Facebook Claims “Rogue Employees” May Have Been Biased Against Conservatives
Facebook has been fighting allegations that the social media site harbors a political bias against conservatives, but on Monday, the company announced that...
Computers
Founder of Ubuntu Linux: No Back Doors; No Weakening of Encryption
As Microsoft continues its trend of converting Windows into an operating system of spyware,...
Facebook Filtering Users’ Timelines Stokes Concerns of Censorship and Data-Mining
Facebook has a long and checkered past concerning the way the company decides what...
Net Neutrality Will Regulate Internet Rates Despite Promises
When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler launched the opening salvo in the battle to regulate...
Ubuntu 16.04 Brings More Privacy and Big Changes to the Desktop
The release of Ubuntu 16.04 last week is good news for computer users who...
Real Reason Behind Apple Case: War on Encryption
After months of legal battles, a public relations war, and congressional testimony over whether...
Reddit Quietly Warns Users of Surveillance Request
Last week, a major player in the social media forum world used a legal...
FBI v. Apple Case: Government Smoke and Mirrors
After a month of claiming — in court documents, sworn testimony, and public statements — that...
FBI, DOJ Postpone Hearing in San Bernardino iPhone Case
The FBI and Apple will not get their day in court. At least not...
Apple Engineers Could Refuse to Help FBI in San Bernardino Case
In the FBI vs. Apple battle over encryption, Apple's lawyers have said that the...
Obama Ignores Experts; Calls for Backdoors for Encryption
As the FBI and Apple wage battle over the rights of private citizens to...
FBI vs. Apple: More Than Meets The Eye
The FBI said it had no choice but to seek a court order to...
McAfee: Gov’t Backdoors Are Destroying National Security
As the Apple/FBI case heats up, the surveillance hawks continue to insist that backdoors...
Apple, FBI Testify Before Congress About Encryption
Representatives of both Apple and the FBI appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on...
What’s Really at Stake in the Apple Encryption Case?
There is a lot at stake in the case of the FBI demanding that...
Trump’s Apple Boycott Misses the Mark
Donald Trump has waded into the battle between the Justice Department and Apple over...
Fighting for Privacy: Apple Resists Order to Decrypt Terrorist’s iPhone
Earlier this week, a District Court Judge ordered Apple to build a backdoor into...
Ousted Mozilla CEO Is Changing the Web Again
After Brendan Eich resigned as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation amid controversy when it...
Manhattan DA Fails to Make the Case Against Encryption
Last month Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. released a report claiming that new...
N.C. Senator Calls for “Backdoors” in Encryption
Last week, Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote...