In 2013, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the British government had been snooping on citizens on a mass scale. Link: British Taxpayers Are Funding the UK’s Mass Surveillance Program
HackingTeam assured its clients that its services were untraceable. They also assured everyone else that their client list did not include repressive regimes. Now it appears that neither of those claims may be true. On Sunday, HackingTeam found itself on the receiving end of an attack. Link: Nothing Is Untraceable: How The HackingTeam Got Busted
A company that sells surveillance software to governments and law enforcement agencies has been hacked, exposing reams of sensitive data Hacking Team, a controversial Italian IT company that sells surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, has it Link: Hacking Team sold spying tools to repressive regimes, hack reveals
