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Encryption and private keys are the name of the game.
"The problem is that focusing on one or both of these approaches distracts from the much-needed political reform and societal pushback necessary to dig up a surveillance state at its root."
Do we release records to catch the Bad Guy?
CreepyDOL follows you around town, vacuums up wireless digital crumbs.
Smartphone-monitoring bins in London track places of work, past behavior, and more.
How the NSA went from off-the-shelf to a homegrown "Google for packets."
"Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to carry a tracking device. Such a law would immediately be found unconstitutional. Yet we all carry mobile phones."
A university is looking at analysing emails from students to staff to detect negative comments. Is this pastoral care, or 'scary ethics'?
• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network, and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted, writes John Naughton
Even the best laws will not lead to a safer internet. We need a sharper picture of the information apocalypse that awaits us in a world where personal data is traded to avert the catastrophy.
Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora. Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical! We all have a right to privacy, which you can exercise today by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services.
The NSA documents Edward Snowden leaked have sparked a debate within the US about surveillance. While Americans understood that the US government was likely intercepting telephone and social media data from terrorism suspects, it’s been an uncomfortable discovery that the US collected massive sets of email and telephone data from Americans and non-Americans who aren’t… Read More »Me and my metadata – thoughts on online surveillance
Do Not Track (DNT) is a way to keep users’ online behavior from being followed across the Internet by behavioral advertisers, analytics companies, and social media sites. It combines both technology