Search Results for: Edward Snowden
GDPR is missing the point, says Edward Snowden
November 14th, 2019
Europe’s data protection legislation is still missing the point and will remain a ‘paper tiger’ until internet giants are hit with big fines, according to NSA-contractor turned whistleblower and privacy campaigner Edward Snowden. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...
Former CIA employee and NSA Edward Snowden on Bitcoin
August 21st, 2015
Speaking in an interview during IETF 93 Meeting, former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden, spoke among others about Bitcoin. He focused his talk on Bitcoin’s flaws and weakness. Edward Snowden began by briefly speaking about the the ...
Report: Leaked Snowden documents show NSA hacked Chinese telecom company
March 24th, 2014
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden and reported by the New York Times reveal efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei. The Times reported the U.S. National Security Agency monitored communications of top Huawei executives ...
EU top court invalidates EU-US data transfer agreement over surveillance concerns
July 23rd, 2020
The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that an agreement with the US allowing for the transfer of personal data from the bloc to Washington is invalid because of surveillance concerns. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ...
Football Leaks: Corruption of the game
December 5th, 2016
From where did the largest dataset leak in the history of sports come? And who is the man who exposed the corruption and tax scheming – the individual who is now being hunted down by the giants of the ...
Controversial state surveillance bill becomes law in UK
December 5th, 2016
The Investigatory Powers Bill will get royal assent on Tuesday. More than 130,000 people have signed a petition calling for it to be scrapped. Tim Berners-Lee has said it creates a “security nightmare”. Edward Snowden has described it as ...
Hackers claim to have stolen cyberweapons from NSA, demand 1 million Bitcoin in exchange
August 17th, 2016
A hacking group called The Shadow Brokers claims to have acquired hacking tools from a group linked to the US National Security Agency (NSA), and is now asking for 1 million Bitcoin (about $568 million) in an auction in exchange for ...
Facebook May Be Listening In On Your Phone Conversations
June 2nd, 2016
*Calmly picks up cell phone. Walks over to window. Opens up window. Whispers into phone, “Go f*ck yourself, Zuckerberg.” Chucks phone out of window.* At one point, the concept of living in a “big brother”-esque society was something that only ...
Europe vs. Facebook: Austrian activist wins another legal battle over data protection
May 27th, 2016
An Austrian privacy activist has won his next legal battle against so-called “model contract clauses,” used by thousands of multinational companies, including Facebook and Amazon, to legally transfer Europeans’ personal data to the US. Max Schrems, the 28-year-old data ...
Whatsapp adds end-to-end encryption
April 6th, 2016
Instant messaging service Whatsapp has announced it will encrypt all its users’ communications from Tuesday. With end-to-end encryption, messages are scrambled as they leave the sender’s device and can only be decrypted by the recipient’s device. It renders messages ...
