellphone data: it's not just the NSA. [USA Today]
04-12-2013: Can we stop getting excited about NSA data surveillance already? [GottaBeMobile]
03-12-2013: NSA's talking points for friends and family -- rebutted. [BoingBoing] [The Dissenter]
03-12-2013: Keeping track of all the Snowden documents. [Schneier]
01-12-2013: Here's how the NSA is actually set up. [Gizmodo] [The Week]
30-11-2013: Researchers use NSA’s own tactics to see how invasive NSA spying is. [BGR]
29-11-2013: NSA and Canadian spooks illegally spied on diplomats at Toronto G20 summit. [BoingBoing] [CBC News]
28-11-2013: US may split cyber-command from NSA. [Stuff]
28-11-2013: Debunking excuses for NSA spying. [Stuff]
27-11-2013: NSA spied on porn habits to discredit 'radicalisers'. [Gizmodo] [Huffington Post] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [BGR] [DailyTech]
26-11-2013: NSA surveillance: Europe threatens to freeze US data-sharing arrangements. [The Guardian]
27-11-2013: Post-Snowden, EU sets out actions needed to restore trust in EU-US data flows. [TechCrunch]
26-11-2013: NSA fingered in Dotcom scandal. [Stuff]
26-11-2013: The FBI might do more domestic surveillance than the NSA. [Schneier]
25-11-2013: NSA may have spied on Google, Yahoo data centers via fibre-optic cables. [NYT] [ReadWriteWeb] [Gizmodo] [DailyTech]
25-11-2013: Spies worry over "doomsday" cache stashed by ex-NSA contractor Snowden. [Reuters] [Ars Technica]
25-11-2013: Facebook's Zuckerberg: US gov 'blew it' on mass surveillance. [The Register] [DailyTech]
24-11-2013: Shaken NSA grapples with overhaul. [WSJ]
24-11-2013: New NSA leak reveals invasion of the management consultants. [The Register]
23-11-2013: Leaked NSA report reveals push for new surveillance powers. [BoingBoing] [NYT]
23-11-2013: NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software. [NRC] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [PCMag] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [The Register] [BGR]
22-11-2013: Private sector beefs up security to fend off NSA. [THG]
22-11-2013: Qualcomm CEO says NSA fallout impacting China business. [WSJ]
22-11-2013: NSA report outlined goals for more power. [NYT]
22-11-2013: Six ways that NSA and GCHQ spying violated your rights, and six things you can do about it. [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group]
22-11-2013: Inside the obscure FBI unit that does the NSA's dirty work. [BoingBoing] [Foreign Policy]
22-11-2013: NSA also had the green light to spy on UK residents. [Ars Technica]
21-11-2013: Edward Snowden leaks: UK 'let NSA store email addresses'. [BBC News]
21-11-2013: Reagan's role in NSA's hacking. [Stuff] [NZ Herald]
20-11-2013: NSA Primary Sources: a catalog of leaked NSA files. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
20-11-2013: Three senators support lawsuit to end NSA bulk data collection. [DailyTech] [THG]
19-11-2013: NSA engaged in illegal mass-spying on Norway's phone system. [BoingBoing] [The Local]
19-11-2013: How the NSA weaponized the Internet's backbone. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
19-11-2013: Fisa court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time. [The Guardian]
19-11-2013: Judge: “NSA exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously”. [Ars Technica]
19-11-2013: Schneier tells Washington NSA broke Internet’s security for everyone. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
18-11-2013: Supreme court rejects case challenging NSA phone spying. [Wired] [HardOCP] [The Verge] [Stuff]
18-11-2013: Yahoo locks down its data center links from NSA's prying eyes. [WSJ ATD] [Ars Technica] [The Register] [TechCrunch] [Gizmodo] [BBC News] [Network Computing]
18-11-2013: NSA FOIA requests up 988%. [BoingBoing] [USA Today]
15-11-2013: Cisco attributes part of lowered earnings to China’s anger toward NSA. [Ars Technica]
11-12-2013: NSA leaks blamed for Cisco’s falling sales overseas. [Ars Technica]
14-11-2013: NSA fallout: tech firms feel a chill inside China. [WSJ]
14-11-2013: NSA admits that Snowden stole up to 200,000 documents. [Gizmodo] [Reuters]
14-11-2013: NSA has no idea when it spies on Americans, top lawyer says. [Ars Technica]
13-11-2013: Smooth operators: why phone companies don't fight the NSA. [The Verge]
13-11-2013: NSA transparency hurts American's privacy, feds say with straight face. [Wired]
12-11-2013: The original NSA whistleblower. [BoingBoing] [Gawker]
11-11-2013: I want NSA chief's head on a plate for Merkelgate, storms Senator McCain. [The Register]
10-11-2013: The next NSA chief may be a civilian. [Gizmodo] [The Hill]
08-11-2013: Privacy warriors haul NSA into court, demand swift end to mass call snooping. [The Register]
07-11-2013: U.S. weighs option to end dual leadership role at NSA, Cyber Command. [Washington Post]
07-11-2013: CIA reportedly pays AT&T $10 million a year to access calling records. [BGR] [NYT] [Ars Technica]
08-11-2013: AT&T turns spying on customers for CIA into cash waterfall – report. [The Register]
07-11-2013: Berners-Lee: 'Appalling and foolish' NSA spying helps criminals. [The Register] [The Guardian]
07-11-2013: Kaspersky: “We detect and remediate any malware attack,” even by NSA. [Ars Technica]
07-11-2013: Does F-Secure's antivirus turn a blind eye to spook spyware? CEO hits back. [The Register]
07-11-2013: Googlers say “F*** you” to NSA, company encrypts internal network. [Ars Technica] [Stuff] [BoingBoing] [Google+] [WSJ ATD] [The Register] [BGR]
06-11-2013: Crowdfunded audit of 'NSA-proof' encryption suite TrueCrypt is go. [The Register]
05-11-2013: Reding: NSA, friends don't spy on friends. Europe, let's team up for our own spook club. [The Register]
05-11-2013: NSA lawyers urge retention of secret data. [Stuff]
05-11-2013: WaPo to gov’t: Our story on NSA Google spying was true, here’s proof. [Ars Technica]
04-11-2013: How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data. [Washington Post]
04-11-2013: NSA chief likely to lose cyber war powers. [The Hill] [The Register]
04-11-2013: Sen. Feinstein's "improvement" to NSA spying on Americans: make it legal. [DailyTech]
04-11-2013: Google's Eric Schmidt lambasts NSA over spying. [HardOCP] [WSJ] [The Register] [DailyTech] [WSJ Digits] [Engadget]
04-11-2013: QOTD: don't be evil, NSA. [WSJ ATD]
02-11-2013: No morsel too miniscule for all-consuming NSA. [NYT] [Schneier]
02-11-2013: AI pioneer Douglas Hofstadter profiled, the NSA files decoded and more. [Engadget]
01-11-2013: Will NSA revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet? [The Guardian]
01-11-2013: Google, Microsoft give thumbs-up to proposed NSA restrictions. [BGR]
01-11-2013: A post-Snowden US had better not complain about Chinese cyber-spying. [The Register]
01-11-2013: John Kerry bombshell: 'Yes, the NSA... reached TOO FAR, inappropriately'. [The Register]
01-11-2013: Snowden leaks latest: BT, Vodafone, Verizon jack GCHQ into undersea fibre. [The Register]
01-11-2013: NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
01-11-2013: Feinstein shows off NSA “reform” bill that’s really about the status quo. [Ars Technica]
01-11-2013: How the NSA’s MUSCULAR tapped Google’s and Yahoo’s private networks. [Ars Technica]
31-10-2013: NSA statement regarding recent press articles. [HardOCP] [HardForum]
31-10-2013: NSA spokesmen told to just say "9/11" to deflect criticism. [BoingBoing] [Al Jazeera]
31-10-2013: Internet giants should answer questions on NSA links, says Tom Watson. [BBC News]
31-10-2013: NSA 'tapped pope, Vatican'. [Stuff]
30-10-2013: NSA fallout hits AT&T's ambitions in Europe. [WSJ]
30-10-2013: How the NSA is infiltrating private networks. [Washington Post]
30-10-2013: NSA hacked links between Google and Yahoo data centers. [WSJ ATD] [iMore] [NZ Herald] [Washington Post] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Stuff] [BoingBoing] [DC Knowledge] [The Register] [Schneier] [Network Computing]
30-10-2013: The scariest part of the latest NSA revelation is this post-it. [Gizmodo]
30-10-2013: How the NSA may be tapping Yahoo's and Google's fibre optic cables. [WSJ ATD]
30-10-2013: PRISM already gave the NSA access to tech giants. Here’s why it wanted more. [Washington Post]
30-10-2013: NSA issues non-denial of infiltrating Google and Yahoo's networks. [TechDirt]
31-10-2013: Google 'outraged' at alleged NSA hacking. [BBC News]
31-10-2013: When legal surveillance isn’t enough: NSA hacked the fiber optic links between Google, Yahoo datacenters. [ExtremeTech]
30-10-2013: How is the NSA’s vault of secrets being unlocked? [BBC News]
30-10-2013: US spy leaks: how intelligence is gathered. [BBC News]
29-10-2013: Lawmakers propose USA Freedom Act to curb NSA’s powers. [The Hill]
29-10-2013: What the NSA can and cannot do. [Schneier] [LRB]
29-10-2013: Key confident US didn't spy on him. [Stuff]
29-10-2013: Senator changes tune, now is “totally opposed” to foreign leader surveillance. [Ars Technica]
29-10-2013: White House says more intelligence constraints needed. [BBC News] [Reuters]
27-10-2013: The NSA's secret spy hub in Berlin. [Der Spiegel]
27-10-2013: The NSA collected data on 60 million phone calls in Spain. [The Atlantic]
27-10-2013: Hundreds march in DC against NSA spying. [Stuff] [The Guardian]
26-10-2013: US government monitoring public in real time. [Schneier] [The Guardian]
25-10-2013: The NSA's website is down. [Gizmodo] [ABC News]
25-10-2013: NSA site went down due to 'internal error', not DDoS attack, agency claims. [RT] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
25-10-2013: Keith Alexander says the US government needs to figure out a way to stop journalists from reporting on Snowden leaks. [TechDirt]
25-10-2013: Ex-NSA chief's "off the record" interview wasn't. [BoingBoing]
25-10-2013: NSA spied on 35 world leaders. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
29-10-2013: NSA tapped phones of 35 world leaders without Obama’s knowledge. [Ars Technica]
30-10-2013: US now claims European agencies, not the NSA,. spied on European leaders. [Gizmodo]
24-10-2013: Germany and Brazil take NSA spying frustrations to the UN. [The Atlantic]
24-10-2013: Is the NSA scandal as bad as Watergate? [Gizmodo] [EFF]
24-10-2013: Germany accuses US of spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone. [Ars Technica] [Stuff]
24-10-2013: Obama to Merkel: No Americans are listening to you on this call. [The Register]
25-10-2013: 'Spying on friends unacceptable'. [Stuff]
26-10-2013: NSA spied on German Chancellor before she even took office. [Gizmodo] [Der Spiegel]
27-10-2013: Spooks throw Obama under the bus: He knew about Merkel spying since 2010. [BoingBoing] [Yahoo News]
27-10-2013: Obama 'not told of Merkel phone bugging'. [BBC News] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ] [Gizmodo]
30-10-2013: Germany's Merkel sends intelligence delegation to US. [BBC News]
23-10-2013: NSA: national insecurity. [BoingBoing]
23-10-2013: Celebrities tell the NSA to get out of their business. [Wired] [HardOCP] [EFF YouTube]
