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The recent PRISM scandal has validated both the general public's growing unease with federal law enforcement agencies, and many of the fringe element's accusations about Big Brother's online behavior.

Those who use online anonymizing technologies to obscure their location are assumed to be non-US persons and should thus continue to be targeted by surveillance. That's one of many revelations comi...

Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and the Commissioner for Europe's Digital Agenda has vowed to protect EU citizens from privacy invasion by outside entities like the PRISM monitoring program run by the NSA.

Tech companies are denying giving direct access to the NSA. Does PRISM really give the NSA direct access to users' data?

In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase "Big Brother is watching you", which is the core "truth" of the propaganda system in this state.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term "Big Brother" has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.

Die Aufregung in den USA ist groß: Der US-Geheimdienst NSA soll Millionen von US-Internetnutzer bespitzelt haben und sich dazu einen direkten Zugriff auf die Server der neun größten US-Internet-Unternehmen verschafft haben.

The US tech scene has been shaken with allegations that authorities are monitoring US and international Internet users on Facebook, Google, YouTube and countless other services from ...

The National Security Agency's Perfect Citizen program hunts for vulnerabilities in 'large-scale' utilities, including power grid and gas pipeline controllers, new documents from EPIC show. Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News.

"Black-box" testing uncovers several ways the NSA could tap the popular service.

As Soghoian and other critics admit, the end-to-end encryption included with iMessage may make it impossible for Apple to decrypt conversations, at least in some circumstances. But in the absence of key details that Apple has steadfastly declined to provide, customers who are especially concerned about their privacy would do well to assume otherwise.

About a year after Facebook reportedly joined PRISM, Max Kelly, the social network's chief security officer left for a job at the National Security Agency, either a curious career move or one that makes complete sense...

Auch einzelne europäische Nutzer wurden über das Prism-Programm der NSA bespitzelt.

Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing data – including figures on US collection

Here's a brief summary of what we know, what we don't know, and how you can at least try to protect yourself from surveillance.

The National Security Agency's PRISM program tapped directly into the servers of most of the web's largest companies, monitoring our search history, the content of emails, file transfers, and live chats, The Guardian alleges.

"Direct Access" didn't mean no access. "Back door" didn't mean no door. "Only in accordance with the law" didn't mean PRISM is illegal. And you didn't need to have heard of a codename to have participated.

The NSA and FBI directly tapped central servers belonging to nine U.S. internet firms, in order to get a constant feed of audio, video, photos, emails and documents as well as connection logs, according to a new report.

• Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook • Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007