The latest Snowden revelation shows Yahoo being heavily targeted yet again — and this time it was bulk collection of images from users’ webcams, apparently for facial recognition purposes. Read more »
The British signals intelligence agency GCHQ used its tapping of the internet’s backbone to monitor visitors to a WikiLeaks site, including Americans, according to a document leaked by Edward Snowden and… Read more »
The European Parliament is finalizing its report on the NSA surveillance program, and the parliament’s Green faction had proposed an amendment that would give leaker Edward Snowden a guarantee of safety… Read more »
Global debates about internet governance are set to heat up in the coming years, so the European Union has set out its standpoint, with true globalization and human rights being non-negotiable… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Golden Frog says Chameleon scrambles VPN metadata, making it harder for firewalls to spot that the traffic is VPN-protected. The protocol is proprietary, though, making its trustworthiness hard to evaluate. 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 »
The independent, international commission has been set up by two thinktanks, as a way of figuring out how the internet should be run in future. Read more »