23-10-2013: Code names for NSA exploit tools. [Schneier]
24-10-2013: The NSA, home of Operation Nonsequitur. [Stuff]
22-10-2013: CryptoSeal VPN shuts down rather than risk NSA demands for crypto keys. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak]
21-10-2013: French outrage over US spying claims. [BBC News] [Stuff] [The Register] [Le Monde] [Ars Technica] [DailyTech]
23-10-2013: US intelligence chief denies reports that the NSA collected 70 million French call records. [The Verge]
24-10-2013: Understanding NSA boss James Clapper's France-spying "denial". [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
20-10-2013: NSA hacked email of Mexican president and drug-war reformers. [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [The Register]
19-10-2013: The top 5 things we’ve learned about the NSA thanks to Edward Snowden. [Ars Technica]
18-10-2013: NSA delayed anti-leak software at base where Snowden worked. [Reuters] [Ars Technica] [Stuff]
18-10-2013: The drone-ready NSA can trap a terrorist with a single email. [Gizmodo] [Washington Post]
18-10-2013: ACLU sues feds for hiding NSA spying from terror defendants. [Ars Technica] [Wired]
18-10-2013: New NSA deputy leads anti-leaks task force. [Stuff]
17-10-2013: NSA chief Keith Alexander and top deputy will abdicate in coming months. [Ars Technica] [Stuff] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [Reuters]
17-10-2013: NSA's Alexander to retire, but is he a villain or Obama's fall guy? [DailyTech]
17-10-2013: Secret court argues (again) that it’s not a rubber stamp for surveillance. [Ars Technica]
16-10-2013: The NSA's elite hacker squad is suffering in the post-Snowden era. [Gizmodo]
16-10-2013: U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon. [Reuters]
16-10-2013: The NSA's problem? Too much data. [Washington Post]
15-10-2013: The NSA's new code breakers. [Foreign Policy]
15-10-2013: Feds demand Supreme Court thwart challenge to NSA phone spying. [Wired]
15-10-2013: US gov’t moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit away from Supreme Court. [Ars Technica]
15-10-2013: NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally. [Washington Post] [Gizmodo] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [BoingBoing] [Stuff] [BBC News] [Schneier] [ReadWriteWeb] [HardOCP] [ABC News] [DailyTech]
13-10-2013: Defending NSA, director says it's not that what we're doing is wrong, we just did a bad job explaining. [BoingBoing] [NYT]
13-10-2013: DoJ: If we can track one American, we can track all Americans. [Ars Technica]
11-10-2013: Court: NSA can continue sweeping phone data collection. [The Hill]
11-10-2013: Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA. [The Guardian]
11-10-2013: NSA chiefs confiding in their allies: Obama is hanging us out to dry. [BoingBoing] [Foreign Policy]
11-10-2013: Patriot Act author pushes bill to put NSA's data dragnet 'out of business'. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
11-10-2013: NSA tactics no better than a CYBERCRIME GANG, says infosec'er. [The Register]
10-10-2013: NSA deputy Chris Inglis pledges 'more transparency'. [BBC News]
10-10-2013: NSA saves zero-day exploits for high-value targets. [Ars Technica]
09-10-2013: Yochai Benkler: NSA gets little helpful intel from Americans' metadata. [BoingBoing]
09-10-2013: The NSA's new risk analysis. [Schneier]
08-10-2013: EFF's guide to the NSA's official malware. [BoingBoing] [EFF] [Gizmodo]
08-10-2013: Australian government knew about PRISM before Snowden leaks. [The Register]
08-10-2013: Is the NSA's data center melting down because it's spying too much? [Gizmodo] [WSJ]
07-10-2013: Meltdowns hobble NSA data center. [WSJ] [DC Knowledge] [BBC News] [The Register] [Stuff] [HardOCP] [Ars Technica] [Wired]
08-10-2013: Crowdfunding $300 to make the NSA disclose its IT meltdowns. [BoingBoing] [MuckRock]
07-10-2013: Want to evade NSA spying? Don't connect to the Internet. [Wired] [HardOCP]
07-10-2013: NSA freedom of information requests up 1000% post-Snowden. [BoingBoing] [MuckRock]
06-10-2013: NSA surveillance panel shut down. [Politico] [Ars Technica]
06-10-2013: US surveillance erodes its leadership in Internet freedom. [HardOCP] [PCWorld]
04-10-2013: Why everyone is left less secure when the NSA doesn’t help fix security flaws. [Washington Post]
04-10-2013: Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public. [The Guardian] [Schneier]
04-10-2013: NSA justifies hacking world's digital communications. [The Register]
04-10-2013: How the NSA is trying to de-cloack Tor users. [ReadWriteWeb] [The Register] [HardOCP] [cNet] [The Guardian] [Gizmodo]
04-10-2013: Intelligence chief says the US attacks encryption because the bad guys use it. [The Verge]
04-10-2013: 'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document. [The Guardian] [BoingBoing]
04-10-2013: NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users. [The Guardian]
04-10-2013: Why the NSA hates Tor. [WSJ ATD]
05-10-2013: NSA repeatedly tries to unpeel Tor anonymity and spy on users. [Ars Technica]
07-10-2013: NSA targeted Tor users via Firefox flaw. [BBC News] [Schneier]
08-10-2013: How the NSA might use Hotmail, Yahoo or other cookies to identify Tor users. [Ars Technica]
03-10-2013: US govt still fighting over spy data. [Stuff]
02-10-2013: How a purse snatching led to the legal justification for NSA domestic spying. [Wired]
02-10-2013: Secret NSA project gathered American cellphone location data. [Engadget] [NYT] [Gizmodo]
02-10-2013: NSA chief admits agency tracked US cellphone locations in secret tests. [The Guardian] [The Register]
03-10-2013: What the NSA might have wanted to learn from tracking your phone. [WSJ ATD]
02-10-2013: So sad about the NSA web-spying bombshells - but think of the MONEY! [The Register]
01-10-2013: 'The NSA set me up,' ex-con Qwest exec claims. [The Register]
01-10-2013: Anonymous claims Apple's Touch ID hands over fingerprints to the NSA. [GottaBeMobile]
28-09-2013: EFF racks up another courtroom victory over the NSA: damning docs to follow. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
28-09-2013: Meet the NSA's own social graphs, composed of Americans' data. [WSJ ATD] [NYT] [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [Schneier]
30-09-2013: NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show. [The Guardian] [The Register]
28-09-2013: Senator admits the NSA taps the Internet backbone. [Schneier] [BoingBoing]
27-09-2013: NSA chief: don't dump essential security tools. [Network Computing]
26-09-2013: 12 true tales of NSA stalking. [Wired]
26-09-2013: Lavabit's attorneys want court to unseal case files. [BoingBoing] [RT]
26-09-2013: Senators to introduce comprehensive NSA and secret court reform bill. [Ars Technica]
28-09-2013: In new bill, four senators attack NSA’s bulk data collection. [Ars Technica]
25-09-2013: NSA reform bill to trim back US surveillance unveiled in Congress. [The Guardian]
26-09-2013: Lawmakers push to end bulk NSA collection. [Stuff]
25-09-2013: NSA chief pleads for public's help amid push for spying restrictions. [The Hill]
25-09-2013: Secret Cold War docs show NSA spied on senators. [BoingBoing] [Foreign Policy] [National Security Archive]
25-09-2013: Egnyte addes PRISM protection to its enterprise hybrid cloud service. [WSJ ATD]
25-09-2013: Senators have questions for NSA and others, probably won’t get answers soon. [Ars Technica]
24-09-2013: Report says PRISM snooped on India's space, nuclear programs. [The Register] [Engadget]
22-09-2013: Close ties between White House, NSA spying. [AP]
21-09-2013: Close the NSA's back doors. [NYT]
20-09-2013: Legally justifying NSA surveillance of Americans. [Schneier] [DMLP]
19-09-2013: NSA sends letter to 'extended' family to reassure them that they will 'weather' this 'storm'. [The Dissenter]
19-09-2013: Zuckerberg says US spying hurt users' trust. [Stuff] [The Register] [BGR]
19-09-2013: NSA: Snowden took docs from internal site. [Stuff]
19-09-2013: NSA aims to plug holes that sprang Snowden leaks. [Ars Technica]
18-09-2013: Leaked docs: NSA 'Follow the money' team slurped bank records, credit card data. [The Register]
18-09-2013: Yochai Benkler on the NSA. [Schneier] [The Guardian]
17-09-2013: LinkedIn challenges NSA disclosure rules in court filing. [WSJ ATD] [TNW] [The Register]
17-09-2013: US telcos never challenged NSA demands for your metadata. [Wired]
18-09-2013: Secret court declassifies opinion providing rationale for metadata sharing. [Ars Technica]
17-09-2013: Senators decry NSA 'ineptitude', call for end to dragnet phone surveillance. [Wired]
17-09-2013: Lavabit email founder goes to great lengths to avoid email, post-Snowden. [WSJ ATD]
16-09-2013: The NSA and your cloud: navigating the noise. [Network Computing]
16-09-2013: Reforming the NSA. [Schneier]
15-09-2013: Analysis: Despite fears, NSA revelations helping U.S. tech industry. [Reuters]
15-09-2013: NSA spies on international payments. [Der Spiegel] [HardOCP] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing]
13-09-2013: Google chairman won’t ‘pass judgement’ on NSA spying, calls for transparency. [BGR]
13-09-2013: US to declassify parts of secret order. [Stuff]
12-09-2013: NSA disguised itself as Google to spy. [HardOCP] [cNet] [Gizmodo]
12-09-2013: Six whopping government misstatements about NSA spying. [Wired]
12-09-2013: Inside the effort to crowdfund NSA-proof email and chat services. [Vice Motherboard]
12-09-2013: CloudFlare CEO: ‘Insane’ NSA gag order is costing U.S. tech firms customers. [Washington Post]
12-09-2013: EFF's guide to NSA reform bills. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
12-09-2013: IETF floats plan to PRISM-proof the Internet. [The Register]
12-09-2013: Why the NSA loves Google’s Chromebook. [Ars Technica]
11-09-2013: Mark Zuckerberg on NSA spying: 'The government blew it'. [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [WSJ ATD] [HardOCP] [SFGate]
11-09-2013: Protecting yourself from NSA web surveillance. [Network Computing]
11-09-2013: The secret NSA documents and FISA court opinions released by government. [Gizmodo]
11-09-2013: NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel. [The Guardian] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
10-09-2013: NSA violated privacy protections from 2006 to 2009. [WSJ] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Verge] [Wired] [HardOCP] [The Guardian] [The Register] [BoingBoing]
11-09-2013: Judge almost shut down NSA surveillance. [Stuff]
11-09-2013: No one “had a full understanding” of 2009 call-checking programme. [Ars Technica]
10-09-2013: Did this 1980s kids' book predict NSA snooping? [Gizmodo]
09-09-2013: NSA spied on Google. [Stuff]
09-09-2013: NSA broke into networks of Brazil's president; state oil company, Google Brazil, and SWIFT, for "economic" reasons. [BoingBoing] [Bloomberg]
11-09-2013: Brazilian TV show accuses NSA of spying on oil firm based on leaked docs. [The Register]
