Facebook Sued Over Alleged Scanning of Private Messages
By Karen Gullo (Bloomberg) Facebook Inc. (FB) was sued over allegations it systematically intercepts its users private messages on the social network and profits by sharing the data with [...]
Facebook monitors your words even before you post
Slate Facebook wants to know why you didn’t publish that status update you started writing. A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook: Do you think that facebook tracks the stuff [...]
Privacy Advocacy Groups launch Global Action Against Mass Surveillance
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Access and Privacy International, have launched a new campaign centered around 13 policies they say governments [...]
Alleged Silk Road Founder Denied Bail
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze On Thursday a magistrate judge denied bail for Ross Ulbricht, the California man accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts of the Silk Road marketplace. The [...]
NSA, GCHQ ‘planted agents’ into World of Warcraft, Second Life to spy on gamers
RT The NSA and the UK’s GCHQ spying agencies have collected players’ charts and deployed real-life agents into online World of Warcraft and Second Life games, a new leak by whistleblower Edward [...]
WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
Originally published in July 2013 Wired On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy [...]
Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years
Dissident Voices On November 15, 28-year-old political activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release at the Federal District Court for the [...]
The Internet Prepares for the Silk Road 2.0
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze Just weeks after the closing of the original Silk Road, a new, improved version of the anonymous, online marketplace has appeared. The Silk Road 2.0 appeared [...]
Govt. spends 82K studying using Twitter For ‘Depression Surveillance’
BY: Elizabeth Harrington (Washington Free Beacon) The federal government is studying how to use Twitter for surveillance on depressed people. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) began [...]
Brazil Announces Secure Email to Counter U.S. Spying
AFP – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Sunday that her government was creating a secure email system to try and shield official communications from spying by the United States [...]
