
May 13, 2012 (TSR) – A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the American government can go dark – essentially conceal all of its information – regarding communications or operations involving the National Security Agency and Google Inc. The issue arose following a January 2010 cyber attack on Google that the court said primarily targeted Gmail [...]

May 8, 2012 (TSR) - Facebook is expected to make billions when the social networking site goes public, but one of the most influential men on the Web says he won’t be buying stock. The founder of Reddit has denounced Facebook over their support of CISPA. In an interview with CNN this week, Reddit.com co-founder Alex [...]

by John Pilger, renowned investigative Australian journalist and international academy award winning documentary film-maker May 3, 2012 (TSR) - You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations [...]

by Tom Burghardt, Researcher and Activist May 1, 2012 (TSR) – On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the draconian Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523 or CISPA) by a vote of 248-168, with 206 Republicans and 42 Democrats voting in favor. If the legislation passes muster in the Senate and is signed [...]

United Nations, April 26, 2012 (TSR) – On Tuesday, Cuba denounced the illegal practice of using information technologies to subvert the political systems of other countries and violates their sovereignty through interference in their internal affairs. They also repudiated daily radio and TV aggressions from the US government violating international laws and the International Telecommunications Union [...]

April 12, 2012 (TSR) - Under the guise of “cybersecurity,” the new all-purpose bogeyman to increase the secret state’s already-formidable reach, the Obama administration and their congressional allies are crafting legislation that will open new backdoors for even more intrusive government surveillance: portals into our lives that will never be shut. As Antifascist Calling has frequently [...]

February 24, 2012 (TSR) - A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org’s Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports: We explain that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a host of other social networking platforms are increasingly viewed by intelligence agencies as [...]

February 8, 2012 (TSR) - When you use the Internet in a public place, do you prefer to have as much privacy as possible? Well, that makes you a potential terrorist. According to the FBI, Internet privacy is now considered to be suspicious activity. If you are out in public and you attempt to keep snoopers from peeking [...]

Jan. 26, 2012 (TSR) - Following a massive attack waged Thursday on several government and entertainment industry websites, hacktivists with Anonymous continued their assault over the weekend, momentarily taking CBS.com offline. The next target very well might be Facebook. The shut-down of the file sharing site Megaupload last week prompted thousands of users to participate in an Anonymous-led attack on opponents of the service, which left the [...]

Jan. 25, 2012 (TSR) - As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest threat to Internet freedom yet. ACTA has – officially – been in the works since 2008, [...]