09-09-2013: NSA slides reveal: iPhone users are zombies. [The Register] [HardOCP] [cNet] [BGR]
09-09-2013: iSpy: how the NSA accesses smartphone data. [Der Spiegel]
10-09-2013: NSA spies reportedly exploited iPhone location bug not fixed until 2011. [Ars Technica]
08-09-2013: NSA secretly broke smartphone security. [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald]
08-09-2013: NSA leaks as a demographic phenomena. [BoingBoing] [Schneier]
08-09-2013: Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011. [Washington Post] [DailyTech]
07-09-2013: NSA revelations cast doubt on the entire tech industry. [Wired]
06-09-2013: US intelligence: Snowden's latest leaks 'road map' for adversaries. [The Register]
06-09-2013: Conspiracy theories and the NSA. [Schneier]
06-09-2013: NSA is 'great at some sophisticated tasks but oddly bad at the simplest'. [The Register]
05-09-2013: Attempts by UK, US govs to suppress reporting on NSA not working out so great. [BoingBoing] [Huffington Post]
05-09-2013: Hundreds of pages of NSA spying documents to be released as result of EFF lawsuit. [EFF]
05-09-2013: Patriot Act author says NSA’s bulk data collection is “unbounded in its scope”. [Ars Technica] [Wired]
04-09-2013: NSA review board to meet with privacy, tech groups. [The Hill]
03-09-2013: Global NSA fallout: Brazilian government wants to create secure email system to rival Gmail, Hotmail. [BoingBoing] [Folha de S.Paulo]
02-09-2013: How the NSA misleads the public without technically lying. [Gizmodo]
01-09-2013: Latest Snowden leak: NSA spied on Al Jazeera communications. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel]
31-08-2013: Partner of NSA leaks reporter carried paper with password, says UK. [Ars Technica]
30-08-2013: India wants to ban US-based email systems for government communications over NSA concerns. [TechDirt]
30-08-2013: Washington Post report details how often security agencies break into other networks. [Engadget] [Washington Post] [Gizmodo]
30-08-2013: The NSA's finally going to start telling us how many people they spy on. [Gizmodo] [IC on the Record]
30-08-2013: More on the NSA commandeering the Internet. [Schneier]
30-08-2013: Schneier on NSA intimidation, and the expanding surveillance state. [BoingBoing] [USA Today]
29-08-2013: Obama’s intelligence czar vows to release his own transparency report. [The Switch]
28-08-2013: Obama prepares to crawl up NSA's ass with microscope. [The Register] [RT]
28-08-2013: In ACLU lawsuit, scientist demolishes NSA’s “it’s just metadata” excuse. [Ars Technica]
27-08-2013: German politician: stop US trade talks until NSA surveillance is disclosed. [Ars Technica]
26-08-2013: NSA phone data collection is illegal, ACLU says. [NYT]
26-08-2013: How might the feds have snooped on Lavabit? [Ars Technica]
24-08-2013: NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show. [GigaOM] [Gizmodo] [Stuff] [Ars Technica]
26-08-2013: New Snowden NSA revelations in Der Spiegel: 'How America Spies on Europe and the UN'. [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel]
24-08-2013: LOVEINT: NSA spooks illegally stalking their romantic interests. [BoingBoing] [WSJ] [Gizmodo]
24-08-2013: Lawmakers probe willful abuses of power by NSA analysts. [Bloomberg]
23-08-2013: NSA paid tech companies millions to cover cost of PRISM compliance. [BoingBoing] [NYT] [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [HardOCP]
23-08-2013: NSA used taxpayer dollars to cover PRISM compliance costs for tech companies. [Engadget]
30-08-2013: NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks. [Washington Post]
22-08-2013: My dinner with NSA director Keith Alexander. [Forbes]
22-08-2013: NSA and DNI respond to damning news articles on overreach of spying programs. [BoingBoing]
22-08-2013: Four ways the Guardian could have protected Snowden – by the NSA. [The Register]
22-08-2013: Opinion: NSA's surveillance programs are the "most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen." [BoingBoing]
22-08-2013: Judge: NSA “systematically violated” its own privacy requirements. [Ars Technica] [BBC News]
23-08-2013: NSA reveals more secrets after court order. [Stuff]
21-08-2013: Declassified documents prove the NSA is tapping the Internet. [Wired]
21-08-2013: The New York Times' prophetic 1983 warning about the NSA. [BoingBoing] [NYT] [Schneier]
21-08-2013: Secret court 'troubled' by NSA surveillance, ruled illegal. [ZDNet]
21-08-2013: The NSA has no idea what "transparency" means. [Gizmodo] [ProPublica]
21-08-2013: NSA collected up to 56,000 emails not connected to terrorism a year, blames error. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
22-08-2013: Every email in America's grasp. [Stuff]
22-08-2013: NSA collected thousands of Americans’ e-mails before FISA court ordered it to change tactics. [BoingBoing] [Washington Post]
21-08-2013: Censorship doesn't just stifle speech -- it can spread disease. [Wired]
21-08-2013: Brazilians tear strip off NSA in wake of Snowden, mull anti-US-spook law. [The Register]
20-08-2013: How the NSA bypassed the Fourth Amendment for 3 years. [EmptyWheel]
20-08-2013: WSJ reports NSA spying capabilities cover up to 75 percent of US internet traffic. [Engadget] [WSJ] [Gizmodo] [ReadWriteWeb] [DailyTech] [BGR] [WSJ]
20-08-2013: UK destroys Guardian drives over Snowden. [Stuff] [DailyTech]
20-08-2013: NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files. [The Guardian]
23-08-2013: 'You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back'. [The Register]
30-08-2013: UK gov asked NYT to destroy Snowden material. [BoingBoing] [Reuters]
17-08-2013: Ars Technicast, Ep. 32: NSA, Snowden, and why Lavabit had to go down. [Ars Technica]
16-08-2013: Leaked NSA audit shows privacy violations in cellular and fiber optic surveillance. [Engadget]
16-08-2013: NSA surveillance rife with legal problems, lack of oversight. [ReadWriteWeb]
16-08-2013: Newly published leaks show NSA’s thousands of privacy violations. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [Washington Post] [The Register] [DailyTech] [Wired] [Washington Post]
17-08-2013: NSA revelations stir concern. [Stuff]
15-08-2013: NSA spying: the three pillars of government trust have fallen. [EFF]
15-08-2013: The NSA oversteps its legal authority and the court can't stop it. [Gizmodo]
15-08-2013: Decoding NSA doublespeak. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
15-08-2013: NSA leaks trigger steep rise in ad/third-party-cookie blocking. [BoingBoing] [AdWeek]
15-08-2013: The NSA is commandeering the Internet. [Schneier]
14-08-2013: Can corporate suicide stop the NSA?. [Stuff]
13-08-2013: NSA-proof email encryption? Cobblers, sniff German hackers. [The Register]
12-08-2013: Schneier: when the NSA comes to your company's door, fight! [BoingBoing] [The Atlantic]
12-08-2013: The NSA turned spying into a video game for analysts. [Gizmodo] [Der Spiegel]
12-08-2013: Lawmakers tasked with overseeing NSA surveillance programs feel “inadequate”. [Ars Technica] [Washington Post]
13-08-2013: NSA review led by intel chief who lied about NSA domestic surveillance. [BoingBoing] [The Register]
13-08-2013: White House denies intel chief will lead NSA surveillance review. [The Hill]
10-08-2013: NSA by the numbers. [BuzzMachine]
10-08-2013: Don’t worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic. [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [NSA PDF] [The Register] [HardOCP] [cNet] [Network Computing]
14-08-2013: NSA “touches” more of Internet than Google. [Ars Technica]
09-08-2013: What it means to be an NSA 'target'. [Gizmodo]
09-08-2013: NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls. [The Guardian] [Ars Technica]
09-08-2013: Building a panopticon: The evolution of the NSA’s XKeyscore. [Ars Technica]
09-08-2013: NSA tries to justify its surveillance programmes with ridiculous assertions. [TechDirt]
09-08-2013: More on the NSA's weird, deceptive, indefensible definition of "targeted surveillance". [BoingBoing] [EFF]
09-08-2013: NSA leak: US can spy on Americans, despite direct statements of President, Congress, top spooks. [BoingBoing]
09-08-2013: U.S. President Obama to 'rebalance' NSA surveillance program, but is that enough? [iMore] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
09-08-2013: Obama proposes four-point plan to investigate US data spooks. [The Register] [TechDirt] [TNW] [NYT] [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [cNet]
10-08-2013: At press conference, Obama denounces Snowden—and promises reforms. [Ars Technica]
13-08-2013: Obama’s “reform” panel to be led by Clapper, who denied spying to Congress. [Ars Technica]
09-08-2013: NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access. [Reuters] [DailyTech] [BoingBoing] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [HardOCP] [Stuff] [Schneier] [BusinessInsider]
08-08-2013: NSA, on US soil, systematically searches Americans' cross-border communications without warrants. [BoingBoing] [NYT]
09-08-2013: NSA captures Americans’ Internet content if it mentions overseas suspects. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
08-08-2013: If Bruce Schneier ran the NSA, he’d ask a basic question: “Does it do any good?” [Ars Technica]
06-08-2013: What should be in the NSA surveillance reform legislation? [Gizmodo]
06-08-2013: Report: NSA spying deals billion dollar knockout to US cloud prospects. [The Register]
06-08-2013: NSA surveillance and mission creep. [Schneier]
05-08-2013: How to reform the NSA. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
05-08-2013: NSA revelations hurt hacker collaboration. [Stuff]
04-08-2013: Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA. [The Guardian]
03-08-2013: NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' hackers. [Reuters]
03-08-2013: Other agencies clamour for data NSA compiles. [NYT] [Ars Technica]
03-08-2013: Six blatant lies about spying from the NSA up to Obama. [BoingBoing] [ProPublica YouTube]
02-08-2013: Congress eyes renewed push for legislation to rein in the NSA. [The Guardian]
02-08-2013: Private-Public Surveillance Partnership: how the private sector has become an arm of the NSA. [BoingBoing] [Bloomberg]
02-08-2013: NSA's new meanings for common terms. [BoingBoing] [Slate]
02-08-2013: In response to NSA’s XKeyscore, Wikimedia to enable HTTPS by default. [TNW] [Ars Technica]
01-08-2013: Schneier: NSA secrecy kills trust. [BoingBoing] [CNN]
01-08-2013: NSA bribed UK spooks £100M for spying privileges. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [Ars Technica]
01-08-2013: Sounding the alarm: Ars speaks with vocal NSA critic Sen. Ron Wyden. [Ars Technica]
01-08-2013: In wake of leaks, US intelligence pulls back the curtain on metadata collection. [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Stuff]
31-07-2013: NSA-loving, Internet-hating Rep Mike Rogers' staffers say criticism is "defamation". [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
