NSA
The NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden seem to be endless, as a new report from Der Spiegel shows that the National Security Agency spied on the internal communications of Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera.
The details for the $52.6 billion budget for covert action, surveillance, intelligence and counterintelligence were leaked by Edward Snowden
In the wake of NSA agent Edward Snowden's revelations that government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of any citizen without a warrant, private internet customers are increasingly turning to Tor, an anonymity network that allows people to securely browse without fear of being hacked.
If you were freaked out by recent reports that the NSA had a program to track users on the internet, you will probably not like to know this: According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, the FBI has hacking tools that can spy on suspects using their smartphone and laptop microphones, among many other tools.
A new report by The Guardian exposes the latest National Security Agency program which the media outlet claims grants intelligence analysts access to spy on Americans from a computer terminal.
A large number of citizens and companies in Brazil had their telephone and internet messages monitored by the U.S. National Security Agency, according to documents released on Sunday by brazilian newspaper O Globo.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro confirmed today that his country has received a formal asylum request from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been at the transit area of the Moscow airport since June 23.
In a blog post late Monday, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer announced the number of requests for user data that the U.S. has made of the company in a six-month period, making Yahoo! the fourth major technology company to do so in the last week or so, after Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. Yahoo!'s admission was shorter and less detailed than some of the others and represented the highest count of United States government data requests in a six-month period divulged so far.
Following the lead of Microsoft and Facebook, on Monday, Apple Inc. revealed how much data on its customers the United States Government has asked for in recent months. Apple is one of the many tech companies that have been named as cooperating with the government in the NSA Internet surveillance program, called PRISM.
