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35% surge in warrant requests of Alexa recordings and other Amazon data
As Amazon collects more data, government requests also increase.
Edward Snowden book to be published in September
The whistleblower and privacy campaigner has written a memoir.
Edward Snowden: New tech systems need to be created to protect rights of internet users
Snowden was the keynote speaker at Open Rights Group’s OrgCon 2019.
UK police are still investigating journalists over the Edward Snowden case from 2013
UK’s National Union of Journalists criticized it by saying that reporting about unlawful surveillance was in the public interest.
George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” is 70 years old today and its message is still resonating around the world
The themes of 1984 are perhaps more prominent today than they were when it was published.
Report reveals that some of the code that’s holding Baltimore City hostage has origins at the NSA
Once again, it’s NSA code that got into the wrong hands that’s causing a lot of trouble.
The EU has quietly restarted its push towards mass data retention
The EU is trying to find away around the ruling that mass data retention is illegal.
NSA warrantless searches of the private data of US citizens is at an all time high
Warrantless searches of phone calls, chat logs, emails and other data collected from Americans increased by 28 percent.
The best encrypted and private alternatives to Dropbox
There’s a movement towards storing your data privately and not putting all of your precious files on someone else’s server without encrypting them first.