31-07-2013: NSA headman: 'Don't worry, our watchful analysts TAKE EXAMS'. [The Register]
31-07-2013: Senators lash out at NSA for excessive secrecy. [Washington Post]
31-07-2013: NSA director heckled at conference as he asks for security community's understanding. [Forbes] [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
31-07-2013: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything you do on the Internet'. [HardOCP] [The Guardian] [BoingBoing] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [DailyTech] [ExtremeTech] [Schneier]
01-08-2013: Snowden's XKeyscore revelations challenged. [The Register] [The Week]
31-07-2013: How NSA leaks are changing minds among the public -- and in Congress. [Ars Technica]
30-07-2013: NSA surveillance programmes to be partially declassified. [DailyTech] [CNN] [GigaOM]
30-07-2013: What the Ashcroft “Hospital Showdown” on NSA spying was all about. [Ars Technica]
28-07-2013: Researcher wins NSA cyber-security prize, says freedom is incompatible with the NSA "in its current form". [BoingBoing] [Light Blue Touchpaper] [WSJ ATD]
29-07-2013: NSA security award winner calls for hearings into agency's conduct. [The Register]
27-07-2013: Critics of NSA spying, including Glenn Greenwald, to testify before Congress. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
27-07-2013: Judge denies government’s bid to delay lawsuit to halt NSA metadata collection. [Ars Technica]
26-07-2013: Lawmakers who upheld NSA phone spying received double the defence industry cash. [Wired] [MapLight] [BoingBoing]
25-07-2013: NSA spying may be harming American tech companies’ bottom line. [BoingBoing] [Washington Post] [Ars Technica]
08-08-2013: NSA spying may cost cloud companies $35 billion. [SFGate]
14-08-2013: Netcraft: NSA surveillance disclosures not slowing US hosting growth. [DC Knowledge]
15-08-2013: NSA's PRISM could cost US cloud companies $45 billion. [Network Computing] [ReadWriteWeb]
15-09-2013: Analysis: Despite fears, NSA revelations helping U.S. tech industry. [Reuters]
25-07-2013: Feds tell major internet companies to hand over users' account passwords. [BoingBoing] [cNet] [Gizmodo]
25-07-2013: FBI, NSA want master encryption keys from Internet companies. [DailyTech]
25-07-2013: ANCHORY: NSA's 1990s catalog of spook assets. [BoingBoing] [MuckRock]
25-07-2013: Details on NSA/FBI eavestdropping. [Schneier] [BuzzFeed] [cNet] [The New Yorker]
25-07-2013: World+Dog hates PRISM: Cloud Security Alliance. [The Register]
24-07-2013: The secret FISA court must go. [Daily Beast]
24-07-2013: The government's coming for your encrypted data next. [Gizmodo]
24-07-2013: The NSA hated civilian encrypted data way back in the 1970s. [Gizmodo]
24-07-2013: NSA implements two-man control for sysadmins. [Schneier] [CBS News]
24-07-2013: Senator: Weak oversight of NSA may lead to massive location tracking. [Ars Technica]
23-07-2013: NSA: We lack the capability to search our own email. [BoingBoing] [Pro Publica] [Ars Technica]
23-07-2013: End warrantless dragnet supying -- DEFUND THE NSA! Act today! [BoingBoing] [DefundTheNSA]
23-07-2013: House vote on repealing NSA dragnet phone surveillance. [Wired] [Bloomberg] [BGR] [The Guardian]
24-07-2013: The White House blasts the "amash amendment" that would hamper the NSA's surveillance powers. [Business Insider] [Stuff]
24-07-2013: Jackboot dangled over NSA's throat for US spy dragnet outrage. [The Register]
25-07-2013: Congress nearly shuts down NSA phone dragnet in sudden 205-217 vote. [Ars Technica] [Slate] [BoingBoing] [Wired]
25-07-2013: NSA amendment's thin defeat sparks battle in Congress over privacy, surveillance. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
25-07-2013: Keep calm and carry on spying on Americans, US politicos tell NSA. [The Register]
20-07-2013: NSA head admits the agency made “huge set of mistakes” in 2009. [Ars Technica]
19-07-2013: Why doesn't Skype protect you against eavesdropping? [Gizmodo] [EFF]
19-07-2013: NSA phone snooping cannot be challenged in court, Feds say. [Wired] [Gizmodo] [RT] [HardOCP]
23-07-2013: How the FISA court undermines trust. [Schneier] [Ezra Klein]
19-07-2013: Sysadmins: Keep YOUR data away from NSA spooks. [The Register]
19-07-2013: NSA chief leaks info on data sharing tech: It's SharePoint. [The Register]
19-07-2013: You may already be a winner in NSA’s “three-degrees” surveillance sweepstakes. [Ars Technica]
19-07-2013: Tech giants named in PRISM want to see an NSA “transparency report”. [Ars Technica]
17-07-2013: Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and others call for more NSA transparency. [WSJ ATD]
17-07-2013: The NSA admits it analyses more people's data than previously revealed. [The Atlantic] [ReadWriteWeb]
17-07-2013: Why the NSA will have a tougher time spying through the Xbox One Kinect sensor. [BGR]
17-07-2013: Google experimenting with spy-resistant encrypted Google Drive. [BoingBoing] [cNet]
17-07-2013: GCHQ use of Prism surveillance data was legal, says report. [BBC News] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Engadget]
17-07-2013: Unlikely alliance against Prism. [Stuff]
17-07-2013: Man organizes satirical NSA walk, authorities come to his front door. [Ars Technica]
17-07-2013: New lawsuit is broadest challenge yet to NSA spying. [Ars Technica] [Wired] [BoingBoing] [EFF]
16-07-2013: Tapping submarine cables. [Schneier] [The Atlantic] [Washington Post]
15-07-2013: Yahoo wins court order to release records of its fight against PRISM. [Daily Dot] [BBC News] [WSJ ATD] [ExtremeTech] [The Register]
15-07-2013: For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to ‘collect it all,’ observers say. [Washington Post]
15-07-2013: EU Commissioner: we don't want US reading our email and listening to our phone calls. [WSJ ATD]
14-07-2013: NSA leaks revive push in Russia to control 'Net. [NYT]
13-07-2013: Telstra found to be storing data for USA intelligence services. [Geekzone]
17-07-2013: FCC to El Reg: Telstra's 'secret FBI snoop' doc public since 2001. [The Register]
13-07-2013: DEFCON to Feds: we need some time apart. [Krebs]
12-07-2013: Let's talk about FAIRVIEW, the NSA's plan to “Own the Internet”. [Gizmodo]
12-07-2013: Forget Snowden: What have we learned about the NSA? [The Register]
11-07-2013: Skype: reportedly funneling your calls to PRISM since 2011. [ReadWriteWeb] [cNet] [Ars Technica]
11-07-2013: Snowden leak: Microsoft added Outlook.com backdoor for Feds. [The Register]
11-07-2013: Microsoft responds to NSA data sharing allegations. [HardOCP] [Microsoft] [Microsoft] [ReadWriteWeb]
12-07-2013: Microsoft helped NSA, FBI access user info. [Stuff] [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [Engadget] [BBC News] [THG]
12-07-2013: Microsoft: Your privacy is our priority. No, seriously. Stop laughing! [WSJ ATD]
12-07-2013: Microsoft denies Skype-spying allegations. [ReadWriteWeb]
17-07-2013: Now Microsoft wants to reveal NSA requests. [Stuff] [BBC News]
17-06-2013: Microsoft: NSA harming constitution. [BoingBoing] [cNet]
11-07-2013: Facebook seeks spying exemption. [NZ Herald]
11-07-2013: Yahoo's fight to reveal its PRISM struggles. [Stuff]
10-07-2013: NSA's project SHAMROCK. [Schneier] [Ars Technica]
10-07-2013: Judge throws out “state secrets” defense in light of NSA leaks. [Ars Technica]
10-07-2013: How your Facebook can make you an NSA target. [Stuff]
09-07-2013: Nation will gain by discussing surveillance, expert tells privacy board. [NYT]
09-07-2013: EFF's NSA lawsuit goes ahead, thanks to Snowden leaks. [BoingBoing] [EFF]
08-07-2013: EPIC wants to sue NSA at the Supreme Court. [BoingBoing] [NYT] [Wired]
08-07-2013: Deals with foreign cable owners, secret court rulings broaden NSA spying potential. [Ars Technica]
06-07-2013: NSA rejecting every FOIA request made by US citizens. [Tikkun Daily] [BoingBoing]
06-07-2013: In secret, court vastly broadens powers of NSA. [NYT] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
05-07-2013: John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state. [Washington Post]
05-07-2013: Of mice, the NSA, GCHQ and data protection. [The Register]
05-07-2013: Anti-NSA surveillance protests gain traction on Independence Day. [WSJ ATD]
05-07-2013: Protesters target NSA data center. [DC Knowledge]
05-07-2013: I'm 'pretty comfy' with PRISM + 'It's Google. What else do you expect'. [The Register]
04-07-2013: European Parliament votes to investigate US surveillance of EU residents. [Engadget]
04-07-2013: European PRISM anger gains momentum with fresh cloud warnings and data threats. [GigaOM]
04-07-2013: Join the largest online protest since SOPA to stop NSA spying. [BoingBoing] [FightForTheFuture] [The Register] [Stuff]
04-07-2013: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence defends NSA surveillance programmes. [Schneier]
04-07-2013: Spy ties to Silicon Valley unravelled. [Stuff] [Reuters]
03-07-2013: How to talk to the NSA when they come recruiting. [BoingBoing] [TMOM]
03-07-2013: Spy on your own email to see exactly what the NSA has on you. [Gizmodo] [MIT]
03-07-2013: Ecuador: our London embassy was bugged. [BoingBoing] [Reuters]
03-07-2013: Anti-NSA web protest planned for 4th July. [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
03-07-2013: PRISM fallout: US Internet companies stained by intelligence actions. [ReadWriteWeb]
02-07-2013: Dubya: I introduced PRISM and I think it's pretty swell. [The Register]
02-07-2013: NSA email eavesdropping. [Schneier] [The Guardian] [The Guardian]
01-07-2013: How the NSA targets Germany and Europe. [Der Spiegel]
01-07-2013: George W Bush defends PRISM: "I put that program in place to protect the country". [Huffington Post]
01-07-2013: Misinformation on classified NSA programs incluydes statements by senior US officials. [Washington Post]
01-07-2013: Der Spiegel cover story on NSA surveillance of Europe. [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel: part 1, part 2, part 3]
01-07-2013: New slides show PRISM reach directly inside Internet companies. [ReadWriteWeb]
01-07-2013: How the NSA eavesdrops on Americans. [Schneier]
01-07-2013: How a 30-year-old lawyer exposed NSA mass surveillance of Americans -- in 1975. [Ars Technica]
30-06-2013: French and German fury over claims US bugged EU offices. [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [Der Spiegel] [The Verge] [Yahoo News] [Stuff]
30-06-2013: Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations. [The Guardian]
01-07-2013: PRISM leaks: WTF, you don't spy on your friends, splutters EU. [The Register]
30-06-2013: NZ firm linked to suspect spy row. [Stuff]
29-06-2013: Washington Post reveals new details, slides on PRISM data collection programme. [WSJ ATD] [Washington Post] [The Verge] [Gizmodo]
28-06-2013: One of the culprits behind PRISM? Design thinking. [Wired]
28-06-2013: Encryption has foiled wiretaps for first time, Feds say. [Wired]
28-06-2013: US DoD exempts itself from PRISM surveillance by creating its own 4G network. [GottaBeMobile]
