‘Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has signaled plans to apply hate crime laws against advocacy groups that encourage the boycott of Israel, a report says. The report by the Canadian broadcaster, CBC News […]

‘A totalitarian state is only as strong as its informants. And the United States has a lot of them. They read our emails. They listen to, download and store our phone calls. They photograph us […]

Constitutionalists should sense something sinister in the IRS’s purchase of license plate tracking technology.

The former NSA contractor who lifted the lid on mass surveillance in the US has a message for Australians living with new data retention laws: “You are being watched.”

We know what the election victory for the Tories in the United Kingdom signifies. Britain, festooned in the confetti of democratic freedoms, is heading for a further trimming, a pruning that will privilege surveillance powers […]

‘The US National Security Agency asked German intelligence service to spy on the European country’s technology giant Siemens, a new report reveals. The NSA suspected that Siemens was providing communications technology to a Russian secret […]

“There’s not one other candidate… willing to say, `On Day One, I’d stop it all. I’d end all bulk collection of records.'”

‘David Cameron will use the Conservative Party’s first majority in the House of Commons for nearly 20 years to “deliver” on a radical agenda to cut welfare, shrink the size of the state and re-define […]

‘The head of the US intelligence agencies “forgot” the truth when he wrongly told Congress that the government did not deliberately collect information about millions of Americans, according to his top lawyer. James Clapper made […]

‘The Conservatives are already planning to introduce the huge surveillance powers known as the Snoopers’ Charter, hoping that the removal from government of the Liberal Democrats that previously blocked the controversial law will allow it […]

‘A Facebook event page created by animal rights activists last September was monitored by a Texas counterterrorism unit, recently uncovered emails show. According to news site MuckRock.com, which obtained the documents through a public records […]