surveillance

Pro-Palestinian activists under increased surveillance on Massachusetts campuses

Rights groups are concerned as a growing number of pro-Palestinian activists, including Jewish activists, are being photographed and surveilled.

WhatsApp identifies dozens of users hacked by Paragon spyware company

Cybersecurity
A view of sensor arrays at a former NSA monitoring base in Bad Aibling in Bavaria, Germany.

The NSA’s bulk collection program may soon end, but they may not care

Justice
Municipal police officers watch screens in the video surveillance control room of the municipal police supervision centre in Nice February 9, 2015.

The French government’s new surveillance law opens the door to NSA-style mass surveillance

Technology
Police officers secure access to a residential building during investigations in the eastern French city of Reims on January 8, 2015, after the shooting against the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper.

How the Kouachi brothers fell through the cracks

Conflict
A man assembles police observation cameras near the Bayerischer Hof hotel before the start of the 50th Conference on Security Policy in Munich on January 31, 2014

The year of surveillance is finally over

Technology

Surveillance was all over the news in 2014, and we learned plenty of new ways governments and companies have found to track everyday users. Here’s a list of eight ways we found out our privacy was under attack this year.

Mysterious keyboard

A new online tracking tool may be shadowing you on the web

Business

A new online tracking tool called “canvas fingerprinting” is becoming more widespread and is also impossible to block

Mysterious keyboard

A new online tracking tool may be shadowing you on the web

Business

A new online tracking tool called “canvas fingerprinting” is becoming more widespread and is also impossible to block

Dragnet Nation

A cell phone wrapped in tin foil is just one of the ways Julia Angwin went off the grid in her new book

Global Politics

The ProPublica reporter spent the last year trying to outfox the spooks.

President Obama

President Obama proposes limits on NSA surveillance, but does the world buy it?

Global Politics

On the day that US President Barack Obama announced new limits on NSA mass surveillance, we asked three tech-savvy young people abroad what they think of US spying.