In 2004, American businessman Peter Thiel, inspired by The Lord of the Rings, founded Palantir Technologies, a company that analyzes big data and thus helps prevent terrorist attacks and find criminals. True, according to Bloomberg, over time, the company has become a global surveillance tool for ordinary Americans. Palantir Technologies ...
The WikiLeaks revelatory project has begun publishing a large array of classified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), codenamed Vault7. The leak is announced on the project's Twitter account as the largest in the history of American intelligence. The first part of the publication is called Year Zero and includes ...
On December 12, former Uber security officer Ward Spangenberg filed a lawsuit against the organization claiming that it was using an internal passenger tracking system to covertly track “high-ranking politicians, celebrities and even ...
Transportation company Uber now tracks the location of a customer even after they arrive at their destination and get out of the car. The app from Uber for Android version 3.222.4 automatically "flashes" user location tracking, reports Naked Security. In previous ...
During this period, the courts granted four million 517 thousand of the four million 695 thousand such petitions, human rights activists note in their study, citing data from the judicial department at the Supreme Court. At the same time, in just 9 years, listening on the basis of a court decision could ...
US intelligence and national security officials warn that the depth of understanding of Russia and the ability of the United States to gather information about the country leave much to be desired, despite the high stakes in current conflicts. The Washington Post newspaper writes about it. The publication indicates that ...
The US National Security Agency has been tracking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources. The leaders of friendly countries are being watched despite the promise of US President Barack Obama to abandon such measures, the newspaper emphasizes. ...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducts round-the-clock surveillance of potential terrorists on American soil. At least 48 people suspected of having ties to the Islamic State terrorist group are “under the surveillance” of the intelligence service, Fox News reported. According to American authorities, these people...
Former CIA officer Edward Snowden said that the British intelligence services have a whole set of programs for spying on smartphones, which are called a set of "smurfs" - after the heroes of the comic book Pierre Cullifor. A set of tools for jailbreaking allows you to turn on or off the phone without the user's knowledge (this element ...
The Washington Post has declassified documents obtained from the FBI, which say that American intelligence services have been tracking the world famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for 20 years. According to the newspaper, the surveillance of the Nobel Prize winner in literature has begun ...