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How the NSA tapped AT&T’s network
In 2002, an AT&T technician named Mark Klein discovered that the National Security Agency had installed a secret monitoring facility…
U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA data collection programs
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…
U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA’s data collection programs; Apple opposes over ‘unacceptable loophole ‘
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…
Plaintiff blasts Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel settlement deal in Silicon Valley poaching case
A class action plaintiff in the Silicon Valley anti-poaching lawsuit…
Apple to government authorities: ‘Show warrant to get data’
Apple will let its customers know if a government or law enforcement agency has requested information…
Apple, others to defy U.S. government authorities, notify customers of secret data demands
U.S. tech companies will ignore the instructions stamped on the fronts of subpoenas…
How Apple crushes Google in the fall of 2015 following a ‘One More Thing’ keynote pre-recorded by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was livid when he learned about Google plans…
Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe settle antitrust hiring case for $324 million
If the Silicon Valley-based technology firms hadn’t settled, they would have faced…
Apple, Google, other firms could pay ‘blindingly high’ $9 billion in anti-poaching suit
A class-action lawsuit from tech sector employees against employers including Apple…
As U.S. government discusses expanding digital searches, ACLU sounds caution
Late last month, we reported on new federal efforts to gain an expanded ability…
Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA spying
Top executives from Facebook, Google and other tech giants will…
Occupy founder and current Google employee, calls on Obama to resign, appoint Eric Schmidt ‘CEO of America’
One of the co-founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement…
Apple co-founder Woz and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee voice support for Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
US NSA used Facebook to hack into computers
The National Security Agency is breaking into…
Rand Paul: ‘What you do on your cellphone is none of their damned business!’
Paul put his concerns about the NSA on front pages with a class-action lawsuit…
Orwellian: UK government, with aid from US NSA, intercepted webcam images from millions of users
Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency…
Google’s Android really isn’t ‘open’ at all
Google has imposed strict restrictions on device makers…
Twitter threatens to sue Obama administration over government surveillance requests
Twitter says it is prepared to sue the Obama administration…
Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
A Norwegian member of parliament nominated former U.S. National Security Agency…
U.S gov’t reaches deal with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn to allow data disclosures on national security orders
The Justice Department on Monday reached agreements with…
U.S. NSA watching, tracking phone users with Google Maps
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been…
Apple issues update on U.S. NSA and law enforcement orders
Apple Inc. has released the following statement…
Google exec boosts GOP candidates, conservative groups’ data efforts
Google is working to diversify its political footprint…
Apple’s Tim Cook on U.S government surveillance: ‘There is no back door, the government doesn’t have access to our servers’
Cook touches on his concerns regarding the NSA and their deeply controversial PRISM surveillance program…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer calls on Obama administration to provide greater U.S. NSA transparency
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo Inc.’s chief executive…
Why Google really is evil
I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this…
Obama’s NSA proposals fall far short of real change
The White House’s tepid plan aims to calm the public, not curtail U.S. government surveillance programs…
U.S. NSA devises radio pathway into computers to conduct surveillance, launch cyberattacks
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers…
The NSA, Apple’s iPhone and a whole lot of bad reporting
With the treasure trove of classified information Edward Snowden…
U.S. NSA seeks to build quantum computer to crack most types of encryption
In room-size metal boxes secure against electromagnetic leaks…
Jacob Appelbaum’s extraordinarily disingenuous claims about NSA penetration of Apple iPhones
Jacob Appelbaum has yet another revelation from the Edward Snowden trove…
Apple: We’ve never worked with U.S. NSA to create a backdoor in any of our products, including iPhone
Apple just responded to newly released documents claiming that the U.S. National Security Agency…
Ex-NSA chief calls for Obama to reject commission’s recommendations to rein in NSA surveillance
etired general Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency…
How the U.S. NSA remotely bugs your Apple iPhone
Following up on the latest stunning revelations released yesterday…
Report: U.S. NSA intercepts computers during shipping to install surveillance malware
The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon…
U.S. government panel recommends new limits on NSA spooks
A panel of presidential advisers who reviewed the National Security Agency…
Tech leaders challenge Obama over NSA surveillance at White House meeting
A White House meeting meant to get technology executives…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Obama tech meeting was ‘great’
Obama today faced a group of executives including Apple’s Tim Cook…
Obama to face Apple CEO Tim Cook, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, other tech execs pressing for NSA limits
Obama today will face a group of executives including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook…
Obama to meet Apple’s Tim Cook, other tech execs to discuss healthcare.gov website fiasco on Tuesday
Obama will meet executives from leading technology companies like Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook…
Google’s Eric Schmidt loses touch with reality
Not long ago, Eric Schmidt, late of Apple’s board of directors…
