Snowden

While overkill for most people, Snowden's phone case would protect journalists and whistleblowers from undetected surveillance.

A report from research specialist Gartner says that the physical location of data is becoming irrelevant and that by 2020 a combination of legal, political and logical location will be more important.

So, in not-entirely-surprising news, the latest Snowden leaks allege the NSA hacked into Chinese firm's servers.

A slide leaked by Edward Snowden has shown that the NSA appropriated botnets to use as spying platforms, possibly infecting millions of computers.

Government agency pays huge lump sum to gain a backdoor into security programs on personal computers.

Requests to remove information from Google's search services have skyrocketed in the last year, the company reveals.

New documents show that multiple spy agencies in the US, as well as GCHQ in the UK, used online games as way to track down terrorists.

Google has been encrypting information flowing around its data centres to ward of prying government eyes.

Guardian editor calls government posturing 'pointless symbolism' in the digital age.

The European Parliament will launch a full inquiry amid 'grave concerns' over controversial spying programs