Latest set of documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden throws light on how spooks over at NSA and GCHQ infiltrated the virtual worlds of online games like World of Warcraft and Second…
Tag: Surveillance
Tech behemoths urge President Obama to limit government surveillance
Technology giants including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple, AOL and Yahoo have come together and issued an open letter to US President Barack Obama and the Congress to bring in reforms…
FSF: Microsoft’s security promises are meaningless
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has criticized Microsoft’s recent announcement that Redmond was going to reinforce encryption and increase legal transparency to tackle government snooping. Microsoft likened Government snooping to ‘advanced persistent…
Microsoft to reinforce encryption, increase transparency to tackle government snooping
Microsoft general counsel has likened government snooping efforts to ‘advanced persistent threats’ and has revealed that the company will be encrypting customer data while in transit between its data centres. Highlighting Microsoft…
European Commission drafts steps to restore faith in EU-US data flows
The European Commission has outlined draft steps that it believes will pave the way for restoring faith in EU-US data flows following revelations about NSA spying activities under its PRISM programme. European…
Microsoft to beef up encryption to counter NSA surveillance
Microsoft is looking to revamp its internet traffic encryption system as it believes that its global communications system links have been breached by the National Security Agency, reported the Washington Post. Per…
Microsoft announces message encryption for Office 365
Microsoft has announced its plans of automatically encrypting emails on its Office 365 service by early 2014 through its new feature which it calls Office 365 Message Encryption. Under this new feature…
Eric Schmidt: Global internet censorship to end within a decade
Addressing audience at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday, Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman, made a bold prediction saying that global internet censorship will within a decade. In his lecture, Schmidt said that…
NSA secretly snooped on Yahoo, Google data centres claims new report
The National Security Agency (NSA) is secretly keeping an eye on Yahoo and Google’s data centers, claims Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor. The security agency’s project to intercept the communication and data…
Lavabit to reopen briefly
Lavabit, one of the secure email services which shuttered following Snowden revelations, is going to reopen its services briefly allowing users to download their emails. Through a brief message, Lavabit founder Ladar…
EFF quits Global Network Initiative citing NSA meddling, surveillance issues
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has withdrew its membership from the Global Network Initiative claiming that it has no confidence in other members of the initiative that they can speak about privacy,…
US Court rejects Google, Microsoft, Yahoo motion to disclose national security requests
US court has rejected the motion for declaratory judgment filed by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn. Google and other companies asked for permission from the US Government and FBI to publish…