The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been transformed into a domestic intelligence agency and a threat to American liberty in the years since September 11, 2001. That’s the conclusion of one of the nation’s most respected legal advocacy groups, the ...
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iPhone 5s Fingerprint Feature Hacked 3 Days After Release
Apple’s latest security feature isn’t that secure. A cadre of German hackers called the Chaos Computer Club is claiming they were able to outwit the fingerprint security feature on the iPhone 5s less than three days after it went on ...
Read More »Hezbollah Takes Over Phone Network And Spies On Christians In Lebanon
The situation in Lebanon is getting worse: the Iranian-backed Shiite organization Hezbollah is being accused of eavesdropping on the communications of Christians. The political party that represents Christians in the Lebanese parliament is charging that Hezbollah has taken over the ...
Read More »Black Boxes In All Cars: Government Mandate Raises Privacy Concerns
You’re probably familiar with the airplane black box, but are you familiar with the automobile black box? The black box is also known as the event data recorder, or EDR for short. The device is about the size of a ...
Read More »Brazil Turns On US Because Of NSA Spying
The National Security Agency’s surveillance programs have poisoned the relationship between the United States and Brazil. Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is so angry about NSA spying that she wants her country to create its own Internet that’s independent of the ...
Read More »Obama Overturned Bush To Allow NSA Warrantless Spying
The Obama administration went out of its way to get restrictions on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs removed in 2011, allowing it to search Americans’ communications without a warrant, according to a new report. The restrictions had been imposed ...
Read More »Yahoo CEO: We’ll Go To Prison If We Don’t Obey NSA
The National Security Agency threatened to label technology executives traitors and send them to prison if they did not collaborate with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has told reporters. Releasing any data about the surveillance programs would have ...
Read More »NSA Cracks Encryption Codes, Can Read Email, Banking, Medical Records
The National Security Agency and its ally, the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have used advanced hacking techniques to crack most encryption software — meaning the two agencies can read encrypted messages on the Internet, even email, banking and medical ...
Read More »‘Moving Wiretap’: California Considering Electronic License Plates
Electronic license plates may sound like something out of an old Jetson’s cartoon, but they soon could be mandatory on a car in your very own garage. California will most likely be the first state to use electronic license plates ...
Read More »Driver’s License Chips Soon Will Allow Government To Track You
Some state governments are adding a new technology called radio frequency identification chips (also known as RFIDs) to driver’s licenses that will make it easy – critics say — for state officials to track citizens. The technology is not new; ...
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