Tag: Barack Obama
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The Obamas sign deal to produce shows for Netflix after flirting with Apple
Monday, May 21, 2018 · 4:47 pm · 22 Comments
Former President Barack Obama formally announced on Monday a multiyear production deal with Netflix…
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Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy
Monday, April 16, 2018 · 12:03 pm · 20 Comments
Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…
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Facebook’s surveillance machine
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 · 11:30 am · 19 Comments
Facebook’s business model involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 · 4:50 pm · 27 Comments
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
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U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 · 10:27 am · 17 Comments
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
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Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
Monday, March 19, 2018 · 5:32 pm · 30 Comments
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
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The problem isn’t Cambridge Analytica: It’s Facebook
Monday, March 19, 2018 · 11:09 am · 36 Comments
Cambridge Analytica garnered headlines across the world on Friday as Facebook formally suspended the company…
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The U.S. government can now (probably) unlock every iPhone model in existence
Monday, February 26, 2018 · 2:01 pm · 57 Comments
In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement…
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A test used by NASA assessed top leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump
Friday, February 23, 2018 · 9:46 am · 49 Comments
Ever wanted to get inside the heads of the world’s top leaders?
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After Trump administration sunsets DACA, Apple CEO Cook vows to work with U.S. Congress to protect ‘Dreamers’ in email to employees
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 · 3:02 pm · 113 Comments
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, more commonly referred to as DACA, is a controversial Obama-era immigration program…
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President Trump ends DACA, but gives Congress 6-month window to deliver solution; Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘stands with’ 250 DACA-protected employees
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 · 1:25 pm · 64 Comments
The Trump administration on Tuesday formally announced the end of DACA…
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Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 · 2:33 pm · 32 Comments
Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…
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President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 · 6:46 pm · 110 Comments
President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…
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After U.S. gov’t refuses to declassify sum paid for FBI’s San Bernardino iPhone hack, Senator Dianne Feinstein inadvertently reveals it
Monday, May 8, 2017 · 12:00 pm · 12 Comments
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone…
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Why Congress’s rejection of proposed FCC data rules will not affect your privacy in the slightest
Friday, March 31, 2017 · 4:21 pm · 36 Comments
Congress was right to disapprove them…
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FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 · 4:01 pm · 103 Comments
All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…
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FBI Director James Comey cancels SXSW 2017 appearance
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 · 5:35 pm · 35 Comments
FBI Director James Comey will be unable to attend SXSW due to “scheduling conflicts” that…
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News organizations ask judge to force FBI to reveal how much it paid to unlock San Bernadino Islamic terrorist’s iPhone
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 · 2:44 pm · 9 Comments
Last year, the battle between Apple and the FBI dominated headlines…
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Proving Apple’s assertion that there are no good backdoors, hacker dumps iOS cracking tools allegedly stolen from Cellebrite
Thursday, February 2, 2017 · 3:55 pm · 10 Comments
The hacker responsible has publicly released a cache of files allegedly stolen from Cellebrite…
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A hacker just proved that Apple was right to worry about creating a backdoor to the iPhone
Friday, January 13, 2017 · 10:25 am · 21 Comments
Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…
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What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 · 1:55 pm · 16 Comments
Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….
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FBI wants to get into locked Apple iPhone of Minnesota Islamic terrorist Dahir Adan
Friday, October 7, 2016 · 11:00 am · 21 Comments
When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter…
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British PM Theresa May launches thinly veiled attacks on Apple and Facebook
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 · 10:55 am · 38 Comments
Theresa May launched a thinly veiled attack on Apple and Facebook…
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After calling for less security in Apple iPhone case, feckless FBI calls for more security as two state voter databases hacked
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 · 3:00 pm · 13 Comments
The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases…
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As Donald Trump tours Louisiana, Apple encourages donations for flood relief
Friday, August 19, 2016 · 3:12 pm · 118 Comments
Republican nominee Donald Trump today landed in Louisiana to witness first-hand the devastation wrought by flooding…
