The Electronic Frontier Foundation, as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information requests for exposure of government privacy intrusions, reported today that the FBI will have a…
Over the last year, our notion of privacy has been turned on its heel, as Snowden showed us all that the “government is listening” conspiracy folks weren’t…
For those reading VG or following the NSA debacle, it’s not news that security provider RSA got paid by the NSA to implement and push compromised security…
The title of this article is almost as much of a joke as the actual ‘news’ it’s about. The White House—and the devious jackasses inhabiting it—are trying…
WaPo is reporting that the NSA apparently has the technology to collect literally every single phone call in a foreign country, incoming or outgoing—and that they’ve done…
Remember that whole 24-hour kerfluffle about the Department of Homeland Control Security making a license plate database? We reported on it, and then it seemed the next…
Last week we heard all about how the NSA was pretending to be Facebook. Maybe you cared, maybe you didn’t. (If you didn’t, then you’re part of…
There’s a very disturbing article on Computer World this week regarding NSA chief Keith Alexander’s desire to make even writing about and/or linking to stories on the…
The state of Utah has some cojones. Their House has not only been debating a bill that would turn off the water to the NSA’s huge data…
Today we have a whirlwind tour of What The Media Isn’t Bothering To Care Much About. – SOFREP explains all the layers to the Ukraine issue and…
Bruce Schneier wrote a must read piece for the Guardian explaining why the NSA heads feel comfortable lying to the American people about their surveillance program. Turns…
NOTE: I’ve gotten a few emails from readers who have concerns that “If I stop using Google/Yahoo/Apple software, I won’t be able to do ____.” That’s not…
I’ve gotten a few emails from readers who have concerns that “If I stop using Google/Yahoo/Apple software, I won’t be able to do ____.” That’s not true,…
There’s a new app for your phone called CrowdPilot, and it may be even creepier than anything the NSA is doing. Billed as something that can help…
DuckDuckGo, the anti-Google answer, did 1 billion queries last year. They’ll do several times that this year. They’re the one search engine you should be ditching Google…
UPDATE: Apparently DHS has now canceled their plans for the nefarious database. Good riddance. They’ll just do something else unconstitutional instead. — The ACLU reported in 2012…
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