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Guantanamo detainees allowed phone calls

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Trial for ‘Big Brother’ care system

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What Exactly Are the Spy Agencies Doing with their Bag of...

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David Cameron appoints special envoy to preserve government data snooping

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London ANPR mass surveillance snooping

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Britain Sleep Walks Into a Police State as Political Dissent is...

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The FBI’s plan to collect everyone’s DNA just got a huge...

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ID card officials back away from scandal-hit database

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Home Secretary ditched ID cards without telling Brown

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EU admonishes US for overseas data requests

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DNA database growth defended by police

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Abuse at British embassy investigation “fundamentally flawed”

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Drones: From Afghanistan to Your Own Backyard

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MP calling for ID card scheme to be ditched

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MP accuses Government of building DNA database by stealth

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Edward Snowden given permission to stay in Russia for three more...

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President Obama — It’s time to stop illegal spying on all...

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Post Offices could take your fingerprints

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Identities will never be safe

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Police may be given power to take DNA samples in the...

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Number of juveniles held at Guantanamo almost twice official Pentagon figure

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Surveillance Society: Retail Giant Introduces ‘Minority Report’ Style Face Scanners

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Is There an ID Chip in Your Future?

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Our National Security State Knows Everything about You but Nothing about...

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Snowden Document Reveals Huge Scope of Canada’s Domestic Surveillance

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Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now...

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Ten ways to thwart Big Brother

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Gitmo Detainees’ Mental Health Is Latest Legal Battle

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Google will review Europe-only policy for ‘right to be forgotten’

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US Government Ordered Yahoo! To Provide User Data Or Face $250,000...

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Met Police snooping on tens of thousands with secret technology —...

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Assembly says no to ID card proposals

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Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV cameras

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Snowden applied for extended stay in Russia

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Ending Slavery for Pennies

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Noam Chomsky: Edward Snowden a True Patriot Who Should be Honored

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Google’s Schmidt: won’t ‘pass judgement’ on NSA surveillance

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US Wants More Powers To Ban Air Travellers

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GCHQ urged to halt snooping on people with no terror ties

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NSA failed to install anti-leak software at Snowden’s workplace – report

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Human rights activist on trial in China

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The Social Network Spy Software Created By War Criminals

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US warns out-of-control spy satellite is falling

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Parent Alert! NSF Awards Grant for Data Mining Children

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NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows

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Revealed: The Little-Known Law Behind Our ‘Collect It All’ Spy State

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British Health Trust Fined For Publishing Private Data

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FBI terrorist watch list hits 1 million entries

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Official report wants British spy agencies to retain intrusive powers

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Met Police chief calls for European DNA database

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Surveillance state: Is Uncle Sam the new Big Brother?

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A question of competence

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Is Your Android Device Telling the World Where You’ve Been?

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ID cards not compulsory after all, says Home Office

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Police face DNA ban

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Greenwald: Obama, Media ‘Irresponsible’ for Scaring Public Over Patriot Act

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The DNA database that will turn us into a Police State

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Use of DNA results is expanding

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US planning multi-billion dollar spy satellites

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Gitmo ‘Justice’ for US Citizens?

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Public support for ID cards dips to 55 per cent

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Big brother Britain

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Cost of ID cards blasted by MPs

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Former-Salt Lake City mayor wants to sue NSA over 2002 Olympics...

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U.S. opposes release of court rulings on wiretaps

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“Civil liberties board” allows government to destroy ours

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Watchdog barks at EU plan to hand asylum-seeker database to cops

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Nine held in ID card demo

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How Cheap and Easy Call Monitoring Puts You at Risk

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Researchers develop RFID ‘smart tags’ for workplace

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Police can track cell phones without warrant

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Global Smart ID For All UK Citizens

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Maryland Governor Orders Investigation of Spying by State Troopers

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FBI’s Proposals for Mandatory Tech Security ‘Back Doors’ Is Slammed by...

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Israel’s airport security questioned

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Judge rejects bid to derail wiretap challenge

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Police facing growing pressure over tactics

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FBI to build $1Bn biometrics database

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DHS Wants Private Surveillance Cameras In Every Neighborhood

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Private firm may track all email and calls

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Thousands of workers ‘blacklisted’ over political views

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US war crimes court to resume at Guantanamo

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Griffiths urged to oppose plan for national ID cards

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ID scheme plans 50,000 cards by April

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The former monitoring base of the National Security Agency (NSA), which belongs to the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND), is seen in Bad Aibling, south of Munich (Reuters/Michaela Rehle)

German govt actively assisted NSA in mass surveillance – WikiLeaks

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School for snooping: LA to monitor students’ social media postings

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UK ID cards will be useless in Europe

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Germany Admits Shadowy Facilities Were Spy Stations

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One in ten RFID projects tag humans

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Video: Schools punish students who refuse tracking microchips

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Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan

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Secrecy Trumps Public Debate in New Ruling On LA’s License Plate...