28-06-2013: New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and BCC lines of e-mail data. [Ars Technica]
28-06-2013: Army restricts access to The Guardian in the wake of NSA leaks. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
28-06-2013: NSA collected masses of raw internet data. [Stuff]
27-06-2013: NSA leak vindicates AT&T whistleblower. [Wired]
27-06-2013: NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama. [The Guardian] [Wired] [Engadget]
27-06-2013: Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos points to AT&T, Verizon. [cNet]
27-06-2013: Secret US spy court lets Microsoft, Google reveal their petitions. [The Register]
27-06-2013: Pre-9/11 NSA thinking. [Schneier]
27-06-2013: Meet PRISM's little brother: Socmint. [Ars Technica]
26-06-2013: New bill aims to rein in NSA's snooping powers. [BGR] [PCWorld]
26-06-2013: Sir Tim Berners-Lee accuses government of “seriously spying” on the internet. [TrustedReviews]
26-06-2013: A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping. [The Register]
26-06-2013: US-UK intelligence sharing indispensable, says Hague. [BBC News]
25-06-2013: NSA takes surveillance fact sheets off website. [Politico]
25-06-2013: Q&A: NSA's PRISM internet surveillance scheme. [BBC News]
24-06-2013: Senators: NSA must correct inaccurate claims over privacy protections. [The Guardian]
24-06-2013: NSA surveillance leaks prompt legislation. [Wired]
24-06-2013: Privacy expert dismisses PRISM-busting typeface as 'art project'. [The Register] [Graham Cluley]
23-06-2013: Google handed over years of emails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin. [Ars Technica] [Wired]
23-06-2013: A privacy paradox and a peculiar particle: Ars readers react. [Ars Technica]
23-06-2013: Snowden: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data. [SCMP]
22-06-2013: Obama (candidate) vs Obama (president) on NSA spying. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
22-06-2013: British spying outstrips US effort. [NZ Herald] [BBC News] [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Wired]
21-06-2013: How web mail providers leave door open for NSA surveillance. [cNet]
21-06-2013: Using encryption? That means the US spooks have you on file. [The Register]
21-06-2013: NSA concedes Hadoop beats its pricey alternatives. [ReadWriteWeb]
21-06-2013: Lawmakers introduce bills requiring Obama to explain his secret interpretation of the spying laws. [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica]
21-06-2013: Here's looking at you. [Geoff Huston]
21-06-2013: Lawmakers introduce new bill to compel government to declassify secret court opinions. [Ars Technica]
21-06-2013: Use of TOR and email crypto could increase chances that NSA keeps your data. [Ars Technica]
20-06-2013: Five fun facts from the latest NSA leak. [Wired]
20-06-2013: Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant. [The Guardian] [Gizmodo] [EFF] [Engadget]
20-06-2013: More NSA leaks: how the NSA bends the truth about spying on Americans while insisting it doesn't spy on Americans. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [Engadget]
22-06-2013: Exactly how the NSA is getting away with spying on US citizens. [Gizmodo]
20-06-2013: NSA boss wants companies to be immunised from liability if they follow illegal orders from the NSA. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
20-06-2013: Love letter to an NSA agent. [Schneier] [HappyPlace] [Funny or Die]
20-06-2013: Feds: we can't give up cellular location data, because the NSA doesn't collect it. [Ars Technica]
19-06-2013:FBI admits it surveils US with drones. [Wired] [Gizmodo] [BBC News]
20-06-2013: FBI head says it's using surveillance drones in US skies "very seldom". [Ars Technica]
21-06-2013: Why won't the FBI tell the public about its drone programme? [Gizmodo]
19-06-2013: FISA court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process. [The Guardian]
19-06-2013: Petition the NSA to subject its surveillance programme to public comment. [Schneier]
19-06-2013: Cost/benefit of NSA surveillance. [Schneier] [Chronicle] [CNN] [WSJ]
19-06-2013: Chinese hackers launch PRISM scare campaign. [The Register]
19-07-2013: Use PRISM Break to reduce your NSA-related paranoia. [Gizmodo] [Prism Break]
19-07-2013: Google challenges US gag order, citing First Amendment. [Washington Post] [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [ReadWriteWeb] [Wired] [Stuff]
18-06-2013: NSA implementing 'two-person' rule to stop the next Snowden. [Forbes]
18-06-2013: Confirmed: court "oversight" of NSA surveillance is a total joke. [Gizmodo]
18-06-2013: Job networking site LinkedIn filled with secret NSA programme names. [Kinja]
18-06-2013: FISA request roundup: who has been asked and how often? [Engadget] [Schneier]
18-06-2013: The NSA hearing, by the numbers. [Wired]
18-06-2013: NSA chief defends surveillance programmes. [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
18-06-2013: NSA leaks forcing more official transparency. [BoingBoing] [FotPF]
18-06-2013: Evidence that the NSA is storing voice content, not just metadata. [Schneier] [Rubbing Alcoholic]
19-06-2013: NSA is just collecting metadata. [Wired]
18-06-2013: NSA secrecy and personal privacy. [Schneier] [Washington Post]
18-06-2013: Obama: NSA spying keeps America safe, so get over it. [Gizmodo] [The Verge]
18-06-2013: Texas becomes first state to require warrant for email snooping. [Ars Technica] [BGR]
17-06-2013: Yahoo discloses some government data request information. [WSJ ATD] [Engadget] [TNW] [BBC News] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
17-06-2013: Tales from the history of NSA spying. [BoingBoing] [Daily Dot]
17-06-2013: NSA says it can spy on your location if it wants, but it chooses not to. [BGR] [WSJ] [The Register]
17-06-2013: NSA leaker may be killed in drone strike, says Ron Paul. [DailyTech]
17-06-2013: The Snowden principle. [BoingBoing]
17-06-2013: Blowback from the NSA surveillance. [Schneier]
17-06-2013: Apple issues rare public comment on its 'commitment to customer privacy'. [AppleInsider] [Apple] [TNW] [Engadget] [iMore] [TUAW] [MobileBurn] [BGR] [Stuff]
17-06-2013: NSA PRISM snoop-gate: won't someone think of the children, wails Apple. [The Register]
17-06-2013: Apple claims it can't decrypt Facetime and iMessage data, details extent over government requests. [The Verge] [Ars Technica]
17-06-2013: Assume everything is being collected. [Stuff]
16-06-2013: 3 NSA veterans speak out on whistleblower: we told you so. [USA Today]
16-06-2013: The NSA can afford to store data from years of phone calls. [Gizmodo]
16-06-2013: The NSA doesn't need a warrant to listen to your calls. [Gizmodo] [cNet]
16-06-2013: US government denies reports that NSA listens to domestic calls without legal authorisation. [TechCrunch]
16-06-2013: Details emerge about PRISM, big tech companies release data request reports. [Ars Technica] [Washington Post]
16-06-2013: The old-school tech from the NSA's past. [Gizmodo]
16-06-2013: The world is listening. [Stuff]
15-06-2013: NSA admits listening to US phone calls without warrants. [cNet] [BoingBoing]
15-06-2013: Obama considering releasing NSA court order. [NPR]
15-06-2013: Why you should care about surveillance. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
15-06-2013: Spying on the home front: a 2007 PBS Frontline worth revisiting. [BoingBoing] [PBS]
15-06-2013: The secret behind NSA's PRISM programme? Even bigger data seizure. [BoingBoing] [AP]
15-06-2013: The whistleblower's guide to the Orwellian galaxy: how to leak to the press. [Wired]
15-06-2013: Google, Twitter push to reveal number of national security related requests separately. [Engadget]
14-06-2013: Microsoft releases government data request stats: over 6,000 in 6 months. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Microsoft]
15-06-2013: A closer look at Microsoft's FISA disclosure numbers. [WSJ ATD]
15-06-2013: Internet companies begin releasing some data on government spying. [BoingBoing]
18-06-2013: Google formally pteitions to publish statistics on FISA requests. [WSJ ATD]
15-06-2013: Encrypted email: how much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away? [Ars Technica]
14-06-2013: NSA-proof encryption exists -- why doesn't anyone use it? [Washington Post]
14-06-2013: Thumb your nose at the NSA with Raspberry Pi. [Wired]
14-06-2013: Yahoo supplied data to PRISM only after losing scrappy FISA fight. [Wired]
14-06-2013: Bills would clip NSA's wings on phone data. [Politico]
14-06-2013: Source: don't worry, NSA spies on 99% of Americans' locations, call records. [DailyTech]
14-06-2013: Foreign owners blocked T-Mobile, Verizon from NSA snoops. [The Register]
14-06-2013: Not just telcos, thousands of companies share data with US spies. [The Register]
14-06-2013: If the NSA's PRISM is no big deal, why was Yahoo in court fighting it? [BoingBoing] [NYT]
14-06-2013: Leaked memo details NSA talking points on PRISM. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
14-06-2013: Facebook in talks with Feds to allow FISA disclosures. [WSJ ATD]
14-06-2013: Facebook reaches agreement with Feds to allow data request disclosures. [WSJ ATD] [Facebook]
14-06-2013: Google calls Facebook's data disclosure deal with the Feds "a step back for users". [WSJ ATD]
14-06-2013: Twitter backs Google, says Facebook made mistake in data disclosure deal with Feds. [WSJ ATD]
14-06-2013: FISA request could soon be public, with Google also in talks with US government about more disclosure. [WSJ ATD]
14-06-2013: Microsoft's US law enforcement and national security requests for last half of 2012. [TechNet]
14-06-2013: Facebook, Microsoft release NSA stats to reassure users. [cNet]
14-06-2013: Tech companies swapped data with government agencies. [HardOCP] [Bloomberg]
15-06-2013: NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests. [BBC News]
14-06-2013: Government requested information on as many as 15,000 Facebook accounts. [WSJ ATD]
14-06-2013: US agencies said to swap data with thousands of firms. [Bloomberg]
14-06-2013: How to pick your battles in the war against transparency. [Gizmodo]
14-06-2013: What we still don't know about PRISM. [Gizmodo]
14-06-2013: Edward Snowden used a thumb drive to smuggle thousands of PRISM files. [Gizmodo] [LA Times] [Wired] [The Register]
14-06-2013: For the first time, secret court won't block release of NSA opinion. [Ars Technica]
14-06-2013: An open letter to my friend, the NSA. [Ars Technica]
13-06-2013: Why "I have nothing to hide" is the wrong way to think about surveillance. [Wired]
13-06-2013: T-Mobile, Verizon don't directly share call data to NSA, but that might not matter. [Engadget] [WSJ]
13-06-2013: Secret court ruling put tech companies in data bind. [NYT]
13-06-2013: Escape from PRISM: how Twitter defies government data-sharing. [The Verge]
13-06-2013: Why Americans should be worried about state surveillance. [BoingBoing] [Digby]
