EFF, ACLU, Other NGOs Urging U.N. to Create Privacy Watchdog

A coalition of 63 non-governmental organizations NGOs from around the world are calling on national governments to support the establishment of a special rapporteur on the right to privacy within the United Nations. According to U.N. documents, special rapporteurs also known as special procedures...

FISC Approves 90-Day Extension of Section 215 Surveillance Authority

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the Section 215 bulk telephone collection program used by the National Security Agency, giving the agency through the end of February to run the program in the absence of legislation establishing a new...

Detekt - scans your Windows computer for traces of known surveillance spyware

Detekt is a free tool that scans your Windows computer for traces of FinFisher and Hacking Team RCS, commercial surveillance spyware that has been identified to be also used to target and monitor human rights defenders and journalists around the world. In recent years we have witnessed a huge...