The National Security Agency is working with the Joint Special Operations Command's High Value Targeting task force to track targets using their cellphones and blow them away using drones, according to a new report.
Just as a court has approved of two of President Obama's reforms to limit the use of phone records by the National Security Agency, a report has come out showing that the NSA's phone record collection has actually already been somewhat limited - simply due to being overwhelmed by information.
With customer information privacy becoming a major concern with many in society, Verizon released a transparency report for its international businesses.
Internet rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation took the trouble to "score" President Obama's promises on reforming the National Security Agency's snooping practices.
After ex-contractor Edward Snowden's leaks sparked months of revelations about the National Security Agency's collection of U.S. phone records, as well as a breadth of other sweeping NSA surveillance programs, President Barack Obama spoke on Friday about changes he plans to make to the agency's mass data collection policies.
According to a new report from The New York Times, citing National Security Agency documents, "computer experts and American officials," the NSA has an ability to gain access to computers and alter their software remotely, using radio waves.
Ever since ex National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked a ton of top-secret material detailing many of the agency's projects and capabilities, any illusion of data privacy has been thoroughly stomped out. There are basically two reactions to this disquieting knowledge: to say "oh well" and continue about your life or try harder to protect your data. A new smartphone, called Blackphone, hopes to cater to the second type.
The National Security Agency (NSA) are reported to have monitored the calls of 35 world leaders, and over the course of one month last year, they monitored more than 60 million phone calls made in Spain, alone, according to a Spanish Newspaper, El Mundo.
Snowden and the man who broke his story state that The Independent must have been fed the info on a Middle East spy base by none other than their own U.K. government.
Lavabit, the email service Edward Snowden used for sensitive information has been forced to shut down. Additionally, the German government appears to have been using tactics similar to the NSA for the past six years.
