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Tech Giants' NSA Deal Leaves Smaller Companies Such as Start-Ups with Greater Restrictions

Feb 7, 2014

Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo A group of U.S. technology giants has struck a deal with the Obama administration that allows the companies to disclose more details on customer data turned over to government agencies such as the National ...

Tags: NBA, FISA, i2Coalition, PC World

320, 000 Us Data Queries in 2013 Is Revealed by Verizon

Jan 22, 2014

Verizon on Wednesday became the first major US telecom carrier to release a "transparency report," and said it received 320,000 data queries last year in the United States alone. Verizon also said it received between 1,000 and 2,000 ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics

Eight Top Tech Companies in The U.S. Have Asked Governments Around The World

Dec 10, 2013

Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo and Microsoft said Monday ...

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Yahoo Is Expanding Its Efforts to Protect Its Users's Online Activities From Prying Eyes

Nov 22, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world. ...

Tags: Yahoo, Encrypt, Users'Personal Data

Edward Snowden's Disclosures About NSA Collection of Massive Amounts of Personal Data

Nov 17, 2013

Congressional lawmakers held hearings this week to determine what, if any, changes can be made to U.S. government surveillance programs, with Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) calling for increased transparency into federal data collection ...

Tags: Computer Products, software

Lavabit and Silent Circle Have Formed a Partnership They Call The Dark Mail Alliance

Nov 5, 2013

Secure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle have formed a partnership they call the Dark Mail Alliance, with the intention of creating a secure email service that can thwart government surveillance. According to security news site ...

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US Needs to Speed up The Process of Getting Cyber Security Legislation in Place

Oct 12, 2013

The chief of US spy organisation, the National Security Agency (NSA), Keith Alexander, believes that the US government needs to speed up the process of getting cyber security legislation in place in order to defend the US from attacks. ...

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The Global Network Initiative Has Made The Request to The 21 Governments

Sep 20, 2013

Countries that have pledged to support Internet freedom should allow technology vendors to report the number of electronic surveillance requests they receive, a tech advocacy group said Thursday. The Global Network Initiative, whose ...

Tags: Computer Products, software

Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer Have Both Commented on The NSA Prism Revelations

Sep 13, 2013

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Yahoo counterpart Marissa Mayer have both commented on the NSA Prism revelations, insisting that both web firms did as much as they could to resist governmental demands to reveal personal data of users. ...

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Technology Legal News Website Groklaw Is Shutting Down

Aug 26, 2013

Technology legal news website Groklaw is shutting down due to concerns over the continued availability of secure email in the wake of revelations about U.S. government surveillance.? "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using ...

Tags: Computer Products, Technology legal

NSA Was Acquiring Thousands of Digital Communications From Americans

Aug 22, 2013

The National Security Agency was acquiring thousands of digital communications from Americans as of 2011, according to a declassified document from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The glimpse of the NSA's surveillance on ...

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Internet Surveillance by The National Security Agency Has Shifted Companies' Priorities

Aug 19, 2013

Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked to the media by ex-contractor Edward Snowden, has shifted companies' priorities when sizing up cloud services providers in and outside the U.S., experts say. The economic ...

Tags: Cloud, Computer Products

Some Level of Government Surveillance Is 'Essential'

Aug 16, 2013

Some level of government surveillance is “essential” if the nation is to minimize the incidence of terrorist strikes like the Boston Marathon bombing, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. In a rare interview with CBS This ...

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US Justice Department Charged Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden

Jun 22, 2013

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 ...

Tags: Edward Snowden, Espionage, NSA Surveillance Case

DuckDuckGo Achieved a New Benchmark of Three Million Direct Searches in a Single Day

Jun 19, 2013

Search engine DuckDuckGo, which allows users to search the web anonymously – crowdsourcing its results from other sites such as Wikipedia – has achieved a new benchmark of three million direct searches in a single day. The ...

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