Trading on Wall Street is basically a huge game of poker and it would be kind of hard to bluff or cover your strategy if Bloomberg reporters were watching your account to see which resources you were accessing on Bloomberg terminals. So, you assume that they don't abuse their company affiliation, because it would be shady and weird. Aka they are definitely doing that. Read More >>

Following a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, America's National Security Agency has been forced to make public a book it produced called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research. Understandably, it's full of gems. Read More >>

There's a horrible and growing trend in the darkest corners of the internet: using Remote Administration Tools, hackers are increasingly taking control of webcams around the world. Read More >>

You know full well that all the innocent crap you spam out to social networks can be used to pinpoint you, highlight your friends and track your favourite places, building up a perfect record of your little life. Defence specialist Raytheon is automating this data harvesting process with a view to patenting a comprehensive tracking tool. Read More >>

Google's about to be hit by a huge privacy storm in the UK, thanks to a group legal case that claims it ignored privacy rules to track up to 10 million iPhone, iPad and Safari users. Read More >>

Here's an odd fact. HMRC has the right to monitor what websites you use, see where and when phone calls were placed and know the date and time of your emails. And it made over 14,000 of these snooping requests last year. Read More >>

Bitdefender's Clueful, once an iOS app in its own right that Apple apparently took offence to, is now back as a webapp. Use it to find out if your apps are spying on you, storing your personal information, and sending it anywhere you might not want them to. Essential for the paranoid; interesting for the curious. [Clueful via TUAW] Read More >>

As if Instagram wasn't already an amazing way to snoop on what people are doing around the entire planet, a new website called The Beat lets you see exactly where the photographs were taken, too. Read More >>

When you pay to use a computer, you don't expect it to be tracking your each and every digital move as a result. But that's exactly what happened to Aaron's Sale and Leasing customers — who had their rental computers snooped on in incredible detail. Read More >>

Google's released its twice-yearly transparency report, and there's one message within it that rings loud and clear: the US government is spying on us harder than ever. Read More >>

Kinect is tonnes of fun. Have you ever played Dance Central 3? Great game. But according to a newly discovered patent, the Xbox add-on is also maybe spying on you, which is totally not cool, man. Read More >>

Fresh from attempting to recruit amateur cyber defenders into its fold, GCHQ has dropped a morsel of its dastardly plans today -- it's interested in your social side.  It wants your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, even your Pintrest, and it plans to trawl through the data in an effort to "find meaningful patterns and relationships in large volumes of data." Sounds a bit like Google. Read More >>

Business Insider is reporting that Apple's launch of iOS 6 brings with it not just Passbook and bad maps, but a new means of tracking user activity, too. Read More >>

Your brand new YouView box is going to be tracking your every move, err, watch. The internet-connected box will tell broadcasters that, yes, you do actually watch I'm a Celebrity and EastEnders, no matter how many times you tell people you don't. Read More >>

Turkish authorities announced Tuesday that they have recovered the body of a daring Israeli spy—replete with feathers. And a belly full of bees. Read More >>