NSA

It's perfectly legal for us to rummage in your cloud data, states UK's top spy boss This article is sponsored by:

Anything the NSA can do, GCHQ can do better. By classifying social networks as ‘external’ communications, UK spooks argue they are essentially licensed to do whatever they please when spying on cloud communications.

Has the European Court of Justice just holed Obama's NSA data gathering reform? This article is sponsored by:

Europe’s top court has set a precedent that could have global ramifications by declaring invalid the European Union’s ill-considered data retention laws and potentially undermining Obama's attempt at NSA data gathering reform.

Companies should 'just assume' governments will access their data and work from there This article is sponsored by:

Google today published its 9th Transparency report, which showed that government requests for user information have increased 120 percent since 2009

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