Tag: Big Brother

FBI Director Christopher Wray continues pushing for encryption back doors

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · 6:00 pm · 10 Comments

The encryption war is quiet now, but the murky back-and-forth between…
EFF calls on Apple to let users truly encrypt iCloud backups as part of ‘fix it already’ initiative

Thursday, February 28, 2019 · 4:30 pm · 2 Comments

When data is backed up to iCloud, it’s encrypted so that Apple, and not just the user, can access it…
Cellebrite, the Feds’ favorite iPhone hacking tool, is selling on ebay for $100 – and it’s leaking data

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 · 5:01 pm · 3 Comments

hen eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K…
FBI: End-to-end encryption like Apple’s ‘infects’ law enforcement

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 · 11:00 am · 5 Comments

Nearly three years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation abandoned an effort to force Apple Inc…
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others denounce Australia’s ‘deeply flawed’ anti-encryption law

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 · 1:32 pm · 5 Comments

Apple, Google and Microsoft have denounced the Australian government’s decision to pass an anti-encryption law that…
Backdoors: Australia passes laws allowing spies and police to snoop on encrypted communications

Friday, December 7, 2018 · 10:01 am · 18 Comments

Australia Thursday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications…
Apple to Australia: This is no time to weaken encryption; access only for ‘good guys’ is a false premise

Saturday, October 13, 2018 · 12:12 pm · 57 Comments

Apple has filed its formal opposition to a new bill currently being proposed by the Australian government…
Apple urges Australian government not to destroy encryption with ‘backdoors’

Friday, October 12, 2018 · 5:37 pm · 8 Comments

Apple has submitted its formal response to a draft bill undergoing debate by the Australian government…
Apple, other tech giants denounce proposed Australian law seeking encryption ‘backdoor’

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 · 8:35 am · 8 Comments

Four global tech giants – Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon – will oppose an Australian law…
Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 · 12:02 pm · 16 Comments

Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…
More proof that iPhone backdoors are a stupid idea: Massive cache of law enforcement personnel data leaks

Monday, July 2, 2018 · 9:30 am · 21 Comments

A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials…
The Boston Globe Editorial Board: Break up Google

Saturday, June 16, 2018 · 12:02 pm · 24 Comments

Never in the history of the world has a single company had so much control over what people know and think…
Apple highlights user privacy as Facebook exec steps down

Thursday, June 14, 2018 · 5:35 pm · 8 Comments

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook takes every opportunity to highlight his company’s commitment to privacy…
Bipartisan ‘Secure Data Act’ would make it illegal for U.S. government to demand backdoors

Friday, May 11, 2018 · 2:55 pm · 9 Comments

A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…
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…
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…
Bill Gates thinks Apple should unlock iPhones at the government’s request

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 · 11:56 am · 62 Comments

In an interview with Axios, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government…
FBI forensic expert blasts Apple ‘jerks’ for encrypting iPhones

Thursday, January 11, 2018 · 12:01 pm · 31 Comments

Ever since Apple made encryption default on the iPhone, the FBI has been waging a war against encryption…
FBI Director Wray calls inability to access electronic devices an ‘urgent public safety issue’

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 · 5:00 pm · 48 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasingly unable to access data from some electronic devices…
iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 · 2:44 pm · 11 Comments

Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…
Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 · 5:17 pm · 10 Comments

Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…
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…
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…
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…
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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