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ID Card Prints Flawed

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Nearly half of all criminals escape the DNA database say Lib...

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US court approves resumption of NSA’s bulk data collection

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Will privacy become a luxury only the wealthy can afford?

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British Tribunal Rules Mass Internet Surveillance by GCHQ Was Unlawful

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US power to spy on foreigners gets nod

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Delay for govt’s ID card system

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Schneier: Our Data, Ourselves

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Court Ruling that NSA Wiretapping is Illegal Drives Emergency Push for...

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Federal judge rules 2 Patriot Act provisions unconstitutional

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We are all put at risk by identity scheme

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ID CARDS.. BY FORCE

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Your face in the FBI database from 2014

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For 7 Years, FBI Defied Law for Seeking a Person’s Records...

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In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms

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DARPA 2009: Brains-on-a-Chip, Transparent Displays

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Google can’t protect our privacy. What we need are new laws

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‘We Are Resetting the Net to Shut Off Mass Surveillance’

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Calls for probe into prison bugging

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Wearable police surveillance cameras on the rise

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Privacy Doesn’t Exist, Get Used To Everyone Knowing Everything About You

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DEA’s Hemisphere Project collects more phone data than NSA

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China police “shoot two” in village land protest

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So Much Warrantless Surveillance, Feds Can’t Keep Track

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Numbers Tell the Story of Our Government’s Watchlisting Binge

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Airport security arsenal adds behavior detection

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Infosecurity adviser says there are greater intrusions to fear than the...

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The UK DNA database needs proper scrutiny

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‘Exposing Orwellian surveillance’: Greens call on Sweden to grant Edward Snowden...

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House approves changes in terror spy program

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Terror law puts Britons at risk of surveillance by US agents

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Failure to pass US surveillance reform bill could still curtail NSA...

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Diluted by US and Allies, Anti-Spying Bill Advances in UN

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Researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

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Watch out: the US government wants to pass new spying laws...

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64,000 DNA samples from our children – This needs to be...

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Brown moots register for terrorists, DNA rights for MI5

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Regulators demand Facebook tighten up privacy practices

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Citing Snowden leaks, FISA court orders government to review secretive NSA...

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Could your online porn habits be publicly released?

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Yahoo Mail To Be Scanned To Find Users Buying Habits

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Zimbabwe Abuses Could Constitute Crimes Against Humanity

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Data loss sends a chill down the spine

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Who is Angela Merkel working for and why?

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Illegal bugging of Muslim MP

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New High-Tech Cameras Are Watching You

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Britain tops data breach league

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Pentagon Looked at Activists to Study Social Media ‘Influencing’

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Europeans could get access to UK ID database

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Security expert reveals personal data risks

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Emails expose secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system

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New Snowden Docs Reveal Near Global Reach of NSA

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The threat of a police state looms over us

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Democratic senator boasts NSA “reform” bill vetted by US intelligence agencies

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Memo linked to warrantless surveillance

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FBI’s data gathering went far beyond target suspect

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NSA’s meta-data email surveillance program exposed

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NSA spied on German chancellor, ministers: Report

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Google Flu Trends tool raises privacy concerns

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Opposition to ID cards reaches 50%

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Tories reaffirm anti-ID card stance

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British libel laws violate human rights, says UN

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Web Bugs & Your Privacy

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Spying Telecoms Receive Billions in Government Contracts

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Report: Police Erred In Activist Surveillance

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Edward Snowden and ‘The Big Reveal’

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We’re ALL Winston Smith now – and our common enemy is...

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Local ID Cards would be another move towards a ‘database state’

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Lib Dems demand end to ‘surveillance society’

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Brain scan lie detectors ‘may already be in use’

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NSA pledges to eventually delete old bulk surveillance records. Oh sure,...

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Mass Surveillance: CIA To Access All UK Government Data

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Police given automatic access to mobile phone records

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How Federal Agents Illegally Force Twitter, Google, and Banks to Turn...

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High-Level NSA Whistleblower Says Blackmail Is a Huge — Unreported —...

