Neowin News Feed for: Surveillance

NSA whistleblower taking part in a live Q&A [Update]

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:10:20 +0100

The man behind the recent leak of information of the NSA's large-scale surveillance program will be taking part in a live question-and-answer session at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Read more...

PIPA creator launches, abandons, effort to expand email surveillance

Tyler Holman — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:03:18 +0000

PIPA co-author Patrick Leahy has apparently rewritten an amendment previously meant to protect email privacy to make warrantless access easier, then disowned the amendment via Twitter. Read more...

Google: Government surveillance inquiries 'spiking'

Tyler Holman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:31:13 +0000

Google's twice-yearly Transparency Report is out, and this time there isn't much good news to go around: worldwide, government inquiries and takedown requests are spiking at unprecedented levels. Read more...

Judge orders the FBI to come clean on internet surveillance

Tyler Holman — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:43:13 +0000

A US District Judge has ordered the FBI to come clean on their efforts to access encrypted information and force manufacturers to build backdoors into their products, following a lawsuit from the EFF. Read more...

UK schools discover new level of creepiness with toilet cameras

Tyler Holman — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:58:03 +0100

UK schools have discovered a new level of creepiness by installing cameras (as many as one for every 5 students) in 'private' areas, like toilets. Unsurprisingly, privacy advocates are up in arms. Read more...

WikiLeaks hit by sustained DDoS over surveillance leaks

Tyler Holman — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:18:21 +0100

WikiLeaks has been facing a sustained DDoS attack for over 5 days, with a new patriotic hacker group taking credit, but there could be more to the story (it involves surveillance and the government). Read more...

The UK wants ISPs to store all of their traffic data

Tyler Holman — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:16:57 +0100

What if every website you loaded, movie you streamed, song you pirated, and email you sent was decrypted and stored for a year by your ISP? Scary? It's exactly what the UK is hoping to do. Read more...

Homeland Security wants to hack your console

Tyler Holman — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:13:03 +0100

The US Navy and DHS have tapped a computer forensics company to develop new methods of hacking gaming consoles and establishing a collection of data from second hand devices to use as a base. Read more...

The NSA's new spy center will see everything

Tyler Holman — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:08:17 +0000

Imagine a heavily guarded supercomputer deep in the desert, keeping tabs on everything that passes through the net, all the while working to break the encryption. Sound like bad Sci-Fi? It's not. Read more...

"Bugged" Xbox 360 game led to teenage killer's arrest

Denis Wong — Sat, 07 May 2011 09:02:11 +0100

On September 1, 2009, a 19-year-old woman from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada was the victim of a random shooting. Charlotte Dawn Jolly was shot and killed on the streets of Saskatoon while she was out celebrating... Read more...

US Has Become "Endemic Surveillance Society"

Sagittarius — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:48:22 +0000

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In a report released by Privacy International, a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations, the United States has dropped from an "extensive surveillance... Read more...

Indonesia to tighten Internet surveillance

Slimy — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:37:47 +0000

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Indonesia plans to tackle Internet crime by tightening the supervision of web surfers. "The aim is to minimise the misuse of the Internet, including for criminal activities," said Gatot Dewa Broto, a spokesman for the... Read more...

FBI Drops Web Surveillance System

dbfriends — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:40:49 +0000

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A computer system being produced by the FBI to read e-mails and other online communications has been dropped. Feds are instead turning to commercial software to eavesdrop on traffic during investigations into suspected criminals, terrorists... Read more...

EU online surveillance debate intensifies

configure — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:10:57 +0000

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Efforts to set common European Union rules on data collection by telecommunications companies and ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are intensifying, reigniting debate about civil liberties and causing some industry and political officials to question how... Read more...

UK surveillance laws may be illegal

me101 — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:33:12 +0100

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The United Kingdom's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which gives U.K. law enforcement agencies access to consumers' mobile phone and Internet data, may be illegal, according to UK information commissioner Elizabeth France. ... Read more...