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It's not just governments. Companies such as Google and Facebook spy on us too. We have clicked through to their 'free' digital services at the cost of sacrificing our privacy. So how do we get out?

Facebook is considered number one in American user engagement for a single website.

British spies hacked into the routers and networks of a Belgian telecommunications company by tricking telecom engineers into clicking on malicious LinkedIn and Slashdot pages, according to documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Some current and former U.S. intelligence officials say that the administration was not only aware of but OK'd the snooping, according to the Los Angeles Times. [Read more]
    

If you thought you were protecting your Facebook as much as possible, think again. A new app called FBStalker uses your friends list and Graph Search to find the most unfindable data.

Former foreign secretary says newspaper not in a position to judge whether its stories will damage national interest The Guardian has shown "extraordinary naivety and arrogance" over the publication of articles based on NSA documents leaked by the...

Nothing is truly NSA-proof or hacker-proof, but WireOver wants to offer you more security than Dropbox, Google Drive, or Skydrive. The Y Combinator startup just emerged from stealth with a desktop app that lets you send files of any size for free.

On the side of a spy satellite from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) that launched on Thursday night, you’ll find the logo for NROL-39: an Earth-encompassing octopus along with the tagline “Nothing is beyond our reach.

Well here’s one way to stymie the NSA: in a couple of years, much if not most of the open web will be encrypted by default.

The Indian government is planning to ban the use of private email services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail for official communication by the end of this year, as it seeks to protect important or sensitive data from being spied on.

A crowd of about 5,000 people, chanting "stop spying, stop lying" and "hey, ho, mass surveillance has got to go," marched through Washington, D.C., Saturday to protest the U.S.

Beginning in May 2010, the NSA gained access to the Mexican Presidencia domain on the Mexican Presidential network and began monitoring then-president Felipe Calderon's email account, according to a document leaked to Der Spiegel by Edward Snowden.

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