There was unanimous opposition to the bill across the tech industry.
A controversial draft law, which one senator called a "surveillance bill by another name," has passed the Senate. CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754), will allow private companies to share cyber-threat data with the federal government, including personal user data, in an effort to prevent cyberattacks, such as those on the
The former NSA official turned whistleblower said, among other things, a greater threat exists to Americans’ privacy than the controversial Patriot Act.
One of the highest-level whistleblowers to emerge from the National Security Agency, William Binney. NEW YORK -- It's not often you walk out after having lunch with a polite and intelligent retiree and know that you're probably now on a government watchlist. On Wednesday, I spoke with William Binney, a former National Security Agency
Two governments working together are said to have developed the state-sponsored malware that attacked the European Union. Guess what? One of the makers was an EU country.
Blame the British and American spy agencies for the latest state-sponsored malware attack, say reporters at The Intercept. The publication, which in the wake of Glenn Greenwald's departure from The Guardian continued to publish documents leaked by Edward Snowden, said on Monday the recently discovered malware, known as Regin, was used against