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China Loaded 700 Million Android Devices with Spyware
According to a FOX Business Network report Chinese manufacturers loaded over 700 million Android devices with spyware.
A software from a Chinese company was found pre-installed in an estimated 700 million Android devices. Pre-installed, meaning it was already on the phone when you bought it.
The spyware was loaded on phones, TV, cars, etc.
The spyware allowed Chinese officials to listen to your phone...
Israel wiretapped Kerry's calls during peace talks
Israeli agents were eavesdropping on US Secretary of State John Kerry as he was mediating last year’s futile Middle East peace talks, German magazine Der Spiegel has revealed.
Kerry made reviving diplomatic ties between Israel and the Palestinian Authority after a three-year freeze a central priority in the early months of his term as secretary of state. In June 2013, direct talks started, only...
German chancellor slams US, UK over spying
Countries spying on their allies sow distrust that could result in less, rather than more security, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned. She particularly referred to the surveillance and spying activities by the US and the UK.
“But does that make it right for our closest allies, like the United States or Britain, to access all imaginable data – arguing that it helps their own security...
Brazil president censures 'NSA spying on Merkel'
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has censured alleged spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone communications.
“Nobody, no democratic nation, will permit this violation of sovereignty and human and civil rights,” Rousseff said on Thursday, adding, “There will be a growing reaction” from...
Israel intercepted millions of French calls
A leaked US intelligence document has revealed that Israel is behind the hacking of millions of phone calls and messages in France.
According to a report by Le Monde on Friday Israeli agents is behind a cyber attack against the communications networks of the Elysee Palace, intercepting more than 70 million calls and text messages a month.
France had initially accused the US of hacking into former...
US spied on phone calls of 35 world leaders
A new document by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that the United States has monitored the telephone conversations of 35 world leaders.
The Guardian reported on Thursday that officials from the White House, the US Department of Defense, and the State Department gave the world leaders’ numbers to the National Security Agency.
One unnamed American official handed over 200 numbers, including...
FISA Court: NSA can keep spying on phone calls
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the US has ruled that the National Security Agency can continue its secret collection of phone records of all American citizens.
The secret court ruling was announced late Friday by the Office of James Clapper who is the Director of National Intelligence.
“DNI Clapper has decided to declassify and disclose publicly that the government filed an application...
NSA agent abused spying tools to intercept phone calls
A US National Security Agency employee has abused the US government’s spying tools in order to intercept phone calls of nine foreign women.
According to internal files of the US spying agency, the NSA agent intercepted the calls from 1998 to 2003 and twice collected communications of an American without ever being noticed by his managers.
The illegal abuse of the NSA’s spying tools was disclosed...
World will no longer have confidence in US: Former CIA chief
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden
Former CIA director Michael Hayden said other countries will no longer have confidence in the United States after Edward Snowden’s revelations about the US government’s global surveillance programs.
In an interview with CNN on Friday, Hayden said other intelligence services around the world will no longer “have confidence in the United States that we’re...
Australia’s largest telco stored data for FBI
Telstra, Australia’s largest phone company, stored emails and phone calls to be handed over to US intelligence upon request, according to an agreement it signed in 2001 with the FBI and US Department of Justice.
The copy of the 12-year-old agreement, which was posted online on Friday by news website Crikey, is in confirmation of this week’s earlier leak by Edward Snowden, revealing that large...
NSA can obtain 1 billion cell phone calls a day, store them and listen
The NSA has a “brand new” technology that enables one billion cell phone calls a day to be redirected into its data hoards and stored, according to the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, who said that a new leak of Snowden’s documents was ‘coming soon.’
Calling it part of a “globalized system to destroy all privacy,” and the enduring creation of a climate of fear, Greenwald outlined the...
Supreme Court to review legality of warrantless wiretapping of Americans
Phone calls to Prague? Emails to Ecuador? The United States government can currently sift through any international communication that crosses outside of American territory, but all that might soon change.
The US Supreme Court decided on Monday this week that they will consider a case that challenges the powers for the federal government established in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a legislation...