The dangers of knowing that users’ data and information are unprotected online have become the subject of discussion in the last decade. As a matter of fact, the reality that big tech companies can profit from this data or that it can be used maliciously has only entered the arena of protective legislation in recent years.
How safe are your online memories? (via Pando Daily)
By Stuart Jeffrey On December 27, 2013 How many of your cherished memories, and even important work documents, only exist online? Taken together, photo and video sharing sites, blogging and microblogging sites, as well as social media, have formed an…
CIA paid AT&T for phone records (via AFP)
The CIA pays AT&T more than $10 million a year to provide phone records with possible links to suspected terrorists, the New York Times reported Thursday, citing government officials. The arrangement is voluntary and there is no court order requiring…
How NSA Hacked Yahoo, Google Datacenter Networks (via slashdot)
The National Security Agency secretly broke into the network connections between datacenters belonging to Yahoo, Google and other companies to drink data direct from the firehose, as well as collect metadata about the Internet use of U.S. residents,…
Russian FSB to Give NSA Lesson in Digital Surveillance at Winter Olympics (via slashdot)
The Winter Olympic games in the Russian city of Sochi promises to be a blast from the (Soviet) past with a dash of NSA-style surveillance thrown in, according to reports hinting that Russian security services will run a surveillance network so comprehensive…
Google says UK privacy laws can’t touch it (via The Inquirer)
INTERNET SERVICES GIANT Google has told the UK High Court that it is not subject to UK privacy laws because it is a US company. Google is in court because it danced around security settings on the Apple iPhone and collected some users’ personal information…
