All Stories: surveillance

ATHENS: Greek prosecutors said Monday they had ordered an investigation into the suspected hacking of a Greek journalist's mobile phone, following revelations by an...

Dozens of Chinese firms have built software that uses artificial intelligence to sort data collected on residents, amid high demand from authorities seeking to...

Allegations that governments used phone malware supplied by an Israeli firm to spy on journalists, activists and heads of state have "exposed a global...

An annual report on online freedom by the nonprofit group Freedom House found evidence of "advanced social media surveillance programs" in at least 40 of 65 countries analyzed.

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate on Tuesday planned to vote to advance a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrant-less internet surveillance program, as privacy...

CALIFORNIA: Facebook Inc barred software developers on Monday from using the massive social network's data to create surveillance tools, closing off a process that...

ISLAMABAD: India has deployed its Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) at the Line of Control (LoC) for surveillance of Pakistan, citing sources ARY News reports. Sources...

GENEVA: Swiss voters looked set to approve a new surveillance law on Sunday, in a victory for the government which argued the security services needed enhanced powers in an increasingly volatile world.  

A UK-based non-governmental organization – campaigning across the world on privacy issues – has demanded of the Pakistan government to move away from its current surveillance model that jeopardizes individuals’ privacy and threatens democracy on a larger scale.

CALIFORNIA: Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging the government's mass surveillance program.

KARACHI: Chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain on Monday demanded to form committees comprises of local residents of different cities to keep an eye on terrorists, ARY News reported.

VIENNA: Silent Circle, a company known for mobile apps designed to thwart government surveillance, is introducing on Thursday a secrecy-cloaking phone service that lets customers make and receive private phone calls for as little as $12.95 a month.