Microsoft is close to another restructuring that could see several senior managers moved sideways or leaving the company as it reduces its number of business units from eight to four. The restructuring is being prepared by a small group ...
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Two Wikileaks volunteers have revealed that Google released data from their Gmail accounts to the US government under the secret, legally enforced information seizures being made by the Prism security group. Since Prism, and the secret, ...
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Edward Snowden says he leaked information to show the extent to which citizens were spied on in the US. Picture: AP / The Guardian Source: AP The US Justice Department has charged former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden ...
The National Security Agency can retain communications of U.S. citizens or residents potentially indefinitely if those communications are encrypted, according to a newly leaked secret government document. The document describes the ...
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More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
The U.S. Congress should press for privacy protections and more information about surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency, some technology and civil liberties activists said Friday. After recent news leaks about two ...
Google has challenged the US government's gag order on tech firms which have been the focal point of US security investigations. The search giant wants the approval for greater transparency from the US courts, stating that it believes it ...
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The National Security Agency is creating new processes aimed at making it harder for systems administrators to misuse privileged access to agency systems, NSA officials told the U.S. House Intelligence Committee Tuesday. NSA director ...
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Google has asked the court overseeing terrorism-related surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency to allow the company to publish information on the number of surveillance requests it receives. The Internet company, in a ...
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Apple has revealed that it received 5,000 US government requests for customer data between 1 December 2012 and 31 May 2013, making it one of the most scrutinised tech companies by the NSA-run surveillance group last week revealed to be ...
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Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
At least two U.S. mobile operators, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless, reportedly do not participate directly in the U.S. National Security Agency's call metadata collection program because of their partial ownership by foreign ...
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European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in ...
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting customers of Verizon Communications. The ACLU's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District ...
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Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government's massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were concerned about privacy violations. In a survey conducted just days before reports surfaced about ...
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