privacy

The eccentric millionaire is spitting in the eye of another authority with D-Central, a device intended to circumvent NSA drag-nets.

Some of the agency's countersurveillance tips are easy for anyone to implement.

When NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander addressed Black Hat earlier this year, he painted a rosy picture of how well the agency controls access to its phone record database, but he never brought up cases when those controls broke down, unauthorized access was made and data was shared among analysts who shouldn't have seen it. 

Silent Circle explains the technicalities behind its decision to fall on its sword before the government came a-knockin'.

A new privacy tool called MaskMe lets people create alias email addresses to evade data harvesting efforts by websites and marketers.