The first story from Pierre Omidyar-funded The Intercept describes a shift toward relying on signals rather than human intelligence for targeting drone victims, and claims this tactic kills more innocent people. Read more »
A GCHQ presentation shows how the agency infiltrated and launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on chatrooms used by internet activists and hackers. Until now, no western state has been shown to… Read more »
The Chaos Computer Club has filed a criminal complaint against the German government and the presidents of the German secret services over their NSA links, and it wants to call Edward… Read more »
Jean-Jacques Quisquater says the Belgian federal police tipped him off that he had been hacked in an attack related to that on telco Belgacom, which fell victim to GCHQ last year. Read more »
The former deputy director for cyber defense operations at the U.K.’s signals intelligence agency has made the leap to the private sector, heading up a firm with an unusual approach to… Read more »
Though certain details remain frustratingly absent, a CBC News report suggests Canadian spy agency CSEC unlawfully tracked people using free public Wi-Fi in a Canadian airport, and possibly elsewhere, in what… Read more »
With apps requiring more and more permissions — think of your location, contact lists and call log — it’s becoming easier for the intelligence community to gather data from individuals. The… Read more »
The activist coalition Privacy Not Prism has made some headway in its quest to prove that mass surveillance by UK intelligence agencies is illegal. Read more »
Bytes for All claims the likely tapping of its communications through the UK’s Tempora mass interception program violates its rights under European law, because the tapping would have taken place in… Read more »
Around 250 leading academics from around the world have decried the online spying activities of U.S. and European intelligence services in an “Academics Against Mass Surveillance” manifesto, published on Friday. The… Read more »