Neowin News Feed for: Snooping

Huawei under suspicion of tracking and spying on visitors at its MWC 2023 booth

Anushe Fawaz — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:48:01 +0000

According to reports, Huawei was allegedly tracking visitors at its booth during the MWC 2023 event. Visitors found the security badges given by the company rather suspicious on further investigation. Read more...

UK home secretary says she supports encryption… but also wants firms to scan your messages

Paul Hill — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:38:01 +0000

Priti Patel, the UK home secretary, has pretty much confirmed that the Online Safety Bill will kill end-to-end encryption in messaging apps like WhatsApp as companies are forced to scan messages. Read more...

Apple could share your iMessage contacts with authorities, if demanded

Shreyas Gandhe — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:58:01 +0000

Although Apple mentions that iMessage is secure from snooping, the claim might not be completely true, as a report has revealed that the company could share a user's contacts with authorities. Read more...

NSA harvests millions of images daily to build new facial recognition system

James Walker — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:00:00 +0000

Edward Snowden has revealed documents showing that the NSA actively collects millions of images of the faces of citizens each day to be used in a new facial recognition system to identify criminals. Read more...

WikiLeaks names Afghanistan as being targeted by NSA MYSTIC phone-tapping

James Walker — Sat, 24 May 2014 06:00:00 +0000

Whistle-blower Julian Assange of WikiLeaks has revealed Afghanistan to be the second nation to have all of its phone calls made from mobiles monitored, stored and archived by the NSA's MYSTIC program. Read more...

Microsoft: NSA and GCHQ are capable of monitoring 'secure' browsing using Tor

James Walker — Thu, 15 May 2014 18:26:50 +0000

A Microsoft professional has warned that the Tor browsing network that aims to provide users with a totally secure browsing experience is no longer impenetrable by the NSA or GCHQ. Read more...

Google no longer records Wi-Fi information

Byron Hinson — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:30:14 +0000

Google has finally admitted that they will no longer use their Street View cars to snap up details of users' wi-fi networks that it passes along the way. Google had stated that they only used... Read more...

Google cleared of wifi snooping charges in the UK

Brandon Boyce — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:19:53 +0000

According to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO), Google did not collect any personal details when collecting data from wifi networks for their location based services. Google was cleared of the charges after the ICO... Read more...

Firefox popup exploit allows file snooping

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:04:53 +0000

A vulnerability in Firefox's popup blocker software creates a means to read files from affected systems, security researchers warn. The flaw, coupled with some tricksy coding, establishes a mechanism for hackers to read user-accessible files... Read more...

US snooping plan blocked

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:56:32 +0000

A controversial computer surveillance project that would comb through the personal records of Americans in the search for suspected terrorists has suffered a severe setback. The US Senate has voted to cut... Read more...

Diverse range of services to be given snooping rights in the UK

Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:22:25 +0000

Following from last weeks news that there would be amendments to bills passed through the UK parliament to allow MI5 to snoop internet traffic, now it has been revealed that there will be more changes... Read more...