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Jeff Gould Peerstone Research via Safegov.org 1/31/2014 When it introduced a new privacy policy designed to improve its ability to target users with ads based on data mining of their online activities, Google said the policy didn’t apply to students using Google Apps for Education. But recent court filings by Google’s lawyers in a California […] February 16th, 2014 | Tags: data-mining, emails, Gmail, Google, Google Apps for Education, Microsoft, Office 365 Education, Outlook.com | Category: California, Education, Internet, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
T.C. Sottek The Verge 12/29/2013 According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency’s elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality. The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, […] December 29th, 2013 | Tags: ACLU, Der Spiegel, domestic surveillance, Judge Richard Leon, Judge William H. Pauley, laptop, malware, Microsoft, mobile phones, National Security Agency, Smith v Maryland, Tailored Access Operations (TAO), telephone records | Category: 4th Amendment, Central Intelligence Agency, Computers, FBI, Internet, Right to Privacy, technology | Comments are closed
RT 9/13/2013 The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered to NSA data banks. Brazilian television network Globo News released a report based on classified data divulged […] September 14th, 2013 | Tags: "man in the middle" (MITM), Brooke Donahue, child pornography, Edward Snowden, Eric Eoin Marques, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), Freedom Hosting, Google, government surveillance, hacking, Ireland, malware, Microsoft, National Security Agency, Walid Shoebat, Yahoo! | Category: FBI, Internet, Right to Privacy, technology, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Leaked documents lay bare TPM 2.0 worries John E. Dunn Techworld 22 August 2013 The German Government is now deeply suspicious that the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology built into a growing number of Windows 8 PCs and tablets is creating a gigantic back door for NSA surveillance, leaked documents have suggested. Documents from the […] August 25th, 2013 | Tags: Edward Snowden, James R. Clapper, Lenovo, Microsoft, National Security Agency, surveillance, transparency, Trusted Computing Group (TCG), Trusted Platform Module (TPM), Windows 8 | Category: Computers, Germany, Internet, National Intelligence, technology, United Nations | Comments are closed
Technology companies have to fight for their users, or they’ll eventually lose them. Bruce Schneier The Atlantic 8/12/2013 It turns out that the NSA’s domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying […] August 13th, 2013 | Tags: Edward Snowden, Google, Lavabit, Microsoft, National Security Agency, PRISM, Silent Circle, Silent Mail, Yahoo! | Category: 1st Amendment, Internet, Right to Privacy, technology, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. Declan mcCullagh CNET 7/25/2013 The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in […] July 25th, 2013 | Tags: algorithms, AOL, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, National Security Agency, passwords, salts, Sen. Ron Wyden, Time Warner Cable, Twitter, Verizon, Yahoo! | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Justice, FBI, Internet, Right to Privacy, Social networking websites, technology | Comments are closed
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