Yahoo’s scanning program provided the government with a custom-built back door into the company’s mail service — and it was so sloppily installed that it posed a huge privacy hazard for users, according to a former Yahoo employee.
A neighbor describes FBI agents swarming the suburban Maryland home of NSA contractor (and accused information thief) Harold Martin III.
Twenty hours after the Reuters story first broke, Yahoo's PR firm issues 29 words that almost certainly don't mean what they are intended to suggest.
Reuters reports that Yahoo has designed a bespoke email-wiretap service for the U.S. government, making a Yahoo account a toxic surveillance liability.
When you make a new text on your iPhone and enter a number, it gets sent to Apple, which logs it, according to a law enforcement document we obtained.
Fifty scared humans and a software bot can tag any event with an ominous Facebook “safety check.”
At a recent government privacy conference, more than two-thirds of the research came from authors with financial ties to Google.
Close to 200 pages of confidential documentation detail specific, powerful capabilities for cellular monitoring.
Apple should stop bragging about its bravery and start paying its fair share.
A 120-page document from the British firm Cobham was circulated to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, from which it leaked.
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