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Who Should be on The DNA Register?

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FBI must explain Internet spy plans

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Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns

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Proposed Anti-Terror Law in France Would Erode Civil Liberties

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Internet companies building massive civilian database

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FBI Workers Accused Of Spying On Teen Girls

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Schools adopt swipe cards for toilet breaks

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Parliamentary watchdog not convinced about separate e-passports and ID cards

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Why should we pay the Orwellian licence fee?

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Cheney demands ‘permanent’ wiretaps

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Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request

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Homeland Security to scan federal computer networks without prior authorization

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Union attacks Big Brother CCTV plan for exams

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Data security fines quadruple in 12 months

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No2ID steal home secretary’s fingerprint

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ID cards – compulsory or not?

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Glenn Greenwald on Government Snooping: Why It’s Dangerous and What We...

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CIA Corporate Spying

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No2ID to ‘probe’ ID Act’s enabling laws

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The corporatization of privacy exploitation

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Gov’t told to stop collecting citizens’ data

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The price of ID infamy

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US court extends NSA surveillance rules in current form

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Can the DEA Hide a Surveillance Camera on Your Land?

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Do we trust government on ID cards?

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How the NSA Tried to Stop Exposé of the Agency

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FBI looks at DNA technique

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Police watchdog fails to block new demo video

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ACLU Demands Eavesdropping, Torture Memos From White House

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The Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over the Mind

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Big brands turning to Big Brother

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President Bush is guilty of terrorism

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Police custody services may go private

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India govt tapped 1,300 e-mail IDs in last 3 months

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Bomb-proof CCTV

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Germany’s NBD restricts cooperation with NSA: Reports

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Google announces it can now monitor your bills

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Xbox One: Constantly Listening To Conversations

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Court Blocks Suspension of Anti-RFID Student

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Biometrics trial at Gatwick

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How Did ‘Don’t Mess with the Money’ Become the NSA’s Motto?

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UK government bans photography

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Are we losing our civil liberties?

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No, NSA Spying Did NOT Prevent a Terror Attack on Wall...

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NSA and GCHQ: snooping because we can

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Is the mis-use of IT destroying our civil liberties?

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Government may snoop on websites

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Firms await verdict on £2 billion ID cards project

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School Secretly Monitoring Students’ Facebook Posts–On Advice from NSA

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Iowa City Moves to Ban Surveillance Technology Tools

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Growing Backlash to Facebook’s Ambient Sound Recording Feature

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Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets

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Age of the cyber spy

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Faceless: Chasing the Data Shadow

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Timeline: How National ID cards have become a reality

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U.S. to use Spy Evidence against Citizens?

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First ID cards issued

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Is freedom being eroded?

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Are patient privacy laws being misused to protect medical centers?

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Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law

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EU ID card By 2010

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Snowden: NSA Employees Routinely Pass Around Nude Photos Obtained Via Mass...

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Lib Dems call to abandon ID cards

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Why the ACLU’s Big Victory Against NSA Surveillance Falls Short

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Data Mining Your Life

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EU privacy A-Team tells Google: Get a grip and obey OUR...

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Older generation could scupper £4.4bn National Identity Scheme

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ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Halt NSA’s Resumption of Bulk Phone...

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The Spy Who Wants Israel to Talk

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Can we trust Government over ID cards?

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US Supreme Court allows police to take DNA samples of arrestees

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Ukraine’s “Terrorists” Talk.

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Exposed: Big Brother’s ‘Unique and Productive’ Relationship with AT&T

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No! Your data is not safe!: Hackers Used Government Spyware to...

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Court says no to CSIS wiretaps overseas

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Passport Service dismisses 14 for database abuses

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MPs voice fears over ID cards

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Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK

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Verizon turns voyeur. A Peeping Tom watching me, watching you, watching...

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US has become a massive big brother police state: Journalist

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Spy for a spy: Germany to monitor US, UK agents

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Israeli satellite to spy on Iran

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Questioning Edward Snowden’s Cure-All

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White House tracking website visitors with online ‘fingerprinting’

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Penalty of £1,000 for failing to update ID cards

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Welcome To The TSA’s Creepy-Ass “Behavior Detection” Program

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Study Finds Google is Top Tracker of Web Users

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National ID card plan faces flaw

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Google admits scanning Gmail for kiddie porn after turning in pedophile

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NSA spied on French economy ministers, companies: WikiLeaks

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Proposal to create EU-wide “troublemakers” database

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Top US lawmaker threatens contempt proceedings against Bush administration officials

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Sears Spying On Its Users & Reveals Their Data

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Europe to rule on whether police can keep DNA of innocent...

