Another NSA scandal is spreading, as some new revelations show that the NSA can keep track of millions of people around the world, by locating their mobile phone. A real Big Brother and omniscient super- power… Since June 2013, when the first revelations were made by the former NSA consultant Edward Snowden, who is now
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Vietnam applies a new decree which shall sanction comments on social media that criticize the government with prison sentence or the equivalent of a $ 4,740 fine – which represents a non- negligible amount in this country. Writers of such comments that what can be considered as criminal offenses shall lead to a prison sentence.
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Despite waves of outrage from international media and world leaders, besides the U.S. Congress, a majority of American citizens still approve the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices. Surprisingly enough, they also support the controversial practice of spying on European allies. 51% of the people interviewed through this poll revealed by Techcrunch do think that NSA
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According to HP, the cost of cybercrime has increased by 78% in four years and in the same, the time required to respond to attacks has more than doubled. Moreover, attacks are getting much more frequent. Developed by the Ponemon Institute for HP, the 2013 edition of the Cost of Cybercrime study shows that cybercrime
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The censorship of the incident that happened on October 29th in the famous Tiananmen Square demonstrates the continued commitment of China to eliminate any challenge. But how does China manages to control internet and social networks? … The vehicle that drove into the crowd on Monday 29th and was set into fire under Mao’s portrait
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France has also been targeted by the U.S. intelligence. According to Le Monde investigations, the National Security Agency (NSA) has intercepted French citizens’ telephone communications on a massive scale. The documents released in June by Edward Snowden, the former consultant of the agency, describe the techniques used to illegally capture French secrets or privacy details.
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The famous NSA – i.e. U.S. intelligence agency – has collected hundreds of millions of digital lists of American contacts, through their emails or instant messaging services, as revealed by The Washington Post , referring to some documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA consultant. For example, during a single day in 2012, the
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On July 17th, some U.S. Congress members strongly criticized the monitoring programs implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA): Representatives from both parties, whether Democrats or Republicans believe that these actions violate Americans’ privacy and threatened not to renew the laws enable such programs to happen. Since the PRISM scandal started, the media and elected
Read More...These last weeks, all media have been into PRISM, this espionnage program developed by the NSA, the U.S. National Security Agency for the US government to spy on foreigners via Google, Facebook and other tools such as Skype. But the Washington Post has just unveiled another secret NSA program, which should also be much talked
Read More...Early June, the European Union was outraged to learn that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had developed a world computer surveillance program, called “Prism”, allowing its service to have access to many individuals’ personal data concerning their e-mail, SMS, Facebook messages, pictures, cloud … This is some side effect of the fight against terrorism,
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