13-06-2013: Snowden's claims complicate US-China ties. [WSJ]
13-06-2013: NSA chief drops hint about ISP web, email surveillance. [cNet]
13-06-2013: Accused bank robber wants NSA phone records for his defense. [BoingBoing] [SunSentinel]
13-06-2013: How the NSA could get so smart so fast. [WSJ]
13-06-2013: Essays related to NSA spying documents. [Schneier]
13-06-2013: PRISM snitch claims NSA hacked Chinese targets since 2009. [The Register]
13-06-2013: NSA chief says data disrupted 'dozens' of plots. [BBC News] [WSJ] [BusinessWeek] [The Register]
15-06-2013: NSA programmes broke plots in 20 nations. [AP] [Ars Technica]
16-06-2013: US officials say less than 300 phone numbers were investigated in 2012, data thwarted terrorist plots. [Engadget]
18-06-2013: FBI deputy director claims intelligence programmes foiled NYC subway and NYSE bombings, among others. [Engadget]
18-06-2013: NSA disruption of stock exchange bomb plot disputed. [Wired]
19-06-2013: NSA head says digital spying has distrupted a 'little over 10' plots domestically. [Ars Technica]
18-06-2013: NSA's role in two terror cases was concealed from defense lawyers. [Wired] [Ars Technica]
12-06-2013: NSA revelations only 'tip of the iceberg', says Democrat lawmaker. [The Hill]
12-06-2013: Not much political will to change NSA's no-longer-secret spying programme. [BoingBoing] [WSJ]
12-06-2013: Moxie Marlinspike on the NSA spying revelations: we should all have something to hide. [BoingBoing] [Thought Crime]
12-06-2013: US congressman who introduced PATRIOT act says Obama administration's excuses over NSA spying are "bunk". [BoingBoing] [National Review]
12-06-2013: The secret war. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
12-06-2013: NSA revelations damaging for American tech companies... especially in China. [GeekWire]
12-06-2013: Rep. Senator Peter King on NSA leaks: prosecute the journalists. [DailyTech] [BoingBoing] [FotPF]
12-06-2013: How NSA spooks spaffed my dad's data all over the web. [The Register]
12-06-2013: PRISM and privacy: what could they know about me? [BBC News]
12-06-2013: Connecting the dots on PRISM, phone surveillance, and the NSA's massive spy center. [Wired]
12-06-2013: John Key: Snowden not welcome in New Zealand. [Stuff]
12-06-2013: What the NSA can do with "big data". [Ars Technica]
12-06-2013: At Facebook shareholder meeting, Zuckerberg stands behind his initial PRISM denial. [TechCrunch] [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
12-06-2013: Rogue spy may lead US a merry dance. [NZ Herald]
11-06-2013: PRISM's effect on bitcoin prices. [CoinDesk]
11-06-2013: HOWTO FOIA the NSA. [BoingBoing] [MuckRock]
11-06-2013: NSA leaks present a business and ethics crisis for Silicon Valley. [Wired]
11-06-2013: Connecting the PRISM dots: my new theory. [Uncrunched]
11-06-2013: Google's read secret spy program? Secure FTP. [Wired] [WSJ] [Gizmodo]
11-06-2013: Poll shows majority of Americans fine with NSA phone record tracking. [BGR] [Pew Research] [Ars Technica]
11-06-2013: Europeans plan to fight back against PRISM. [BGR]
11-06-2013: World Wide Web inventor decries NSA data collection programme. [BGR]
11-06-2013: Facebook CEO repeats PRISM denial. [HardOCP] [cNet]
11-06-2013: Keep calm and carry on: PRISM itself is not a big deal. [The Register]
11-06-2013: That NSA PRISM Powerpoint deck: a better-designed version, and what's in the missing slides? [BoingBoing]
12-06-2013: The best and worst redesigns of PRISM's atrocious Powerpoint. [Gizmodo]
12-06-2013: NSA accused of new crimes... against slideware. [The Register]
11-06-2013: Ai Weiwei on PRISM. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
11-06-2013: The Verizon order, the NSA, and what call records might reveal about psychiatric patients. [BoingBoing] [PHIprivacy]
11-06-2013: PRISM fallout part 2: will companies store more data behind the firewall? [ReadWriteWeb]
11-06-2013: Cause for concern over US email spying. [Stuff]
10-06-2013: NSA leak prompts questions over US reliance on contractors. [Reuters]
10-06-2013: What's in the rest of the top-secret NSA Powerpoint deck? [Wired]
10-06-2013: Making sense of the NSA PRISM leak as the real details emerge. [ExtremeTech]
10-06-2013: How the NSA's PRISM affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on. [ExtremeTech]
10-06-2013: The NSA's PRISM leak could fundamentally change or break the entire Internet. [ExtremeTech]
10-06-2013: CIA-funded upstart: the truth about PRISM and NSA's web snooping. [The Register]
10-06-2013: US chief spook: look, we only want to spy on 6.6 billion of you. [The Register]
10-06-2013: Technology emboldened the NSA. [WSJ]
10-06-2013: Government secrets and the need for whistleblowers. [Schneier]
10-06-2013: First lawsuit over NSA phone scandal targets Obama, Verizon. [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [DailyTech]
12-06-2013: Apple, Tim Cook, and others sued over alleged NSA/PRISM privacy violations. [MacRumors]
09-06-2013: NSA whistleblower: the ultimate insider attack. [Wired]
09-06-2013: US, company officials: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data. [Washington Post]
09-06-2013: Why the metadata the NSA has on you matters. [Gizmodo]
09-06-2013: Tech giants built segregated systems for NSA instead of firehoses to protect innocent users from PRISM. [TechCrunch]
09-06-2013: New PRISM slide shows NSA taking data directly from company servers. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
09-06-2013: Boundless Informant: the NSA tool that watches the entire planet. [Gizmodo] [The Guardian] [BoingBoing] [Engadget]
09-06-2013: Call connected through the NSA: Ars readers react. [Ars Technica]
08-06-2013: Intel director sets record straight on PRISM, sort of. [Wired]
08-06-2013: Analysing Yahoo's PRISM non-denial. [Slight Paranoia]
08-06-2013: PRISM and Canada: what are the implications of American spooks gone wild? [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
08-06-2013: US government: PRISM isn't data mining system, doesn't pull data off servers. [Marketing Land]
08-06-2013: Director of National Intelligence declassifies PRISM info to clear up 'inaccuracies'. [Engadget]
09-06-2013: National Intelligence director press release. [Gizmodo] [DNI Office]
09-06-2013: Official government fact sheet on what PRISM is and does. [Gizmodo] [DNI]
08-06-2013: Google says the government has 'no access' to servers. [BBC News]
08-06-2013: PRISM and denials -- what's going on? [BoingBoing] [Gizmodo] [NYT]
08-06-2013: US government offers first concrete details on PRISM, confirming existence, but arguing it is misunderstood. [WSJ ATD]
08-06-2013: NSA PRISM: why I'm boycotting US cloud tech -- and you should too. [The Register]
08-06-2013: Obama defends digital spying: "I think we've struck the right balance." [Ars Technica] [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
08-06-2013: Through a PRISM darkly: tracking the ongoing NSA surveillance story. [GigaOM]
07-06-2013: US surveillance revelations deepend European fears. [Reuters]
07-06-2013: Under the covers of the NSA's big data effort. [GigaOM]
07-06-2013: Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks. [Reuters] [Reuters]
07-06-2013: Solving the mystery of PRISM. [The Week]
07-06-2013: No evidence of NSA's 'direct access' to tech companies. [cNet]
07-06-2013: The tech companies in PRISM aren't telling the complete truth. [Gizmodo] [Uncrunched]
07-06-2013: Public documents contradict claim email spying foiled terror plot. [BuzzFeed]
07-06-2013: What are you going to do following the NSA's massive privacy invasion? [Gizmodo]
08-06-2013: What the NSA spying scandal means for you. [Lifehacker]
07-06-2013: Anonymous just leaked a trove of NSA documents. [Gizmodo]
07-06-2013: What is PRISM? [Gizmodo]
07-06-2013: An early online privacy expert revisits his 1985 predictions today. [Gizmodo]
07-06-2013: Why I just don't give a shit about PRISM, or any other spying. [Gizmodo]
07-06-2013: Why is anyone surprised that the government spies on us? [Gizmodo]
07-06-2013: Want to know everything about everyone? Work the PRISM for Palantir! [Kinja]
07-06-2013: PRISM: here's what you need to know. [HardOCP] [TNW]
07-06-2013: Obama on NSA spying: Congress has known about it and approved for years. [The Verge]
07-06-2013: Dissecting big tech's denial of involvement in NSA's PRISM spying programme. [ABC News]
07-06-2013: Washington Post backtracks on claim tech companies "participated knowingly" in PRISM data collection. [TNW] [Washington Post]
07-06-2013: Facebook, like Apple and Google, had never heard of PRISM. [The Verge] [ReadWriteWeb]
08-06-2013: Denials in US snooping programme require decoding. [Stuff]
07-06-2013: Facebook response by Mark Zuckerberg. [Facebook]
07-06-2013: "Direct access" is the defining phrase of the NSA scandal. [BuzzFeed]
07-06-2013: Here's why the NSA's Verizon metadata collection is so troubling. [BGR] [The New Yorker]
07-06-2013: How the US government has spied on almost every American for a decade. [ExtremeTech]
07-06-2013: US spyboss: yes, we are snooping on you, but think of the terrorists. [The Register]
07-06-2013: We're losing the battle with a government seduced by surveillance. [The Register]
07-06-2013: Obama promised to end warrantless wiretaps in 2008. [BoingBoing] [cNet]
07-06-2013: PRISM: Just how much do the spooks know? [BBC News]
07-06-2013: GCHQ PRISM spying claims: Labour urges PM to launch investigation. [BBC News]
07-06-2013: UK spies have access to NSA PRISM. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [Engadget]
08-06-2013: GCHQ PRISM spying claims: agency report 'shortly'. [BBC News]
09-06-2013: Law-abiding Britons have nothing to fear from GCHQ. [BBC News] [The Register]
13-06-2013: Nick Clegg: agencies' access to data is legal and proportionate. [BBC News]
07-06-2013: What the...? [Google]
07-06-2013: The NSA surveillance story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is so important. [GigaOM]
07-06-2013: Here's how the NSA analyses all that call data. [GigaOM]
06-06-2013: Triangulating the truth -- the totalitarian state. [Uncrunched]
06-06-2013: Schneier: what we need the whistleblowers to tell us about America's surveillance apparatus. [BoingBoing] [The Atlantic]
06-06-2013: WSJ: NSA snooping extends to AT&T, Sprint and other ISPs. [Engadget]
06-06-2013: Also revealed by Verizon leak: how the NSA and FBI lie with numbers. [Wired]
06-06-2013: Google, Apple and Facebook outright deny they're helping the NSA mine data. [WSJ ATD]
06-06-2013: NSA is wired into top Internet companies' serviers, including Google and Facebook. [Wired] [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [ReadWriteWeb] [Washington Post] [Stuff] [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [iMore]
07-06-2013: Report: AT&T and Sprint are working with the NSA too. [Gizmodo]
06-06-2013: NSA slides explaining PRISM data-collection programme. [Washington Post] [The Register]
