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Google: Government user info requests have doubled in three years
By Michael Rougeau published
According to Google's latest report, requests pertaining to user counts has increased by 100% since 2010.
AT&T may have handed phone records to the CIA in exchange for $10 million
By Matt Swider published
Money talks and so do money-hungry phone carriers with call records, according to a new report.
Apple says it couldn't read your iMessages even if it wanted to
By Michael Rougeau published
After hackers claimed otherwise, Apple said that iMessages would have to be redesigned for the company to intercept them.
NSA collects 250 million global email contact lists a year
By Farrha Khan published
A new report says typical intake figures for a single day from 2012 points to a rate of more than 250 million accounts a year that the NSA collected contact lists from.
New bill looks to rein in some of NSA's most controversial spying practices
By JR Bookwalter published
Spy agencies square off with Congress over proposed reforms that would prevent phone record data collection and more.
Google chairmain won't 'pass judgement' on government spying
By Michael Rougeau published
Google's Eric Schmidt says "it's the nature of our society" for spying, like we've seen at the NSA, to take place.
Google now encrypting data to deter NSA snoops
By Chris Smith published
Google has been encrypting information flowing around its data centres to ward of prying government eyes.
The guys that fight governments that spy on you
By Mike Saunders published
In Depth We investigate how the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) protects us from the organisations that are out to steal your data.
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