Andrew Isidoro looks at a new Google search patent which “seems pretty benign but isn't”.

“Fugitive ex-US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been named a co-winner of a Swedish human rights award”. (Radio Free Liberty Europe)

New research paper analyses "an extensive collection of suspicious files and links targeting activists, opposition members, and non- governmental organizations in the Middle East over the past several years." Download the paper.

Tactical Tech's Maria Xnou, writing in an independent capacity, examines India’s surveillance industry and technologies.

(Image: Global Voices)

"Personal data will be recorded and stored by the Internet provider, along with information about the devices used". Report from Global Voices.

"The rapid advance of the militant Islamic State movement in Syria and Iraq this year has been notable not just for its barbarity and brutality but for its deft and chilling social media operation." (The Guardian)

"Jamie Bartlett's encounters with the characters behind subversive currencies and online erotica make fascinating reading, but The Dark Net is really about us." Book review by The New Scientist.

NSA built a "'Google-like' search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats."(The Intercept)

A portrait of the director of security for First Look Media, ex-Google hacker Morgan Marquis-Boire.

(Screenshot of cat video, The Intercept)

New research findings, published by First Look's The Intercept.