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U.N.: Nations Hide Rise in Private Digital Snooping

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Government tries to abuse the Bill of Rights

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Freaked Out About FaceBook

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New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantánamo Trials

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Telecoms Backing Off Illegal Wiretaps for Bush

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Schools scanned students’ irises without permission

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‘Politically Explosive’ Docs Show How NSA Wiretaps Earth

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NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents

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Judge rules Facebook must face lawsuits over violating users’ privacy

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Government ignored serious ‘concerns’ over ID card feasibility and benefits

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German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) headquarters in Berlin (Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch)

German govt accused of lying to parliament about NSA spying

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DNA database swabs over 100,000

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BUSH’S LAWYERS GAVE GREEN LIGHT TO ILLEGAL SPYNG

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Should we trust DNA?

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Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’

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UK heat seeking spy in the sky

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Home Office reveals first projects for ID Scheme

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Feds to require visitors’ fingerprints when they leave US

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Secret FISA Court redefines law to justify illegal spying operations

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UK parliament’s intelligence and security committee cancels questioning of UK spy...

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Imation shines light on scale of NHS data breaches

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Big brother is watching

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Pre-Crime Police Target Mental Health

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University students to face fingerprint scanners to prove they are attending...

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Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists

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Adviser Says McCain Backs Bush Wiretaps

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Data losses put UK at foot of privacy league

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Wiretapping’s true danger

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Police must not store DNA details of the innocent – report

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Lecturers defy government over ID cards

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Broad Coalition Sues NSA Over Unconstitutional Surveillance

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Growing opposition to ID cards

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Curbs on Surveillance State Urged

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FOIA Documents Detail FBI Surveillance Network

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Smile please, you’re on 1,000 CCTV cameras

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Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Inquiry on Interrogation Role

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80% of “junk” DNA reveals private details

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GCHQ spying on rights groups ‘illegal’

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UK data watchdog issues Big Brother warning

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The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena

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‘Beyond Orwellian’: Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program

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Gait Recognition Software Proposed For Surveillance At A Distance

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Supreme Court: Police retention of data on peaceful protester breaches privacy...

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Government Spying on Americans … and then Giving Info to Giant...

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Study: Surveillance in the home leaves bad side effects

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Coming Soon: New York Mass Surveillance

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Top NSA Whistleblower: Federal Government Has Gone Rogue

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Australian Spy Agency Goes ‘Orwellian’ with Nation’s Privacy Laws

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Microsoft accepts ‘contempt of court’ deal to appeal email privacy case

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New Police “Sneak and Peak” Technology Exclusive

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Mobile Phone Number Moving Caused Feds to Wiretap Wrong American

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Snooping on Everyone While the Big Box Thieves Get Busy

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New Zealand’s Prime Minister: ‘Snowden Might Be Right’

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How Eric Snowden Changed Our World

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NSA: Not Only Snooping But Infecting Computer Networks Worldwide

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Council rules out ‘unlawful’ CCTV

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5 Ways Mass Surveillance Is Destroying the US Economy

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Tagging Alzheimer Patients

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Britain’s Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty’s “Black Boxes”

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Police ordered illegal CCTV cameras to be placed in home

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Google Glass – Wearable Orwellian Surveillance Devices

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US attacks China’s human rights record

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Drink-drive offenders could keep licences

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Battle for ID cards hits the Commons

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Supreme Court Sets Powerful Limits for Cell Searches, Fails to Protect...

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Committee calls for database prudence

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NSA sued over fears that former director is selling secrets

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Will civil liberties be eroded by eborders legislation?

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NY police cleared in 50-bullet wedding day shooting

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MI6 forced to show how it may snoop on privileged lawyer-client...

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The dystopian danger of police body cameras

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Government plans to install CCTV in 20,000 homes

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Top Web Companies Slammed Over Privacy Concerns

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How the CIA and FBI can read your email

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Greenwald: NSA is attack on our dissent

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U.S. Senate passes Bush-backed spy bill

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UK TV Documentary about surveillance and privacy needs YOU!

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NSA warrantless surveillance debate looms

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DNA database grows by 38 per cent in two years

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Court: If Violating Your Privacy Helps The Police, It’s Not Violating...

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Police seek wider DNA data powers

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Tracking by sun: RFID goes solar

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Leaked UK Government Document on National ID

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