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The president says major revelations are coming. GCHQ says he’s talking nonsense.
A new national security communications unit has echoes of the past, when the government tried to weaponise information, with mixed results.
Having a nationwide firewall means trusting the same people who spy on communications.
How the internet has made us terrifyingly vulnerable.
Have you got the keen eye and quizzical mind of a professional spy? Let’s find out …
As Wikileaks reveals yet more details of the astonishing extent of GCHQ mass surveillance, where is the proof that bulk data collection even works?
An independent review recommends greater transparency but ultimately concludes surveillance can continue.
Police and spies’ calls for more powers should fall on deaf ears until they have learned the letter of the law.
Proposals from the Intelligence Committee could bring GCHQ into the public eye like never before.
Committee report reveals ‘citizens dossiers’ feared but never admitted to have existed for decades.
Can the NSA and GCHQ really listen to your phone? Should we be concerned if they could?
Two years after Edward Snowden’s allegations concerning mass surveillance, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the UK intelligence agencies complaints tribunal, has ruled that the manner in which the UK’s…
One method for safeguarding online anonymity is Tor, “the onion router”, whose name comes from its method of adding and stripping away encryption layer by layer as messages pass from one node to another…
Robert Hannigan, the new head of British signals intelligence agency GCHQ, has accused technology companies of aiding terrorists and criminals by providing them secure communications through their products…
The language Robert Hannigan, the new head of GCHQ, uses in his opening statement is well considered in his appeal to openness, democratic values, and the need for corporate responsibility towards helping…
In a surprise move, the coalition government has announced a fast-track piece of legislation, designed to oblige Internet and mobile telephone service providers to retain the meta-data of call, text, and…
Jeremy Clarkson is in the soup again for saying the wrong thing. This time he has been accused of using deeply offensive, racist language, in a Top Gear outtake two years ago. The usual gang of anti-Clarksonites…
Just ahead of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Edward Snowden has sent what he hopes will be a strong message to the powers that control the internet in a video link streamed live to South by…
News that government intelligence agency GCHQ has been intercepting and storing webcam images from 1.8 million users of Yahoo’s chat service under the codename Optic Nerve is a reminder of how close we…
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