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Yahoo wins lawsuit to declassify docs proving resistance to PRISM
Search engine Yahoo has won a court case to release NSA records and potentially prove it resisted handing over customer data to US authorities. The ruling could clear Yahoo’s name following allegations it collaborated with the NSA to spy on citizens.
The US Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Court ruled that data, pertaining to a 2008 order for Yahoo to hand over customer information to US authorities,...
NSA controls global Internet traffic via private fiber-optic cables
Deals brokered between federal agents and foreign corporations have allowed the United States government to easily intercept and interpret a vast swath of communication data sent around the world, new documents reveal.
In a National Security Agency slideshow obtained by The Washington Post and attributed to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, the US government encouraged analysts to tap into an array of underwater,...
French secret services spy on citizens just like PRISM
The logo of France’s Directorate-General for External Security
France’s secret services illegally have been spying on the citizens by monitoring their telephone and internet communications as well as internet searches, a report says.
On Thursday, French daily Le Monde reported that the country’s security services had stored the data from communications on a supercomputer at the headquarters of...
France urges EU-US trade talks delayed over US spying allegations
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden shown in photo on the paper.
France has urged the European Union to postpone talks with the United States on a major free trade agreement due to the recent allegations about US spying on EU offices.
The EU-US trade talks are set to begin in Washington on July 8, but the revelations of US spying on European diplomatic missions have cast them...
Ecuador reveals details on London Embassy surveillance
An image of the hidden microphone used to bug an office in Ecuador’s London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been living for over a year, was revealed by Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino during a press conference Wednesday.
Patino told reporters the recording device was found beneath a desk in the office belonging to Ana Alban, the Ecuadorean Ambassador to the United Kingdom, according...
Kim Dotcom lashes out at New Zealand surveillance bill
Tensions between Kim Dotcom and Prime Minister John Key were raised as the pair sparred at a parliamentary committee hearing on the government’s proposed surveillance law, with Dotcom voicing his opposition to the controversial legislation.
The New Zealand government has proposed a change in the law to allow the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCJB) to provide support to the New Zealand...
Germany to charge UK, US over spying
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) attends a meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron
Germany Federal Prosecutor’s Office says it is preparing to bring charges against US and British intelligence agencies over large-scale spying operations on EU offices, a new report says.
The British daily The Independent reported on Sunday that Germany’s Office of the Federal Prosecutor is preparing...
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...
US asks Moscow to 'look at all options available' to expel Snowden
Washington says it expects the Russian government to ‘look at all options available’ to expel Edward Snowden to the US to face espionage charges. That’s after the White House expressed ‘disappointment’ China and Hong Kong didn’t detain the NSA leaker.
“We expect the Russian government to look at all options available to expel Mr. Snowden back to the U.S. to...
Yahoo! admits giving over 13,000 user data to US spy agencies
Major US internet corporation Yahoo has announced that American law enforcement agencies had made between 12,000 and 13,000 demands for user data over past six months, in the latest case of tech firms admitting to their involvement in the massive US electronic spying bid.
In an effort to restore confidence in its users after revelations of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) PRISM electronic surveillance...
Bilderbergers talk “big data”
The 2013 meeting of the Bilderberg Group is currently underway, with the usual clampdown on media coverage, but it appears that “big data” is one of the main topics on the agenda.
Big data refers to the massive amounts of information that are currently being gathered through the use of modern technology.
The Bilderberg Group mostly uses big data to analyze global megatrends and the information...
Edward Snowden: Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped
The threat of imprisonment or murder will not stop the truth from coming out, Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who blew the lid on the massive National Security Agency surveillance program, told the Guardian in a live Q&A.
The 29-year-old former NSA contractor in conjunction with Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian journalist who broke the story on the NSA’s two controversial data-collection programs...
US spied on Russian President Medvedev at G20 summit - NSA leaks
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev holds a press briefing in London on April 2, 2009 after a day of talks at the G-20 summit
As Britain readies to host the G8 summit, the documents uncovered by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that back in 2009 US spies intercepted top-secret communication of then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, during his visit to London.
The shocking news has been...
Microsoft, Facebook release stats to reassure users on NSA surveillance
Following whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks of National Security Agency documents pointing to mass online surveillance, both Facebook and Microsoft have released details on the number of legal orders made to them by the NSA.
Only a few days after revelations of the surveillance program known as PRISM, which alleged major companies such as the social networking giant Facebook and software maker...
EU calls on US to account over spy scandal
The European Commission has called on US Attorney General Eric Holder to account for the country’s recent spying revelations that has also targeted the Europeans, a report says.
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said on Tuesday that it demands the United States to provide assurances that EU citizens and companies have received the same fundamental respect and rights as US residents when it...