It’s not news that in recent weeks the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted the ban on most electronic devices during take-off and landing. While the FAA now allows tablets and e-readers to be used throughout the entir...
The activist group known as Anonymous, sometimes referred to as hacktivists given that their members are known to hack to into various institutions when trying to get a specific point across, are gaining the FBI’s attention ...
In a move that will be surprising to absolutely no one who has been paying attention to China’s government in the past, the Chinese government is apparently actively considering how they can further control internet usage in...
A court in Washington, D.C. has ordered The US Department of Homeland Security to reveal details on exactly how “Standard Operating Procedure 303” works. With this procedure Homeland Security is able to shut down wirel...
The American government is now taking a much closer look at Bitcoin and hiring a team of experts to help them understand the new currency. The team is comprised of operatives from the Congress, skilled in dealing with the politica...
Even more details are trickling out as far as the extent to which the American government is going to companies such as Google and asking for user information. I emphasize trickling in because right now we only have details on the...
Recently China has held their “Third Plenum”, which was a meeting that took place over a four day period and 204 full Communist Party Central Committee members were in attendance, as well as over 150 alternates. While ...
The City of Los Angeles is accepting proposals for free citywide WiFi. That’s right, after months of batting around the idea, LA is moving forward. Creating a city wide network is not going to be a quick, simple project. In fact t...
Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, made a huge huff and puff a while back when she found out the NSA was spying on her country. But now new revelations have to light that highlights Brazilian spying on diplomats from Russia, Ira...
Like other major tech companies have done since Edward Snowden’s revelations on the NSA, Apple has released its first transparency report on user data. The report outlines the requests for users’ data it received from ...
According to a couple of reports, the UK government is banning iPads from closed-door meetings and other sensitive conversations within parliament. This is an interesting decision considering the fact that earlier this year, the U...
Want a better local search when you are on your smartphone, tablet, or computer? Google does too and the only way you and they are going to get what they want is by getting the local governments to be a little more open with their...
Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Executive Office, wrote in the Wall Street Journal about how he was in favor of the US government passing an anti-discrimination bill that would target discrimination that takes place in the work plac...
In light of the latest round of United States invasion of privacy, India is breathing a sigh of relief. Their 81-year-old prime minister, Monmohan Singh, doesn’t own a cell phone for the NSA to hack. Not only does he not hav...
The American government, which has had to deal with criticism from it’s allies over allegations of spying, is in even more hot water after it was revealed that they are listening in on the phone calls of 35 nation leaders. T...
