Whisper’s CEO says the anonymous social network has put members of its editorial team on leave while it investigates claims made by the Guardian, but maintains that the newspaper’s report was… Read more »
According to a massive cache of emails, chat conversations and other information leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the agency captured the private data of tens of thousands of ordinary… Read more »
Venture capitalist and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen told CNBC that Edward Snowden is the textbook definition of a traitor, and argued that mass surveillance is what the NSA is supposed to… Read more »
Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argues that we aren’t living in either Orwell’s 1984 or Bentham’s Panopticon, and that the same tools that allow governments and companies to surveil us — often with… Read more »
The Turkish parliament has passed draconian new amendments to its internet law, which will allow the authorities to block content at the URL level without a court order, something critics of… Read more »
There was probably more than a little gloating when former NSA chief Michael Hayden found a fellow passenger on his Amtrak train live-tweeting his off-the-record interviews with journalists Read more »
Journalist and Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown is accused of trafficking in stolen credit-card numbers and could face years in prison for posting a link in an Internet Relay Chat channel aimed… Read more »
According to the Wall Street Journal, the NSA’s surveillance program allows it to tap into more data than it has previously admitted — up to 75 percent of all internet traffic… Read more »
The legal discussion forum Groklaw is the latest web service to shut down out of concern over the NSA’s surveillance program — and the latest sign of how much we are… Read more »
The detention of a journalist’s partner and seizure of his electronics, combined with the British government’s threats towards the Guardian for its reporting, make the case that we need something like… Read more »