Over the past year and a half, I’ve written many pieces on the surveillance state and how we are one step away from the inculcation of technological “omniscience” pertaining to control. The objective is not simply “control,” as they have already obtained that for the most part: limiting […]
EarthNow is a new company looking to provide satellite imagery and live video in virtually real-time. Its unsettling pitch describes a network of satellites that can see any corner of the globe and provide live video with a latency of about a second. And a look at the […]
There’s a motto at Google: “Don’t be evil.” Today, more than 3,000 Google employees fear their company is on the verge of breaching that code by helping the U.S. military improve its spy drone software. According to The New York Times, some 3,100 Google employees, “including dozens of senior engineers,” […]
The British government has been accused or ramping up its rhetoric on security issues as the Prime Minister prepares to introduce a new surveillance law. The Sunday Times has reported that Britain has been forced to pull out MI6 agents from live operations in “hostile countries” after Russia and […]
Australia is one of the most aggressive countries in the world in terms of mass surveillance and its techniques could be the subject of future leaks, journalist Glenn Greenwald, who first reported on the Edward Snowden revelations for the Guardian, has said. Greenwald, who now works for The Intercept, […]
The US National Security Agency (NSA) and its allies tried to hijack Google and Samsung app stores via software vulnerabilities to launch a massive data harvest campaign putting millions of users at risk, new Snowden revelations show. The NSA, assisted by spy agencies of the Five Eyes alliance, comprising […]
http://www.newsweek.com/obama-administration-announces-reforms-data-collection-rules-304153 The Obama administration announced new rules governing data collection Tuesday—a move that comes nearly two years after former NSA analyst Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. government was conducting mass surveillance on Americans and foreigners and storing the gathered information without their knowledge. The rules were detailed in […]
