The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is testing out drones and their delivery applications in Dubai. Interestingly enough, the first things that the drones will be carrying will be government documents like driver’s licenses. The ...
The European Commission has announced that it believes that American influence over the internet needs to be lessened. Of course a lot of this has to do with the spying being done by the United States government, which was brought...
The Intercept, a new publication headed by Glenn Greenwald, who broke many of the NSA revelations last year, has published a new report regarding the NSA. The report reveals that data from NSA phone surveillance is regularly used ...
Turkey has just passed new legislation that gives them easier access to personal data and also allows them to easily shut down websites. The government is saying that this will actually strengthen privacy and that they are taking ...
Apparently the state of California was also surprised by Google’s barge in the San Fransisco Bay, and have ordered it to be moved. They have told the developers of Treasure Island that the barge does not have the proper perm...
Yesterday, several of the major tech companies released information on the amount of requests they received from the government. Now the numbers still aren’t specific, and deal in ranges, but it does give the public a better...
President Obama announced that leaders in the tech industry have pledged $750 million towards bolstering the access students have to technology. President Obama said that he wanted to make it so that in 5 years 99% of students hav...
Is complete online privacy possible? Probably not. But we can try.
Apparently Apple’s CEO would like to disclose just what data Apple has shared with the American government, but can’t due to the gag order. Apple and other companies have received a lot of criticism over sharing data w...
China’s massive population of internet users had to suffer through an hours-long internet outage recently, and the country’s Great Firewall is taking the blame. Users attempting to visit China’s most popular webs...
The Healthcare.gov website is incredibly insecure, so much so that a white hat hacker was able to find its records of 70,000 people through an advanced Google search. The hacker is David Kennedy, who also started TrustedSec, which...
China has decided to crack down on online anonymity by requiring anyone who posts a video in China to include their real name. China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) sent out a...
It’s quite common for foreign physical goods being taxed when imported, but not so much with digital goods. According to a report out of Nikkei, however, that might be set to change in Japan by 2015. The report says that con...
The US Department of Justice has responded to Apple’s request that Michael Bromwich be removed from his monitoring role — with a letter accusing Apple of “character assassination.” “Apple has chosen a campa...
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