The disclosure shows that agencies beyond the N.S.A. exploit call metadata with programs regulated by an inconsistent patchwork of legal standards, procedures and oversight.

Heard of PGP encryption, but have no idea what it means? Find out how it works and how you can encrypt files using PGP.

While Americans continue to learn more about the data surveillance program run by the National Security Agency, civil liberties groups are organizing what’s being billed as the largest privacy rally in United States history.

In this tutorial I'll show how to use encfs from the command line to create and manage an encrypted folder on Linux.

Revelations by Edward Snowden, National Security Agency dissident, have grave implications for the role of journalists in the ‘Fourth Estate’ and the primary duty of source protection in the era of mass-surveillance.

Small businesses must use data encryption to protect sensitive data from getting in the hands of hackers and criminals. Common myths and useful tips on encryption.

As we roll out the technology to implement the Affordable Care Act -- with millions of Americans signing up for the first time -- attempts to find and exploit weaknesses in the system are bound to increase.

'There has been no support for the agency from the President, and this has not gone unnoticed.'

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Schools across the country are looking at new online ways to integrate and analyze information about their students. But privacy advocates remain wary.

Coalfire surveyed 400 individuals working in a variety of industries across North America who are not affiliated with their company's IT department.

Nearly 30% of employees are using personal cloud services to store work-related documents, according to a survey conducted at recent technology trade

Twelve cases of unauthorised surveillance documented in letter from NSA's inspector general to senator Chuck Grassley

By Jacob Sullum - President Obama claims he welcomes the public debate over government surveillance programs that track personal information about millions of innocent Americans. But if it were up to him, the debate never would have happened, since the programs would have remained secret. Furthermore, his administration is treating the whistleblower who made the debate possible as...

The difference between privacy and anonymity, Internet freedom and NSA surveillance, and the future of the web - at RT’s Google Hangout, Rick Falkvinge answers the most pressing questions that concern all Internet users in their everyday lives.

We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps the Internet backbone through secret agreements with major US telcos., but the US government still hasn’t admitted it. In late August, the Obama administration declassified a ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Footnote 3 reads: The term ‘upstream collection’ refers to NSA’s interception of Internet communications as they transit [LONG REDACTED CLAUSE], [REDACTED], rather than to acquisitions directly from Internet service providers such as [LIST OF REDACTED THINGS, PRESUMABLY THE PRISM DOWNSTREAM COMPANIES]...