Yesterday, the Twitter account for the livestreaming software Lightstream accused rival streaming software maker Streamlabs of stealing marketing copy from its website. After Lightstream tweeted about how Streamlabs’ website text was modeled on its own…
Canada grants asylum to four people who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong
Charity helping the refugees says they are happy with the result but urges Ottawa to expedite asylum of remaining ‘Guardian Angel’Canada granted asylum to four people who hid former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in their tiny Hong Kong apartments when …
‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state – and the Americans who fought back
It took Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers to reveal the staggering extent of the government’s spying on its own people as institutional checks failedOn the morning of 11 September 2001, an 18-year-old was driving his white Honda Civic on the way …
The Guardian’s first Tech editor: ‘They gave me a demo and showed me things I couldn’t believe’
Victor Keegan, the correspondent who went on to put the first Guardian content online, recalls the chance news item in 1981 that opened up the possibilities of home computing and kicked off the paper’s dedicated coverage of a social revolutionTechnolog…
Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse | John Naughton
With Afghan citizens’ data now in the hands of the Taliban, assumptions about controls that check misuse of intelligence are wide of the markIn the summer of 2013, shortly after Edward Snowden’s revelations about the surveillance capabilities of the Am…