The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sent a letter to the National Security Agency (NSA) Director Keith Alexander and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman asking whether the NSA was spying on the communications of organisations and…

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the email encryption software PGP, has warned that anyone who uses consumer email services needs to be aware of the threats of exposing their metadata to eavesdroppers. […]

The US government…

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Paris, 16 septembre 2013 — Ce lundi et mardi 17 septembre, le projet de loi dit « pour l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes » déposé par Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, sera discuté au Sénat en première lecture.…

The European Commission has put forward its set of proposals for the first step to reform the European telecoms market. Among the proposals, the long-awaited and much-debated scrapping of roaming fees makes an appearance, with…

For Europeans, Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance conducted by the US and the UK beg an obvious question: Do other European countries engage in similar activities? The answer is telling. […]

To be sure, European…

The award ceremony for the German Whistleblower Prize in Berlin showed how differently Edward Snowden’s leak of classified data can be interpreted. The state or the individual: where should the change begin? […]

Internet activist Jacob…

A Brazilian man held for nine hours at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws says he feels « invaded » after divulging his email and social media passwords. David Miranda said his interrogators threatened he could go to…

Joseph Bonicioli mostly uses the same internet you and I do. He pays a service provider a monthly fee to get him online. But to talk to his friends and neighbors in Athens, Greece, he’s…