It made it extremely easy to bypass the establishment gatekeepers of ideas and information. For example, I remember in the mid-2000s using Google to satisfy my curiosity about this "libertarianism" thing I had heard about
Several schools in England are threatening to call child protective services and have parents arrested by police if they allow their children to play video games such as 'Grand Theft Auto' and 'Call Of Duty'.
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon is by far the most outspoken foe in Congress of the NSA and the domestic surveillance state that was created by Woodrow Wilson in 1917, accelerated by Harry Truman, and made exponential by the passage of the Patriot Act in
High-definition 'virtual deputy' surveillance cameras are expected to be deployed by the end of the year to record traffic and street crime in Southern Florida, Broward County officials said Friday.
So in just two years' time, we're all set to be microchipped, iris scanned, facially recognized, and fingerprinted everywhere we go for just about any reason including buying stuff just like in the movie Minority Report.
I've spent a good bit of the last few days thinking about Google's recent attack against Antiwar.com. My first thought was: If they've determined that images accurately portraying war in a news context that have been on the Antiwar site for yea
They'll be able to target audiences based on location and viewing history. In other words, TV advertisers will have access to the same audience intel online advertisers take for granted.
The bipartisan Surveillance State Repeal Act, if passed, would repeal dragnet surveillance of Americans' personal communications, overhaul the federal domestic surveillance program, and provide protections for whistleblowers.
The bipartisan Surveillance State Repeal Act, if passed, would repeal dragnet surveillance of Americans' personal communications, overhaul the federal domestic surveillance program, and provide protections for whistleblowers.
Google has backed off its original "open" stance on Android. And it's all because apps are replacing the web on mobile devices. Google got mobile carriers on board by promising them that the project would remain open.
When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1, committee chairman Senator Richard Burr argued that it successfully balanced security and privacy.
The contest is open to anyone who thinks they can best capture a pro peace message as an internet meme. The deadline for submissions is midnight (EST) April 20th, 2015
During a conference held to award Journalist Glenn Greenwald the Siebenpfeiffer Prize for Journalism, Greenwald reported a conversation in which German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel shared...
Cisco is taking matters into its own hands, offering to ship equipment to fake addresses in an effort to avoid NSA interception. I don't think we have begun to understand the long-term damage the NSA has done to the US tech industry.
This morning (3/18/15) we received a note from Google Adsense informing us that all ads for our site had been disabled. Why? Because of this page showing the horrific abuses committed by U.S. troops in Iraq at Abu Ghraib.
In a letter obtained and published by the blog Bob Braun's Ledger, Elizabeth Jewett, the regional high school district superintendent for Watchung Hills, New Jersey, told colleagues she had been made aware through the New Jersey department of educa
"We made the argument that the program was an improper delegation of police power because the videos were being sent out of state for employees of American Traffic Solutions to do the screening," said Ted Hollander, an attorney with Ticket Clinic.
When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1, committee chairman Senator Richard Burr argued that it successfully balanced security and privacy.
Speaking at South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, the 44-year-old defended the headset by saying it just used cameras that were already in existence.
Popcorn Time was an instant hit when it launched just over a year ago: The video streaming service made BitTorrent piracy as easy as Netflix, but with far more content and none of those pesky monthly payments.