Britain unveiled plans on Wednesday for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit…
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Do not let the government snoops weaken encryption
The bill unveiled by the UK on Wednesday does not ban companies from offering strong encryption…
Apple can’t – and won’t – decrypt your iPhone: Why it matters
Governments use a variety of means — sometimes de facto or later found to be illegal or unconstitutional in the country in which it’s occurring…
Government pressure for Apple to bypass encryption reduced as iPhone owner enters guilty plea
Jun Feng, a defendant in a criminal case, has entered a guilty plea, removing pressure from a New York court…
Judge compares government request for Apple to access users’ iPhone data to execution order
Ordering Apple to access data against its will would be akin to making a reluctant drug company carry out a lethal injection…
U.S. judge expresses doubts over forcing Apple to unlock iPhone
U.S. judge on Monday expressed strong doubts that he had the legal authority to order Apple Inc…
US DOJ claims Apple lacks legal standing to refuse iPhone unlock order
A federal filing has shed some light on the court matter involving Apple’s unwillingness to unlock…
Apple tells U.S. judge it can’t unlock iPhones running iOS 8 or higher
Apple Inc. told a federal judge that it ‘would be impossible’ to access user data on a locked iPhone…
Apple CEO Cook defends encryption, opposes back door for government spies
Apple Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and the director of the National Security Agency squared off on Monday…
With Apple court order, activist federal judge seeks to fuel debate about data encryption
A federal judge in New York is seeking to expand to the courts the hot debate over whether tech companies like Apple…
Judge declines to order Apple to disable security on device seized by U.S. government
A federal magistrate in Brooklyn is temporarily refusing to order Apple to disable security on a device seized by the U.S. government…
Apple buys 11 map startups, but still trails Google Maps
HopStop users are mourning the demise of the go-to transit app. Apple bought HopStop in 2013…
Apple acquires Mapsense
Mapense builds tools for analyzing and visualizing location data…
Apple refused to give iMessages to the U.S. government
The Justice Department obtained a court order this summer demanding that Apple turn over, in real time, text messages…
NY Times Op-Ed calls for Apple to decrypt iPhones for law enforcement
Last September, Apple and Google, whose operating systems…
Edward Snowden explains why Apple should continue to fight the government on encryption
As the Obama administration campaign to stop Apple…
Obama administration war against Apple just got uglier
The Obama administration’s central strategy against Apple…
Apple’s iOS encryption has ‘petrified’ the U.S. administration, governments around the world
Stronger encryption in Apple’s iPhones has ‘petrified’ the U.S. government because…
The CIA campaign to steal Apple’s secrets
Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort…
Apple’s kowtow to China undermines Obama’s tough talk on snooping or something
US president Barack Obama was sharply critical of China’s newest security demands…
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…
How to remove location data from your iPhone photos before sharing them
This method will remove all location info from the photos…
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…
Researchers discover flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls, intercept text messages
German researchers have discovered security flaws that could let hackers, spies and criminals listen…
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…
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…
Ex-NSA lawyer says encryption could ‘BlackBerry’ Apple and Google
The battle over encryption of consumer internet users’ data…
U.S. NSA director makes another visit to Silicon Valley
Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, said on Monday…
Edward Snowden’s privacy tips: ‘Get rid of Dropbox,” avoid Facebook and Google
According to Edward Snowden, people who care about their privacy should stay away from Google, Facebook, and Dropbox…
Tim Berners-Lee: You should own your personal data, not Google, Facebook, Amazon, and advertisers
The data we create about ourselves should be owned by each of us…
Apple’s iPhone encryption is a godsend, even if government snoops and cops hate it
It took the upheaval of the Edward Snowden revelations to make clear to everyone…
Short-timer U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder blasts Apple for protecting users’ privacy against government overreach
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged Apple to preserve law-enforcement access to smartphones…
Signaling post-Snowden era, Apple’s iPhone, iPad lock out N.S.A.
This distinguishes Apple from companies that make a profit from collecting and selling users’ personal data to advertisers…
What if Osama bin Laden had an iPhone?
Apple’s decision to release a mobile operating system that is so thoroughly encrypted that the company cannot unlock its devices for authorities…
FBI blasts Apple for protective users’ privacy by locking government, police out of iPhones and iPads
FBI Director James B. Comey sharply criticized Apple on Thursday…
Apple thinks different about privacy
Your data is your data,not something to be monetized…