06-06-2013: How to avoid NSA spying. [BGR]
06-06-2013: What the NSA wants to know about you and your phone. [WSJ ATD]
06-06-2013: Modern data centers fuel NSA's Verizon phone spying. [WSJ ATD]
06-06-2013: Obama defends phone-record tracking as "critical tool". [WSJ ATD] [The Guardian] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [The Register]
06-06-2013: Obama administration authorised spying on up to a third of Americans. [DailyTech]
06-06-2013: Leaked docs show NSA collect data on all Verizon customers. [The Register] [The Guardian] [The Guardian] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [ReadWriteWeb] [Engadget]
2012 – News / Articles
27-12-2012: Warrantless email snooping could still be killed. [BoingBoing] [BuzzFeed]
28-12-2012: As Senate votes on warrantless wiretapping, opponents offer fixes. [Ars Technica]
28-12-2012: FISA fail: Senate to keep spying on citizens. [ReadWriteWeb] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Wired] [Gizmodo] [BoingBoing] [EFF] [AP]
03-01-2013: Obama signs warrantless wiretapping bill. [THG]
22-12-2012: Pirate Bay censorship backfires as new proxies bloom. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
21-12-2012: Congress defeats email privacy legislation -- again. [Wired]
21-12-2012: Senator pushes data cap and ISP monitoring legislation. [The Register]
20-12-2012: Brand new COPPA amendments are already behind the times. [ReadWriteWeb]
20-12-2012: NSA's super-secure database dodges bullet from Senate. [Wired]
19-12-2012: uTorrent makers distance themselves from piracy. [TorrentFreak]
19-12-2012: Pirate Bay proxy gets shut down after music industry legal threat. [BBC News]
17-12-2012: TOR: an anonymous, and controversial, way to web-surf. [WSJ]
17-12-2012: ISP walks out of piracy talks. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
15-12-2012: Internet porn: automatic block rejected. [BBC News] [HardOCP]
16-12-2012: Google changes SafeSearch filtering of explicit results. [ReadWriteWeb]
21-12-2012: Victory for the tabloids -- online porn to be filtered by default in UK. [Ars Technica]
15-12-2012: Government seeks to shut down NSA wiretapping lawsuit. [Ars Technica]
14-12-2012: China tightens 'Great Firewall' Internet control with new technology. [The Guardian]
14-12-2012: MPAA and Google square off over pirate search results. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
12-12-2012: Hurt Locker studio asks indie ISP to cough up users' IP addresses. [Ars Technica]
10-12-2012: TOR node admin raided by cops appeals for help with legal bills. [The Register]
09-12-2012: Russia and China are pushing for more government control over the Internet. [Gizmodo] [Reuters]
09-12-2012: Federal agency wants black boxes in every new car by September 2014. [Ars Technica]
08-12-2012: Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu "spyware" because it tracks searches. [Ars Technica] [TNW]
07-12-2012: 'Facebook is completely undreamt of even by the worst spying nation'. [The Register]
07-12-2012: Leveson: Internet needs new privacy laws. [BBC News]
04-12-2012: Deleted files linger on. [Stuff]
03-12-2012: Aussie spying labelled 'out of control'. [Stuff]
01-12-2012: How four Microsoft engineers proved that the 'darknet' would defeat DRM. [Ars Technica]
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27-11-2012: FBI uses social media to look for securities fraud. [Stuff] [Reuters]
25-11-2012: Britons -- stop the snooper's charter, end the government's spying plan. [BoingBoing] [Open Rights Group] [YouTube]
20-11-2012: Vanising 'copywrong' document blasts RIAA, suggests radical reform, and should be taken seriously. [Engadget]
17-11-2012: How ISPs will do "six strikes": throttled speeds, blocked sites. [Ars Technica]
16-11-2012: Taliban official's email blunder leaks 400+ contacts. [HardOCP] [The Register] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo] [ABC News] [BoingBoing] [Yahoo News]
16-11-2012: Kevin Kelly on the end of anonymity. [BoingBoing] [Google+]
15-11-2012: Cable companies say they won't disconnect accused pirates. [cNet]
15-11-2012: Act now to stop unaccountable, censor-friendly UN agency from hijacking control of the Internet. [BoingBoing] [WhatIsTheITU]
14-11-2012: Transparency report: government requests on the rise. [Google Blog] [The Register] [Engadget]
13-11-2012: What is your digital trail? [Juniper]
12-11-2012: Cat and mouse game with China's censors. [BBC News]
09-11-2012: Australia back down on Internet filter plan. [Stuff] [HardOCP] [ABC News]
30-10-2012: Rap news on Internet surveillance. [Schneier] [YouTube]
30-10-2012: Exposing your personal information -- there's an app for that. [Juniper]
26-10-2012: Warrantless eavesdropping before Supreme Court. [Wired]
25-10-2012: Consumer group urges Aussies to spoof IP addresses. [The Register]
22-10-2012: UN calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance. [HardOCP] [cNet]
19-10-2012: Is it possible to be truly anonymous in an online community? [Lifehacker]
19-10-2012: Kiwi three strikes piracy case collapses. [The Register] [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak] [Ars Technica]
20-10-2012: RIANZ drops two 'Skynet' music copyright cases. [Stuff]
17-10-2012: The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to avoid shutdown. [BBC News] [ExtremeTech] [The Register] [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak] [Ars Technica] [Hexus]
16-10-2012: How to create a super private BitTorrent community for you and your friends. [Lifehacker]
16-10-2012: How a single DMCA notice took down 1.45 million education blogs. [Ars Technica]
12-10-2012: Rumour: six-strikes anti-piracy plan rolling out next month. [Gizmodo]
19-10-2012: "Six strikes" system goes live this fall, appeals cost $35. [Ars Technica]
22-10-2012: Six strikes "independent expert" is RIAA's fomer lobbying firm. [TorrentFreak]
11-10-2012: Social media laws to be discussed in wake of prosecutions. [BBC News]
04-10-2012: Privacy guardian wants one EU rulebook on ID databases. [The Register]
02-10-2012: Torrent sites go offline as police raid alleged copyright infringers. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak] [The Register]
28-09-2012: US said to designate Assange "enemy of the state". [The Register]
28-09-2012: NZ prime minister apologises for illegal Dotcom spying. [Ars Technica] [TorrentFreak] [The Register] [HardOCP] [ABC]
26-09-2012: Inside NZ police Megaupload files: US investigation begin in 2010. [Wired] [Ars Technica]
05-10-2012: Kim Dotcom suspected government snopping because of a 150mSec connection delay in Modern Warfare 3. [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald]
27-09-2012: California law passed to halt employer snooping on social media. [cNet]
27-09-2012: Feds spying on social network accounts without warrants. [HardOCP] [cNet]
22-09-2012: FBI renews broad Internet surveillance push. [cNet]
21-09-2012: EU officials proposer Internet cops on patrol, no anonymity and no obscure languages -- because of terrorism. [TechDirt]
19-09-2012: Tech giants form Internet-freedom lobby to counter MPAA, RIAA clout. [Wired] [Engadget]
18-09-2012: NSA to AT&T customers who believe wiretapping violates their rights: neener neener neener. [BoingBoing] [Courthouse News]
14-09-2012: Demanding a student's Facebook password a violation of first amendment rights, judge says. [TechDirt] [HardOCP] [TNW]
14-09-2012: Facebook could help you hide your identity. [Gizmodo]
14-09-2012: Twitter reluctantly coughs up occupy protester's data. [Wired] [Gizmodo]
13-09-2012: You are officially not responsible for porn stolen with your unsecured Wi-Fi. [Gizmodo]
13-09-2012: House approves another 5 years of warrantless wiretapping. [Ars Technica] [Wired]
13-09-2012: Cops might finally need a warrant to read your Gmail. [Ars Technica]
08-09-2012: Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping. [HardOCP] [Ars Technica]
08-09-2012: Google gets tons of takedown requests for sites that don't even exist anymore. [Gizmodo] [Google]
07-09-2012: Tim Berners-Lee blasts UK government's Internet spying plan. [BoingBoing] [The Telegraph]
07-09-2012: Internet video's robotic, idiotic copyright cops. [BoingBoing] [Wired]
07-09-2012: FBI launches $1 billion nationwide facial recognition system. [ExtremeTech] [HardOCP] [New Scientist] [Gizmodo] [ReadWriteWeb] [THG]
06-09-2012: FBI vs Google: the legal fight to unlock phones. [WSJ]
06-09-2012: Out of control copyright bots are making a mockery of DMCA. [ExtremeTech]
06-09-2012: Jimmy Wales: we'll encrypt Wikipedia if reborn gov net-snoop plan goes live. [The Register] [HardOCP] [The Guardian] [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing] [TechWeek]
05-09-2012: Why you should start using a VPN. [Lifehacker]
04-09-2012: Your cellphone is a tracking device that lets you make calls. [BoingBoing] [n+1]
04-09-2012: Every time you torrent, Feds log your IP in just 3 hours. [Gizmodo]
04-09-2012: Nowhere to hide: secret spy sat agency plans unblinking array. [Wired]
30-08-2012: Warrantless wiretap victims ask court to reconsider letting Feds spy illegally. [Wired]
31-08-2012: EFF sues to get secret court rulings showing Feds violated spy law. [Wired]
24-08-2012: MPAA says "they're doing something" about offering legit services, ignores the fact that they're doing it poorly. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
24-08-2012: RIAA lobbyist turned judge runs a fantasy courtroom, the only one in America where they don't laugh copyright trolls out the door. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
21-08-2012: Precrime creeps closer to reality with predictive smartphone location tracking. [ExtremeTech]
17-08-2012: RIAA budget shrinks nearly 50% over 2 years. [BoingBoing] [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
27-08-2012: MPAA joins RIAA in having budgets slashed. [HardOCP] [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
15-08-2012: Judge throws out FBI wiretapping case in interest of protecting state secrets. [BoingBoing] [LA Times]
15-08-2012: Dotcom: MPAA/RIAA corrupted the US Government. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
14-08-2012: Mobile apps could be affected by new COPPA privacy rules for kids. [ReadWriteWeb]
13-08-2012: MPAA / RIAA want US to help quash The Pirate Bay. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
09-08-2012: New data exposes BitTorrent throttling ISPs. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
08-08-2012: Court decides warrantless wiretapping is OK. [Gizmodo] [Wired]
05-08-2012: Leaked MPAA memo reveals TVShack press strategy. [TorrentFreak]
06-08-2012: MPAA seeks UK sock-puppets to help them screw over TVShack's likeable, innocent owner. [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak]
31-07-2012: The Power of Internet censorship, in one chart. [The Atlantic]
26-07-2012: The known unknowns of Skype interception. [Slight Paranoia]
