Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden: Report

Russia on Monday granted citizenship to former US National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was given asylum in the country after he made sensational claims about a......

Smartphones can be hacked with just one text: Edward Snowden

American whistleblower Edward Snowden. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters Britain secretly obtained vast amounts of communications data from Pakistan to identify terrorists by hacking into routers......

US whistleblower Edward Snowden joins Twitter

Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has opened an account on the social network website Twitter. His opening tweet was: “Can you hear me now?” In his profile, Snowden......

Mission accomplished, says Edward Snowden

Intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has said that he has already "accomplished" his mission by leaking details of global electronic surveillance by America that have embarrassed the Obama......

Whistleblowing and handling whistleblowers is tricky

'Handled poorly, it could either lead to a witch-hunt in organisations that is fertile soil for yes-men; or lead to even bona fide decisions and entire organisational systems being held to ransom,'......

Which smartphones do Obama, Putin, Cameron use?

After Edward Snowden* revealed that US agencies monitored phones of the world leaders; every country is ensuring that the phones of its important officials are secured against hacking and......

The best and worst gadgets of 2013

This year had a lot happening in the personal technology space. By December, one had lost count of the number of smartphones (which got bigger and better) that were launched this year. It was also......

Private e-mail IDs expose govt offices to snoop threat

It’s been about six months since revelations about the US government’s snooping programme, PRISM, hit the headlines. The documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor......

Gay athletes part of U.S. delegation for Sochi Games

The United States has named former tennis star Billie Jean King, one of the first prominent athletes to publicly acknowledge her homosexuality, to be in the U.S. delegation to the Winter Olympics......

'Don't boycott Sochi Olympics, wave gay flags instead'

A Democrat senator has reportedly suggested that countries should wave rainbow flags during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia to show support for gay rights, instead of......