A University of California-Berkeley research team led by Professor Annette Vissing-Jorgensen recently discovered some evidence that indicates the United States Federal Reserve regularly leaks information to certain media outlets and investors that in turn leads […]
Tag: Data Collection
Obama’s Bandaid Fix Won’t Stop The NSA From Collecting Our Data
Acting under the Patriot Act, the NSA has collected metadata about telephone calls made by and to Americans which could later be searched. The collected data did not include the contents of a telephone call, […]
New Documents Reveal The NSA Is Literally Above The Law
Newly disclosed documents show the National Security Agency (NSA) has continued to spy on U.S. citizens by exploiting a legal loophole. Despite government’s orders to cease, they are continuing to collect bulk records about Americans’ […]
UK Citizens Will Have To Pay For Their Government To Spy On Them
The United Kingdom unveiled some hardline cyber-snooping legislation last week which will make it mandatory for Internet companies to store users’ web history for at least one year. The bill is aimed at boosting the […]
DC Judge Just Secured Temporary Victory In NSA Privacy War
A U.S. federal judge has dealt a blow, at least a temporary one, to the National Security Associations bulk collection of domestic phone records program, ordering the agency to shut it down. The order comes […]
FBI Under New Investigation For Mobile Phone Spying Programs
The U.S Department of Justice is investigating the FBI for information obtained from mass surveillance by the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone data collection methods. The NSA spying program secretly collected massive amounts of U.S. […]
British Government Spies on Internet Activity
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Britain has been spying on “every visible user on the internet”, as new documents have revealed the nature of a British government operation called KARMA POLICE. The operation was […]
Internet Of Things Data Accessibility Is Becoming Major Concern
The question of how to protect Internet of Things (IoT) data is puzzling experts everywhere. This type of data is not currently regulated, and some people believe that it should be. Anything with a Central […]
Windows 10 To Upload Your Browser History To Microsoft By Default
As we’ve said before, beware of tech companies bearing ‘free’ gifts. If something is free and offered to you by a big tech company, it’s likely not the product: Your personal data is. When Microsoft […]
Federal Government Caught Using School Lunch Programs To Track Children
The Hazleton Area School District in Pennsylvania will now provide free meals to all students, regardless of need. But there’s a gigantic catch: It is scanning students’ thumbprints to track all of their lunch purchases […]