Privacy & Intellectual Property
NSA and GCHQ Steal Keys to SIM Cards
Whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals how US and UK intelligence agencies hacked the world's largest SIM maker, and mobile operators, in order to steal encryption keys.
The Difficult Relationship Between Telcos and P2P
Do you ever share files for work? Most of us do, and most of us find it can be an annoyingly convoluted process....
Whatsapp Data Puts Facebook Deal in Jeopardy
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has complained to the US Federal Trade Commission about Facebook's proposed purchase of Whatsapp. Their concern is that...
Vodafone Concerns Over Surveillance in USA
Vodafone's privacy boss has taken the unusual step of garnering public support - via mainstream news media - as part of his company's strategy...
The Real Cost of Internet Filters
Internet filters have become surprisingly popular, given that the internet was already wildly popular before anybody started to filter it. The UK has...
Confronting the Risks When Governments Gather Phone Data
In the wake of a Federal judge's ruling that the United States' National Security Agency probably acted unconstitutionally by accumulating huge volumes of call...
Secure Email Providers Close In Response to US Surveillance
Edward Snowden's recent revelations about US government surveillance have prompted a lot of speculation about the wider impact on the US communications industry. ...
Secret Court Order Shows US Government Collecting All CDRs From One Telco
Britain's Guardian newspaper has broken a story claiming the United States' National Security Agency is currently collecting every CDR for every call carried by...
Obama Administration: Right to Unlock Phones is ‘Common Sense’
We recently wrote about the US petition to allow mobile phones to be unlocked, which was prompted by a change in the application of...
Obama Petitioned to Allow Phone Unlocking
Vinton Cerf may be called one of the 'fathers of the internet', but he hardly ever uses Twitter. However, a little tweet from...
Anonymous Target Criminalization of TOS Violations
Given the track record of Anonymous, the faceless group of hacker vigilantes, it would be easy to dismiss their latest attack on the US...
UK Govt Official Recommends Fake Names on the Internet
A few weeks ago, I wrote how privacy activists encourage internet users to provide fake data instead of their personal details. Such a...
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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