Google beefs up user data encryption amidst NSA 'snoop-op' revelations

Last Updated: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 18:07

Google is reportedly encrypting the huge amount of data that flows through its data centers around the world following the NSA secret surveillance revelations.

NSA admits abusing spying power on Americans

Last Updated: Saturday, August 24, 2013, 15:45

US National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted that its analysts had intentionally abused their spying power on Americans.

European data agencies press EU over US spying

Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2013, 22:03

European data protection agencies have asked EU to help investigate extent of US electronic spying revealed by intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, warning surveillance may have breached privacy laws.

Project Prism and colour Indigo

Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 09:23

USA is not new to the controversies related to surveillance of its own citizens as well as its own allies.

German military knew about PRISM: Report

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 17:32

The German military has known for years of the sweeping US online surveillance programme PRISM, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a NATO document from the Afghanistan mission.

Yahoo wins court battle to declassify documents in PRISM case

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 13:11

Internet Corporation Yahoo has won the legal battle for publishing its arguments against the alleged US led NSA Prism programme.

Senator asks US to boycott Russian Winter Olympics

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 12:08

Senator Lindsey Graham suggested that the US should boycott the Russian Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi 2014, if Russia permits temporary asylum to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked the PRISM surveillance program.

Yahoo wants FISA objections revealed

Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 15:15

Internet Corporation Yahoo has reportedly asked the US surveillance court to allow it publishing files related to its fight against the alleged `snoop-op` Prism in 2008 led by the NSA.

France operates PRISM-like spy network: Report

Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 00:58

A leading French newspaper says France`s intelligence services have put in place a giant electronic surveillance gathering network.

EU-US trade talks to open parallel to spying probe: Barroso

Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 00:45

Free trade talks between the EU and US will open but run in tandem with working groups tasked with probing the extent of US spying, the head of the EU executive said on Thursday.

Snowden would probably return if won`t be detained: Father

Last Updated: Saturday, June 29, 2013, 00:13

The father of fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden insisted his son was not a traitor for revealing details of secret US surveillance programs, although admitted he did break the law.

Snowden case: US accuses Hong Kong of acting in bad faith

Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 18:45

United States accused Hong Kong`s government of acting in bad faith over US fugitive Edward Snowden and warned of repercussions, angrily rejecting city`s defence that it did everything by the book.