The National Security Agency is collecting millions of images of people through its international surveillance network to be implemented in a number of other facial recognition programs, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. [...]

​China has dismissed all US accusations of industrial cyber-espionage against five of its military officials and published proof that Washington is actually stealing data from China. Beijing also summoned the US ambassador for an explanation. [...]

While the United States has warned against buying Chinese routers due to surveillance concerns, a new book about the Edward Snowden revelations states America has been intercepting and tinkering with routers intended for foreign customers. [...]

Vienna is the first city in the world to be granted it's own URL domain suffix. Businesses and organisations associated with Vienna now have the chance to register websites with the ending '.wien', where you usually might have '.at' or '.com'. [...]

The official website of the Crimean referendum is down due to a cyber-attack that originated from the US, Crimean authorities say. The exact location from which the website’s servers were attacked was Illinois University, Crimean minister of information and mass communications Dmitry Polonsky told Itar-Tass news agency. [...]

"€œDear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance." That's a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations went into effect. It was the regime's police force, sending protesters the perfectly dystopian text message to accompany the newly minted, perfectly dystopian [...]

On February 11, a broad coalition of internet-involved organizations will go online to protest massive electronic surveillance by various governments. The action hopes to repeat the successful beating of SOPA/PIPA bills in 2012. [...]

This year, Great Britain's Channel 4 selected Edward Snowden to deliver an alternative holiday address to that of Queen Elizabeth this holiday season, marking his first television appearance since seeking asylum in Moscow. Snowden was chosen because of his disclosures of the many classified surveillance procedures in use by the NSA (and also, we hope, because his name has the word "snow" in it [...]

Here is a list of over 100 documentaries you can watch for free online. They are about Science, Consciousness, ETs, you name it. A smorgasbord of fascinating subjects to learn about. Knowledge is power, which you won't get from the betraying News Media, so turn off your TV and invest your time in watching some of the videos. [...]

The battle between Bitcoin users and investors on the one hand and central bankers on the other has been turning ugly. Anyone who follows the Bitcoin market closely cannot help but get dizzy. After racing from low $200 to low $1200s in less than two months, the digital currency dropped more than 35% in five days, and more than 50% from its all-time high two weeks ago. [...]

Choosing not to password protect your devices is the digital equivalent of leaving your home or car unlocked. If you're lucky, no one will take advantage of the access. Or maybe the contents will be ravaged and your favorite speakers and/or secrets stolen. [...]

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has said the US and UK must do more to protect internet users’ privacy as the US has fallen to fourth place in a survey ranking countries in terms of their internet freedom. [...]

There will be no children in my future. Ever. Yes, I am married. Yes, my husband knows that I do not want children. Yes, we both realize we'€™re extremely fortunate to be able to elect to live child-free. He doesn’t want kids either. It’s part of the reason I married him. (That, and he has excellent hair.) He married me knowing that and also because I always clean the litter box. [...]

Abby Martin takes a look at humanity's dependence on technology, the toxic ideal of consumption equating to happiness, and highlighting the need to reflect on the dilemma of conscious simplicity. [...]

Now anyone in the world can seek out your facebook profile. Over the years Facebook has been slowly scaling back their privacy settings, taking more and more control away from the user. One recent change that has been upsetting Facebook users is the fact that now anyone can find your profile by searching your name in their database. [...]