The Snowden leaks: A timeline
A look back at the security fallout following the NSA spying disclosures that began a year ago after Edward Snowden fled the U.S.
Sharon Machlis, Jaikumar Vijayan | 05 Jun | Read more
A look back at the security fallout following the NSA spying disclosures that began a year ago after Edward Snowden fled the U.S.
Sharon Machlis, Jaikumar Vijayan | 05 Jun | Read more
Several tech companies have revamped privacy and transparency policies since revelations in leaked National Security Agency (NSA) documents showed that the U.S. was secretly collecting customer data from Internet Service Providers, telecommunications companies and others.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 May | Read more
Since Al Jazeera America posted copies of emails between Google executives and National Security Agency officials on Tuesday, online criticism of the the Internet firm has spread quickly.
Mike Bucken | 08 May | Read more
Two sets of emails obtained by Al Jazeera America under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that Google's cooperation with the National Security Agency may have been less coerced than the company has let on.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 07 May | Read more
Still responding to the National Security Agency surveillance revelations, Google is reportedly preparing to help users beef up Gmail security with end-to-end encryption. The search giant is working on a way to make Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption easier to use for Gmail fans, according to a report by Venture Beat.
President Barack Obama's plan to stop the National Security Agency's bulk collection and storage of telephone records is a good first step that needs to go much further to protect Americans' privacy rights, advocates say.
Antone Gonsalves | 29 Mar | Read more
Chinese networking giant Huawei hit out at the US National Security Agency (NSA) this weekend following claims that the organisation hacked into its email servers five years ago.
In the wake of revelations exposed in classified National Security Agency documents leaked to reporters by Edward Snowden, Facebook must show its users that their data is safe from the prying eyes of government spies.
Mike Bucken | 19 Mar | Read more
As the world still reels over reports of U.S. government surveillance of privately owned smartphones, a spyware industry is growing that's focused on helping employers monitor the ways smartphones and tablets are used by their workers. Parents are also interested in the service to track their children's smartphone use.
Matt Hamblen | 13 Mar | Read more
The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly been working for the past several years on expanding its ability to infect computers with surveillance malware and creating a command-and-control infrastructure capable of managing millions of compromised systems at a time.
Lucian Constantin | 12 Mar | Read more
Edward Snowden has a piece of advice for you, the average American Internet user: Employ whatever encryption tools you have at your disposal to make the National Security Agency's job a little bit harder.
Caitlin McGarry | 10 Mar | Read more
Julian Assange doesn't use the blustering rhetoric you might expect from the founder of the activist publishing group WikiLeaks. Assange is responsible for leaking documents that have changed America's political landscape-- State Department cables and Iraq War logs--yet to a South by Southwest audience on Saturday, he spoke quietly and matter-of-factly even when uttering the most inflammatory statements.
Caitlin McGarry | 09 Mar | Read more
Austin, Texas is in full-on party mode as South by Southwest kicks off Friday, but the normally lighthearted Interactive portion of the festival--best known for turning Twitter and Foursquare into stars--is taking a serious turn this year by addressing the National Security Agency's PRISM program head-on.
Caitlin McGarry | 07 Mar | Read more
Another day, another revelation about intelligence agencies' ability to peer into your private life: The Guardian reported that GCHQ, Britain's surveillance agency, captured stills from Yahoo webcam chats between 2008 and 2010.
Caitlin McGarry | 27 Feb | Read more
Two recently-discovered flaws in Apple iOS and Mac OS X have security experts openly asking whether the software vulnerabilities represent backdoors inserted for purposes of cyber-espionage. There's no clear answer so far, but it just shows that anxiety about state-sponsored surveillance is running high.
Ellen Messmer | 26 Feb | Read more