Former Apple exec claims the company spied on his text messages

A former Apple executive is claiming the company spied on his text messages before suing him. In February, Gerard Williams III, who spent almost 10 years working on mobile device chips at Apple, left the company. The same month, he joined NuVia Inc -...

Russia stops at nothing to silence Telegram

The protracted fight between the Russian government and encrypted messaging app Telegram is coming to an end. Last week, the country's court granted a request for the app to be banned, enabling officials to begin work on booting it out of the country...

Tech Titans Talk Life-Changing Gadgets And NSA Reform in Davos


Tech titans took the stage on the first morning at the World Economic Forum for a panel focused on changes in the digital landscape: bandwidth, privacy, data and business transformation. The speakers...

Tech industry: Obama’s NSA reforms ‘insufficient’


Tech industry group calls Obama's NSA speech 'thoughtful, but insufficient' SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama's speech on U.S....
    






NSA Reform: What President Obama Said, And What He Didn’t


President Obama gave a speech this morning outlining changes to be implemented in the NSA phone record surveillance program. The reforms are a result of an in-depth investigation into NSA...
    






Questions and answers about Obama’s new NSA rules


Questions and answers about Obama's plan to rein in NSA snooping on phone records and emails WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ordering changes to spy programs that sweep up...
    






Protecting Your Privacy From Corporations, The Government And You


Thanks in part to Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA snooping, privacy was a dominant theme in 2013 and will continue to be in 2014. To me, there are three major sources of risk when it comes to...
    






UN votes to protect privacy in digital age


General Assembly approves resolution aimed at protecting privacy against unlawful surveillance UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at...
    






Internet Giants Jointly Urge Government to Reform Surveillance Policy


Several Internet colossi such as AOL, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and Apple got together for a common purpose: putting an end to government snooping. It seems that the...