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Adrienne Erin | The Pentagon just loves its drones, unmanned planes ranging in size from passenger planes to ̶ if rumors are correct ̶ tiny devices as small as hummingbirds. Despite concerns with crashes, civilian causalities and charges of arbitrary ...

RT | The Senate agreed on Friday to approve an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, legislation that allows the NSA and other US intelligence agencies to wiretap conversations involving foreign citizens without obtaining a warrant. Despite growing opposition ...

RINF News reports that Germany is now considering adopting a new level of Orwellian surveillance similar to the UK, while the United States installs spy technology on buses and subways to record private conversations.

A SpongeBob app became the latest game to be pulled following a complaint it had violated children’s privacy rights. Nickelodeon removed SpongeBob Diner Dash from Apple’s iTunes app store after a US advocacy group contacted the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ...

Communities and Local Government minister Eric Pickles has confirmed that there was a ‘big brother’ spying operation into people’s properties under the last Labour government. It is not clear when the surveillance stopped. Media stories which claimed that people’s homes ...

One of the most outrageous attempts by any company or country anywhere (including North Korea, Iran and Stalinist Russia) to spy on private citizens has been made public in the US after the Patent and Trademark Office published a Verizon ...

University students may have to scan their fingerprints in future to prove they are going to their lectures. Newcastle University plans to introduce biometric scanners to bring the institution in line with the UK Border Agency (UKBA) and clamp down ...

CONTROVERSIAL covert surveillance and data interception legislation has been used by Essex council officers almost 40 times, figures reveal. According to a report by Essex County Council (ECC), 37 requests to obtain communications records from communication companies and one authorisation ...

Civil liberties groups have reacted very poorly to a proposed new NHS genetic profiling scheme. NHS plans for a £100m DNA “data infrastructure” of certain NHS patients to aid medical research have drawn sharp protests from critics, concerned about the ...

A measure granting the government expansive power to intercept electronic communications in the United States without a warrant is set to expire this month, setting up a sharp debate in the Senate over how to balance privacy against national security. ...