The UK government has struck a deal with Microsoft that will see support for XP extended for a year after the April 8, 2014 deadline. The agreement cost the government £5.5 million, or roughly US$9.2 million. The agreement was con...
These days, most major companies like Google have readily available transparency reports for the public to see. They contain details like how many requests for data were issued in a given time period, or the legal process behind i...
ZunZuneo, the ‘Cuban Twitter’ which at one point had as many as 40,000 users, was actually created in secret by the United States government as a way to eventually inspire unrest in the Cuban population. The idea was t...
The world is slowly becoming a place where privacy does not matter, where people get to wear fancy glasses with cameras ready to take your picture. Well, you can fight back if you have $14.99 to spare by purchasing, Justice Cap. W...
Leland Yee, who is a California state senator and vocal advocate against violence in video games, has been arrested on charges of bribery and corruption. Yee made headline in 2005 for sponsoring a bill that would make it a crimina...
Former US President, Jimmy Carter, believes the NSA is spying on him. Instead of taking his chances, he tells NBC in an interview that he goes with a more traditional form of communication instead of electronic communication: R...
Google made an announcement on its blog today that is sure to make most if not all Gmail users happy. Amidst all the news on government surveillance, Google will now be enhancing its encryption for Gmail. Whenever a user checks th...
Looking for the right charger for your mobile device in Europe might soon become very easy. The European Union has recently voted in favor of introducing a single universal mobile charger for all mobile devices. The legislation is...
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has accused the CIA of hacking into Senate computers and looking for an internal agency interrogation report being compiled by the committee. ...
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has committed more funding towards to the Internet of things, which is a concept that involves having sensors which connect to the Internet in almost everything. Cameron announced earlier...
The Japanese government has decided that Bitcoin is not a currency, and therefore those in charge of regulations may not get into any trouble concerning the $500 million loss of Bitcoin that Mt Gox recently suffered before shuttin...
Patrick Rock, who is an advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the deputy director of policy, has resigned from his post on Monday because he was arrested in February for being in possession of child pornography. Rock, who...
The American government has filed a lawsuit against Sprint, claiming that the company overcharged the government by $21 million for the wiretap operations that Sprint allowed. The US government believes that Sprint went overboard ...
Due to the lawsuits that have been filed against the National Security Agency (NSA), the American government wants to keep the records from the NSA bulk metadata collection program past the five years the NSA is allowed to keep an...
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky who describes himself as a “constitutional conservative” is a known libertarian, has filed a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama, as well as others who are ...
