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U.S. Senators threaten Apple and Facebook with mandated encryption backdoors
U.S. senators grilled Apple Inc and Facebook Inc executives over their encryption practices on Tuesday and threatened to regulate the technology unless…
How I dropped Dropbox
There are so many Dropbox integrations available that the service seems essential. It’s not…
Google killing Allo messaging service
Allo, once the vanguard platform of Google’s plans for messaging, will officially shut down…
Apple to Australia: This is no time to weaken encryption; access only for ‘good guys’ is a false premise
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’
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’
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
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
A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials…
Apple highlights user privacy as Facebook exec steps down
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
A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…
Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy
Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…
Facebook’s surveillance machine
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…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
The problem isn’t Cambridge Analytica: It’s Facebook
Cambridge Analytica garnered headlines across the world on Friday as Facebook formally suspended the company…
Delete your Facebook: The only way to win the social game is not to play
Facebook has been caught allowing the personal data of fifty million users — 50,000,000 — get siphoned off by political data company Cambrige Analytica…
How you access the super creepy data that Facebook has on you
Don’t be fooled by the ‘bring the world closer together’ motto: if Facebook’s here, it’s only to make money by selling ads…
Amazon’s Alexa is randomly laughing and nobody knows why
Some Alexa users may feel like they’ve been dropped into a science fiction story about an artificial intelligence gone awry…
Facebook asks users: Should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook whether pedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website…
Bill Gates thinks Apple should unlock iPhones at the government’s request
In an interview with Axios, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government…
Study: Facebook is for old people
Facebook lost 2.8 million users under the age of 25 last year…
Twitter sort of denies allegations of employees reading direct messages
On Monday, conservative activist and filmmaker James O’Keefe published undercover footage of Twitter engineers…
Mark Zuckerberg is fighting to save Facebook; announces major change to News Feed
On Thursday, Facebook announced a major change to News Feed, its central feature…
Facebook developing ‘Portal’ gadget which will let it put microphones and cameras in people’s homes
The oppressive rulers of Oceania used devices called telescreens to closely monitor and repress citizens…
FBI forensic expert blasts Apple ‘jerks’ for encrypting iPhones
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’
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasingly unable to access data from some electronic devices…
Facebook is giving the US government more and more data
Every year, Facebook gets tens of thousands of requests for data from governments worldwide…
Google Home Mini spies on everything reviewer said 24/7, transmits recordings to Google’s servers
It was waking up thousands of times a day, recording, then sending those recordings to Google…
37,000 users unwittingly installed a malicious Chrome web browser extension from Google’s Web Store
A fraudulent browser extension was downloaded by 37,000 Chrome users after it sneaked past Google’s Web Store vetting processes…
Facebook plans to spend as much as Apple, up to $1 billion, on original shows in 2018
Facebook Inc. is loosening its purse strings in its drive to become a major hub for video…
Young people are leaving Facebook
This marks the first time eMarketer has ever predicted a decline in Facebook usage for any age group…
iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments
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
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’
Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…
Why Google Assistant can’t beat Apple’s Siri for iPhone users
Some people think Google’s virtual assistant beats Siri in reliability and capability…
Google Assistant features that Apple’s Siri can’t currently match
Earlier this week, Google finally put the Google Assistant onto iPhones..
Alphabet to push Google Assistant to iPhone as standalone app via Apple’s App Store
Google is set to announce a version of its AI-powered assistant for Apple Inc.’s iPhone as soon as Wednesday…
President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor
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
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’
All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…
