In recent years, a lot of concern has come regarding government spying on internet activity. Although the NSA continues to monitor the internet activity of Americans, it has simply [...]
Internet monitoring is the act of capturing data as it travels across the internet towards its intended destination. - taken out from Privacy International's explainer. The internet traffic, or all [...]
Before there was the Internet, mainly the Governments and Intelligence Agencies did the spying through: Human Source Intelligence (HUMINT). Sources were gathered in various ways, captured enemies, discontented defense [...]
What is Mass Surveillance? Mass surveillance is the act of complex monitoring and data collection of an entire population or a specific group of that population done at random or [...]
Or they are transferring the scanning in another form of their email service? Google to preserve user’s privacy? Even though analysts may say “Privacy is dead”, people are getting more [...]
It didn't take long Britain to bring the IP Bill to life after a draft had been introduced in the Parliament. Only a year. "The 245 pages contained the [...]
Everything from monitoring, interception, collection, preservation to retention of information by a third party, that has been communicated, relayed or generated over communications networks to a group of recipients is called [...]
The Arab Spring had an unlikely beneficiary - Western technology firms. The Atlantic reports that Middle Eastern governments paid big businesses from the other side of the planet a lot [...]
Mass surveillance is no secret. What seemed like a far-fetched plot line for a James Bond movie a few decades ago is now a reality in most of the world. [...]