17-07-2012: Secret UK censorship court orders BBC not to air documentary. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [BBC]
17-07-2012: BBC lawyers consider formal appeal over court ban on riots drama. [The Guardian]
17-07-2012: NZ judge in Kim Dotcom case calls US "the enemy" on IP policy. [Ars Technica]
15-07-2012: FBI expands anti-piracy logo use to all copyright holders. [HardOCP] [TechDirt]
12-07-2012: Russia's new censorship law diminishes the entire Internet. [ReadWriteWeb]
10-07-2012: New data shows dramatic increase in wireless surveillance by law enforcement. [ExtremeTech]
09-07-2012: Russian Wikipedia blacks out over censorship plan. [BoingBoing] [Slashdot] [BBC News] [Ars Technica]
09-07-2012: Op-ed: MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations". [Ars Technica]
07-07-2012: Security firm in Tor Project mass surveillance row responds. [The Register]
06-07-2012: Five things you should know to keep the man from snooping on your digital stuff. [Lifehacker]
05-07-2012: BitTorrent usage increases in Europe, following the blockade of The Pirate Party. [ExtremeTech]
04-07-2012: Celebrate freedom -- support a free and open Internet -- declaration of Internet freedom. [Google] [The Register] [Lifehacker]
03-07-2012: Pirate Party UK backs VPN service to "bring back some privacy". [Hexus]
02-07-2012: Copyright act gets digital upgrade. [The Register]
29-06-2012: FOIA request forces DoJ to reveal national security letter templates. [Ars Technica]
26-06-2012: UK ISPs will have to notify broadband users of piracy violations under draft Ofcom code. [The Verge]
25-06-2012: Proxy your way to online anonymity. [Wired]
22-06-2012: RIAA's new war: shutting down the equivalent of Internet VCRs. [TechDirt]
20-06-2012: Washington's 5 worst arguments for keeping secrets from you. [Wired]
19-06-2012: Brussels could clash with London over UK snooper's charter. [The Register]
18-06-2012: MPAA/RIAA ponder suing persistent bittorrent pirates. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
18-06-2012: Canada's apocalyptically crap copyright law passes -- but it could have been worse. [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
14-06-2012: Plenty to hide. [Lifehacker] [ACLU]
14-06-2012: May setting out plans to monitor Internet use in the UK. [BBC News]
14-06-2012: Tories divided over UK spying bill. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
12-06-2012: New HTTP censorship status code proposed by Google's Tim Bray. [TrustedReviews] [BoingBoing] [IETF Draft]
11-06-2012: RIAA CEO not mauled by tech crowd. [HardOCP] [cNet]
08-06-2012: The Pirate Bay evades ISP blockade with IPv6, can do it 18 quintillion more times. [ExtremeTech]
06-06-2012: 30,000 secret surveillance orders are made every year. [Gizmodo]
06-06-2012: The curious case of Internet privacy. [Technology Review]
06-06-2012: RIAA wants search engines to censor pirate sites. [HardOCP] [TorrentFreak]
04-06-2012: Why London's police just set a horrifying precedent on mobile privacy. [ReadWriteWeb]
01-06-2012: Which Internet companies protect you from the government, and which don't. [Gizmodo]
31-05-2012: RIAA: Google doesn't do enough to fight piracy. [HardOCP] [RIAA @ Twitter] [Search Engine Land]
01-06-2012: RIAA wants to issue unlimited takedowns to Google. [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
29-05-2012: Google now gets 250k copyright takedown requests each week. [The Register]
24-05-2012: MPAA: switching up tactics to fight piracy. [DailyTech]
23-05-2012: Pirate Bay announces new IP address, proxy-friendly design. [BoingBoing] [TorrentFreak]
22-05-2012: FBI quietly forms secretive 'Net-surveillance unit. [cNet]
25-05-2012: The FBI is now officially spying in your Internet activity. [Gizmodo]
22-05-2012: New York legislation would ban anonymous online speech. [Wired]
21-05-2012: MPAA head thinks piracy shouldn't be called "theft". [Gizmodo]
09-05-2012: Queen unveils draft Internet super-snoop bill -- with clauses. [The Register]
07-05-2012: Seized hip-hop site lashes out a feds, RIAA. [Wired]
04-05-2012: Canada failing to sufficiently protect IP rights -- US report. [The Register]
04-05-2012: Happy day against DRM! [BoingBoing] [Defective by Design]
03-05-2012: Google's fibre makes MPAA skittish -- why does Hollywood see all technology in terms of piracy? [TechDirt]
03-05-2012: Judge rules you can't be (definitively) identified by your IP address. [Gizmodo]
30-04-2012: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules. [BBC News] [Wired] [THG] [Hexus]
02-05-2012: The Pirate Bay responds to UK ISP block. [THG]
03-05-2012: Virgin Media cuts Pirate Bay access for millions of punters. [The Register] [THG]
03-05-2012: Pirate Bay sees traffic increase by 12 million after UK block. [THG]
04-05-2012: Jolly rogered. [The Register]
20-06-2012: Brit telco flagship BT joins blockade of Pirate Bay. [The Register]
20-06-2012: The Pirate Bay says BT block already breached. [BBC News]
23-04-2012: Can Anonymous fix online music? [ReadWriteWeb]
23-04-2012: Jimmy Wales to Hollywood: you're doomed, and not because of privacy. [Wired]
20-04-2012: Tomorrow's privacy struggles, on display today. [NYT Bits]
19-04-2012: Raskally fellows: are copyright infringers pirates and thieves? [Ars Technica]
17-04-2012: Tim Berners-Lee urges government to stop the snooping bill. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [The Register]
18-04-2012: Berners-Lee: don't let record labels upset web openness. [Ars Technica]
19-04-2012: Inventor of the web: the Internet is bigger than the music industry. [BoingBoing]
16-04-2012: Facebook doesn't have to trample on our privacy rights in the name of cybersecurity. [Gizmodo]
16-04-2012: Sergei Brin on the existential crisis of the net: walled gardens + snooping governments. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian] [DailyTech] [Engadget]
13-04-2012: Why Facebook terrifies Google. [ReadWriteWeb]
10-04-2012: MPAA: you can infringe copyright just by embedding a video. [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
09-04-2012: MPAA joins Google, Facebook, EFF in repeat infringer copyright battle. [TorrentFreak]
05-04-2012: First steps in anti-piracy discussion stumble out of the gate. [ReadWriteWeb]
02-04-2012: New copyright center ready to fire on pirates. [cNet]
16-03-2012: RIAA president twirls mustache in anticipation of taking on his role of Internet Witchfinder General. [BoingBoing] [cNet]
15-03-2012: RIAA and ISPs to police your traffic starting 12 July. [Ars Technica]
04-03-2012: Anonymous, decentralised and uncensored file-sharing is booming. [Gizmodo] [TorrentFreak]
23-02-2012: How DMCA takedown notices work. [ReadWriteWeb]
21-02-2012: The MPAA and RIAA should buy The Pirate Bay. [ExtremeTech]
18-02-2012: Either stand with us or with those Internet geeks. [ReadWriteWeb]
17-02-2012: Pirate Bay: the RIAA is delusional and must be stopped. [TorrentFreak]
14-02-2012: The Netherlands looks to take the lead in rational copyright legislation. [Gizmodo]
13-02-2012: Canada's sweeping new, evidence-free electronic spying bill. [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
14-02-2012: Canadian MP: if you oppose warrantless snooping, you "stand with child pornographers". [BoingBoing]
14-02-2012: Canada wants warrantless Internet spying, says critics support child porn. [Ars Technica]
15-02-2012: Involuntary transparency for Canada's spying-bill MP. [BoingBoing]
10-02-2012: Vast hordes of Canadians speak out on proposed copyright legislation -- lend your voice! [BoingBoing] [Michael Geist]
06-02-2012: Petition to uncloack secret copyright treaty. [BoingBoing]
02-02-2012: Obama refuses to respond to MPAA bribery claim petition. [The Register] [ComputerWorld]
01-02-2012: Shoe on the other foot: RIAA wants to scrap anti-piracy OPEN act. [Ars Technica]
30-01-2012: The newest Internet law to worry about (updated: don't worry). [Gizmodo]
29-01-2012: Dutch ISPs refuse to block The Pirate Bay. [TorrentFreak]
28-01-2012: MPAA's number two admits industry "not comfortable" with the Internet. [BoingBoing] [TechDirt]
25-01-2012: New Euro IP law promises artists torpedoes to sink pirates. [The Register]
24-01-2012: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired. [MediaBeat] [HardOCP]
24-01-2012: How 87,000 people taught us about the future of online activism. [TechCrunch]
22-01-2012: Lies, damned lies, and piracy statistics. [BoingBoing] [Ars Technica]
20-01-2012: The week the web changed Washington. [O'Reilly]
20-01-2012: MPAA directly and publicly threatens politicians who aren't corrupt enough to stay bought. [TechDirt]
19-01-2012: Wikipedia: so how do you like censorship? [ReadWriteWeb]
18-01-2012: "Nerd lobby" shows muscle in debate over piracy bills. [WSJ]
18-01-2012: LOLing our way to Internet freedom. [Wired]
18-01-2012: My letter to the Internet. [Huffington Post]
18-01-2012: By the numbers: 103,785. [The White House]
18-01-2012: RIAA reminds us why we hate them with obnoxious smartass tweet. [Gizmodo]
18-01-2012: Ron Paul compaign sues to stop unauthorised web videos. [paidContent]
18-01-2012: Why we've censored Wired. [Wired]
17-01-2012: Don't censor the web. [Google]
17-01-2012: Reeling MPAA declares DNS filtering "off the table". [Ars Technica]
12-01-2012: Author of controversial piracy bill now says 'more study needed'. [WSJ ATD]
12-01-2012: MPAA claims Ars Technica helps thieves. [Ars Technica] [BoingBoing]
06-01-2012: Leaked memo: USA blackmailed Spain into passing brutal, censoring copyright law. [BoingBoing] [The Guardian]
03-01-2012: Belarus bans browsing foreign websites. [BoingBoing] [Washington Post] [Library of Congress]
03-01-2012: No, Belarus is not cut off from the Internet, but new restrictions are still pretty bad. [TechDirt]
03-01-2012: Spain adopts tough new piracy law. [BBC News] [Engadget]
2011 – News / Articles
30-12-2011: Now, more than ever, it's time to pull your domains from GoDaddy. [BoingBoing] [marco.org]
26-12-2011: GoDaddy responds to NameCheap accusations, removes "normal" rate limit block. [TechCrunch]
26-12-2011: NameCheap accuses GoDaddy of delaying domain transfers. [ReadWriteWeb] [Electronista]
26-12-2011: GoDaddy dickheads may be delaying domain transfers on purpose. [Gizmodo]
21-12-2011: You won't believe the RIAA's pathetic excuse for their own rampant pirating. [Gizmodo] [TorrentFreak]
19-12-2011: Unprecedented censorship. [WSJ ATD]
16-12-2011: Dear Congress, it's no longer OK to not know how the Internet works. [Motherboard] [TechDirt] [Information Diet]
20-12-2011: Dear Congress: it's not OK not to know how search engines work, either. [Search Engine Land]
18-11-2011: Anonymous "dimnet" tries to create hedge against DNS censorship. [Ars Technica]
18-11-2011: Apple, Microsoft and the 27 other tech giants who support the awful Internet censorship bill. [Gizmodo]
14-11-2011: Vint Cerf: the government is going overboard in Internet copyright control. [CloudBeat]
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