Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort…
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Apple CEO Cook: Unlike some other companies, Apple won’t invade your right to privacy
Apple’s Tim Cook has been on tour…
Apple CEO Tim Cook advocates privacy, says terrorists should be ‘eliminated’
None of us should accept that the government or a company or anybody should have access to all of our private information…
New Snowden documents show how the Britain’s GCHQ tracked iPhone users
Previous leaks have revealed specific NSA exploits used to compromise the famously malware-resistant iPhone….
New York prosecutor calls for law to fight Apple data encryption
Federal and state governments should consider passing laws that forbid iPhones…
Why Apple, Fox News, and Microsoft are suddenly working together
It’s not every day you see Microsoft and Apple or Fox News and NPR going to bat…
Apple supports Microsoft in U.S. data-privacy dispute
Some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Apple Inc…
Apple drops Google Maps for Apple Maps on iCloud.com
Apple appears to have finally dropped Google Maps…
U.S. feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, invoke 18th-century All Writs Act
Newly discovered court documents from two federal criminal cases in New York and California…
U.S. DOJ turns to 225-year-old law to force Apple, Google to unlock password-protected devices
Prosecutors last month persuaded a federal magistrate to order…
DOJ warns Apple: iPhone encryption will lead to a child dying
The No. 2 official at the Justice Department recently warned top Apple executives…
U.S. Senate blocks legislation on curbing NSA’s bulk data collection program
The Senate blocked legislation that would have limited the National Security Agency…
Apple job listing hints at switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps in Find My iPhone
The position for a ‘Maps Web Developer’ is seeking an individual experienced in…
Apple replacing Google one step at a time
It is clear with every new move, Apple is setting a new direction…
Cook, Zuckerberg, Mayer, other tech CEOs ask U.S. Senate to restrict U.S. spying
A group of prominent technology company CEOs, including the most prominent, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Tim Cook likely to be asked to testify at NSA case in Germany
German lawmakers may call the heads of the largest U.S. technology companies…
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…
AmNav sues Apple for using a GPS-based Maps application on their iOS devices
American Navigation Systems, Inc. has filed a patent infringement 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…
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…
Google’s sneaky new privacy change affects 85% of iPhone users
What Google really wants is for everybody to be signed in to their Google accounts all the time…
Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA spying
Top executives from Facebook, Google and other tech giants will…
Apple Maps: 18 months later
Apple messed up big time when switching to a home-brewed mapping system…
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…
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…
ZDNet: Apple Maps’ worldview is now better than Google Maps
Apple Maps is back with a vengeance and set to take Google down a few notches…
Apple Maps blasts off: Cue the antitrust lawsuits?
Apple Maps is on a tear, taking market share from Google Maps…
Apple Maps puts the hurt on Google Maps
Apple’s Maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users…
Apple Maps one year later: The good, the bad, and the future
Some love it, some tolerate it, some ridicule it…
Apple’s iOS 7 3D Maps make Google, Nokia offerings look old fashioned
Maps in iOS 7 will gain a full screen mode that emphasizes how Apple’s 3D Flyover…
Apple Maps vs. Google Maps 2.0 for iOS
As Apple prepares its latest enhancements to Maps with iOS 7…
Google officially acquires Waze reportedly for $1.3 billion
Apple was likely never in the running seriously, except perhaps to bid up the price on Google…
Why Waze is a hot takeover target
There have been rumors for the past few months that a big tech firm…
