Dec 21
The latest installment of the ongoing slow release of the whistleblower Edward Snowden’s cache of 1.7 million stolen NSA documents has revealed over 1,000 targets of the NSA’s and GCHQ’s … Continue reading
Dec 18
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have positively confirmed the long-discussed ability of government entities and private parties to remotely activate a webcam without the warning light turning on. While this … Continue reading
Dec 18
The White House has released a lengthy report written by a five-member panel recommending sweeping reforms of the NSA. Included among the 46 recommendations by the “Review Group on Intelligence … Continue reading
Dec 17
A veritable pantheon of top-ranking emissaries from some of the largest and most powerful tech companies in the United States descended on the White House today to press the Obama … Continue reading
Dec 16
AT&T has been awarded a patent that would let the company track subscriber browsing behavior, assign them a “reputation score”, and then block “high-risk” subscribers from being able to access file-sharing services. The patent is called “Methods, devices and computer program products for regulating network activity using a subscriber scoring system”. In other words, the […]
Dec 16
This week in Washington a district judge by the name of Richard Leon has ruled that the NSA‘s data collection program on phone call data collection is unconstitutional. This ruling came amid a court case which had two American citizens filing suit against the National Security Administration to stop any and all data collection programs. […]
Dec 16
A federal judge just ruled the NSA’s widespread collection of phone records is most likely unconstitutional and gave the go ahead for plaintiffs to file a lawsuit. And pending appeal, the judge said that the data collection should be halted. Of course, until that appeal goes through, the NSA will continue spying.
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Dec 14
And now for your weekend Snowden update. Edward Snowden, as you may know if you haven’t been living in Plato’s cave, is the 30-year-old former NSA employee who stole and leaked “thousands” of documents revealing some of the incredible extent to which the NSA and other international spy agencies go to spy on Americans, Chinese, […]
Dec 14
A pension fund has sued IBM for $12.9 billion in revenue losses caused by the recent revelation of its partnership with the US Congress and the NSA to spy on Chinese customers. Many of China’s companies pulled out of business arrangements with IBM after it became known that IBM was using its technology to collect […]
Dec 14
The Boston Police Department has suspended their use of license plate scanners for now. It seems the optical character recognition technology was working just fine, but the department wasn’t following up on all of the hot crime fighting leads the technology was generating. The scanners collected about four million plate IDs a year, prompting onlookers […]
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