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Obama to propose curbs on NSA spying
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to propose curbs on the National Security Agency…
Obama stuck with BlackBerry, says not allowed an iPhone ‘for security reasons’
US President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday he was not allowed to have an iPhone…
NSA spying risks $35 billion in U.S. technology sales
The trust that’s threatened is essential to U.S. technology companies…
Apple iPhones phased out of German government in favor of encrypted phones to block U.S. NSA spying
Members of the German government will use encrypted phones…
U.S. Rep. Goodlatte sees surveillance restrictions passing Congress
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte…
How and why Silicon Valley turned on Obama
In the months leading up to the 2012 presidential election, Silicon Valley…
Apple releases ‘Report on Government Information Requests’
We believe that our customers have a right to understand how their personal information is handled…
Google’s 8th-ranked D.C. lobbying machine flexes new political power
Google Inc. is moving its Washington office closer to Capitol Hill…
U.S. Senate panel passes plan to continue mass surveillance; Apple, other tech firms, civil-liberties groups oppose
The Senate Intelligence Committee approved legislation…
U.S. NSA secretly infiltrated Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications…
Apple reiterates: iMessage is not architected to allow us to read messages
Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance…
Obama administration decides NSA spying is ‘essential,’ but oversight of NSA is not
While the National Security Agency (NSA) has largely escaped…
What email provider Lavabit did to avoid giving the US government its data
The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail…
What if Marissa Mayer went to jail?
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer presented her company’s side of fighting the National Security Agency…
How the U.S. NSA secures its Macs from snoopers
The U.S. National Security Agency’s “Hardening Tips for Mac OS X” manual…
German government: Windows 8 contains U.S. NSA snooping back doors; too dangerous to use
The National Security Agency’s snooping practices may be costing American companies a lot of money…
Report: NSA can see 75% of U.S. Web traffic, can snare emails
The National Security Agency has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans’ Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed…
Apple CEO Tim Cook, tech execs meet with Obama to talk surveillance
Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook…
PRISM: How to fly under the radar
Don’t listen to charlatans like Eric Schmidt who insist that you have nothing to fear…
FBI can remotely activate microphones in Android smartphones, source says
Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely…
NSA can read email, online chats, track Web browsing without warrant, documents leaked by Edward Snowden show
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search…
Momentum builds against U.S. government surveillance
The movement to crack down on government surveillance started…
Obama administration demands Web firms turn over user account passwords
The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users…
U.S. House rejects effort to curb NSA surveillance powers, 205-217
The House on Wednesday rejected an attempt to curtail the National Security Agency…
Obama administration scrambles to shut down imminent U.S. House vote to defund NSA spying
A showdown is set to take place in the US House of Representatives today…
Obama administration demands master encryption keys from firms in order to conduct electronic surveillance against Internet users
The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies…
Obama administration petitioned to not buy products from foreign companies that have infringed upon US company patents
The Obama administration faces a new petition…
Apple, Google, dozens of others push Obama administration to disclose U.S. surveillance requests
Dozens of companies, non-profits and trade organizations including Apple…
South Korean Samsung said to be near deals to supply Android devices to U.S. FBI and U.S. Navy
Samsung Electronics Co. is close to signing deals for its devices with two U.S. government agencies…
Apple teams with tech companies, civil liberties groups to demand dramatically increased transparency around U.S. government surveillance
The number of government requests for information about their users…
Edward Snowden seen as whistle-blower by majority of U.S. registered voters
The view of Snowden as a whistle-blower rather than traitor predominated among almost every group…
How Microsoft handed U.S. NSA, FBI, CIA access to users’ encrypted video, audio, and text communications
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted,,,
Google has already inserted some U.S. NSA code into Android
Tech giants listed as part of the National Security Agency’s Prism…
Those who brush-off NSA surveillance because it’s ‘just metadata’ don’t have the slightest idea what metadata is
One of the key themes that has come out from the revelations concerning NSA surveillance…
Black-box testing reveals Apple can provide users’ iMessage or FaceTime conversations to NSA
Ever since the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program came to light…
Steve Wozniak: NSA leaker Edward Snowden ‘is a hero because this came from his heart’
Computer whiz Steve Wozniak is more than a little distressed…
DuckDuckGo search engine surges 33% in wake of PRISM scandal
The ‘anonymous’ search engine DuckDuckGo is getting a boost off the PRISM scandal…
Yahoo: Since December 2012, we have received up to 13,000 U.S. gov’t requests for customer data
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Ron Bell, General Counsel, have issued…
Snowden: Apple, Facebook, Google can resist U.S. NSA
Did Steve Jobs tell the NSA spooks to go pound sand while Tim Cook folded like a cheap suit…
Apple: Since December 2012, we have received U.S. gov’t requests for customer data for up to 10,000 accounts
Two weeks ago, when technology companies were accused of indiscriminately sharing customer data…
Nine companies, including Apple, tied to PRISM, Obama to be smacked with class-action lawsuit
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said during a Sunday appearance…
