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9 Household Items That Could Be Spying on You

By Adam Levin For Americans concerned about their privacy, the NSA data grabs are daunting, but what about the data grabs happening inside your own home, perpetrated not by the government but by your...

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How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer

By Clive Thompson 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,...

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Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and Other Telecoms Fighting to Cash In…...

By Lynn Stuart Parramore (Photo credit: 401(K) 2013) They call it “modernizing the rules.” We call it “cashing in on your privacy.” Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, DIRECTV, and other giant U.S....

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NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests

Headquarters of the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Siobhan Gorman National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping...

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Could privacy-protecting software become a new Internet standard?

If it’s on the Internet, it isn’t private. (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) By MIT Technology Review Following NSA surveillance revelations, talks advance on making the privacy-protecting tool Tor an...

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NSA Infiltrating Online Games Like World of Warcraft and Second-Life

World of Warcraft (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Alex Kane Players of fantasy games like World of Warcraft are usually worried about their character dying or running out of money. But new documents...

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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

By Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson, and Barton Gellman (Photo credit: Key Foster) The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers,...

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Which cell phone carriers are protecting privacy?

By The Stream Team The office of Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) recently published letters from seven major cell phone carriers that replied to his request for information on how often they received and...

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NSA reportedly using radio waves to tap offline computers

By Steven Musil The National Security Agency is using secret wireless technology that allows it to access and alter data on computers, even when they are not connected to the Internet, according to a...

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Here’s One Way You Can Get Rid of Most of the Damning Information About You...

By Elizabeth Preza If you’re one of the millions who use Google services everyday, you might be concerned about the troves of data the company has gathered on everything from your daily habits to your...

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