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Lawrence has the details .  You can turn the damn stuff off. And oh by the way, they're getting sued over it.

I posted about it a while back .   Lawrence has been following this and has an update linking it to China : Well, as suspected, it was China...

The NSA and the UK GCHQ have jointly declassified a pile of WWII documents and actually produced a book: Secret Messengers: Disseminating SI...

LOL .  I thought that song was hilarious.  You can listen to it here . Remember to always call it please "research" ...

I know that some of you are former Secret Squirrel types, and a bunch more were (shall we say) Secret Squirrel adjacent.  I just stumbled ac...

The Surveillance State is bringing people together.  In this case Apple (iOS) and Google (Android).  You will now be able to send end-to-end...

Last week I posted about the Congressional request that DNI Gabbard look into the UK government's demand that Apple put an encryption b...

We shall not see them relit in our lifetimes : Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says her company will withdraw from countries that force messag...

Maybe there's something in the water in Washington D.C. these days, but this is clearly A Very Good Thing Indeed : A bipartisan, bicamer...

Holy cow, what a nightmare : Microsoft is not giving up on its controversial Windows Recall, though says it will give customers an option to...

A competitor claims that it's not : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov issued a scathing criticism of Signal, alleging the messaging service is no...

You know, the one today?  Guess what? It's actually got new stuff in it - and you are now required to spy for Uncle Sam. Yes, you . But ...

Interesting : Earlier this month, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intention to gather basic information about the energy co...

Interesting .   There are a lot of surprises on this list, both stores I expected to use this tech who say they won't, and stores I expe...

Hey, you can trust the Government, right ? All of the big pharmacy chains in the US hand over sensitive medical records to law enforcement w...

Well done : Onstage at   TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit...

This is not surprising, but a systematic analysis from the Mozilla Foundation shows that no car company takes data privacy seriously - and ...

Low mileage.  Serious inquiries only. Extra bonus points if you install a WiFi router and set the SSID to "NSA Surveillance Van 117...

Their new Terms Of Service say that they have the right to listen in on your calls and use them to train their AI .  Their execs say that th...

Hmmmmm : Most interestingly is the researchers’ findings of what they describe as the backdoor in TEA1. Ordinarily, radios using TEA1 used a...