Australian Attorney General says that public scrutiny of spying bill would...
The Australian government is following the UK, US and Canadian governments' examples and establishing a secretive, no-holds-barred snooping regime. The "data retention" bill that's been prepared by...
View ArticleCISPA: Congress wants to create unlimited Internet spying powers - KILL THIS...
Rep. Rogers says #CISPA opponents are probably 14-year-olds in a basement. Tell him how wrong he is by tweeting to @repmikerogers.— EFF (@EFF) April 16, 2013 CISPA is the latest Congressional proposal...
View ArticleUK ISPs betray customers, collaborate on government surveillance
Britain's Communications Data Bill -- AKA the Snooper's Charter -- would effectively eliminate private communications in the UK, giving government and the police the power to spy on virtually...
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UK border cops can seize and retain all your data without suspicion or charge
Tim Hardy: "UK border police have the power to seize all your personal data without reasonable suspicion and keep it effectively forever even if you are not charged with or suspected of a crime." How...
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Scoring Obama's NSA reforms (spoiler: it's not good)
Earlier this week, EFF published a scorecard for rating Obama's NSA reforms. Now that the reforms have been announced, it's time to measure them up. They don't fare well, I'm afraid. Here's a roundup...
View ArticleEU's highest court strikes down mass surveillance under the Data Retention...
The European Court of Justice, the highest court in the EU, has invalidated the European Parliament's Data Retention Directive, which required phone companies and ISPs to store your clicks, email...
View ArticleCowardice meets arrogance in UK surveillance stitch up
The issue has come up in such a whirlwind that you could be forgiven for missing it. On Wednesday, we learned that the leaders of all three major British political parties expected their members of...
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Understanding #DRIP: new spy powers being rammed through UK Parliament
The party line from MPs who are being told by their parties to vote in mass-scale, warrantless surveillance powers is that the law doesn't change anything -- it's a lie. DRIP makes sweeping changes to...
View ArticleWeaseling about surveillance, Australian Attorney General attains bullshit...
Michael writes, "Watching Australia's Attorney-General try to explain why tracking Australians' web histories is not such a big deal resembles listening to a dirty joke told by a ten-year-old, i.e. it...
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VPNs: which ones value your privacy?
Torrentfreak has published its annual survey of privacy-oriented VPN services, digging into each one's technical, legal and business practices to see how seriously they take the business of protecting...
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Triumphant Tories vow to ram through mass spying bill -- you can stop them!
Ed from the Open Rights Group writes, "The Conservatives have won an absolute majority in the General Election. The Home Secretary Theresa May has already said that she will use this majority to pass...
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US Passport Agency contractors harvested Americans' data for identity theft
Chloe McClendon worked for a State Department contractor, and conspired with two others to steal the identities of passport applicants by photographing their applications while processing them. The...
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Which Colombian ISPs keep your data private?
Karen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, "EFF is teaming up with groups in Latin America to take our 'Who Has Your Back' report international!" "Together with Colombia's Karisma...
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Radio Shack bankruptcy update: most customer data will be destroyed, not sold...
When electronics retailer Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, the chain proposed selling customers' personal data to raise cash and repay creditors. That's not gonna happen, and the news is seen as a...
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UK police & spies will have warrantless access to your browsing history
A new plan from Tory Home Secretary/Sith Lord Theresa May will require ISPs to retain one year's worth of Britons' online activity, and hand it over to the police and security services on demand,...
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UK law will allow secret backdoor orders for software, imprison you for...
Under the UK's new Snoopers Charter (AKA the Investigatory Powers Bill), the Secretary of State will be able to order companies to introduce security vulnerabilities into their software ("backdoors")...
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Devastating technical rebuttal to the Snoopers Charter
The Snoopers Charter is the UK Tory government's proposal to force ISPs to retain records of all their customers' online activities, and the government has used the excuse of the Paris attacks to call...
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Lessig on how the economics of data-retention will drive privacy tech
In an interview with the WSJ's CIO blog, Lawrence Lessig proposes that the existence of cryptographic tools that allow for "zero-knowledge" data-querying, combined with the potential liability from...
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NYC will cease retaining data that Trump could use for mass deportations
IDNYC is New York City's ID card program, and it has served as a critical means for undocumented migrants to get identity papers that they can use to establish utilities accounts, bank accounts, and...
View Article"Massive scale" intrusion into mobile carriers' networks exposed customers'...
The security firm Cybereason says that it has identified a likely state-sponsored attack on ten global mobile phone networks that they have attributed to "the Chinese-affiliated threat actor APT10,"...
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