Vizio faces lawsuit over spying Smart TVs used to gather personal info that’s sold to advertisers
It wasn’t long ago that the notion of TVs capable of spying on its viewers was considered but a mere conspiracy theory. Today, however, the concept is well known, and arguably, even accepted. However, one woman decided to fight back against a popular multi-billion dollar electronics company for its invasive spying. A California woman filed a lawsuit Read More
AT&T customers relentless in their efforts to sue NSA for government’s illegal mass surveillance program
Represented by digital-rights watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), five AT&T customers are suing the National Security Agency (NSA), and others involved in the illegal mass surveillance of the American public, which was exposed when former CIA employee Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the U.S. government’s secret spy program. “Filed in 2008, Jewel v. NSA Read More
How AT&T helped the US government spy on their citizens’ internet communications
Newly discovered documents have exposed that, not only does AT&T work closely with U.S. spy agencies, but they have been directly facilitating the snooping of any internet traffic which runs through the customers’ networks for years. According to the documents, AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities which date from 2003 to Read More
The lies behind Apple’s encryption boasts: the FBI’s backdoors to the iPhone
Recently Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview to Charlie Rose that not only is Apple not looking at or storing users’ data, but their encryption is so strong not even they can break it! It turns out these boasts were all lies, and Apple devices are far more vulnerable than most unsuspecting users would Read More
Carly Fiorina: Make cyber warfare ‘very painful’ for China
(Cyberwar.news) Republican presidential contender Carly Fiorina has a message she would send to China if elected to the Oval Office next year: She would make it “very painful” for Beijing if they continue to hack U.S. computer systems. As reported by The Hill, Fiorina, the former CEO of tech giant Hewlett Packard, said recently during Read More
D.C. Circuit overturns ban on NSA mass data collection
(NationalSecurity.news) The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a ban imposed by a lower court against a National Security Agency call records program on the grounds that the plaintiff was unable to prove that his own phone records were collected and, therefore, lacks standing to sue, The Washington Post reported. The ruling lifts an Read More
Secret government plan to disable all cell phone service during emergencies may finally be disclosed
A petition filed before the U.S. Supreme Court seeks to force the federal government to disclose heretofore secret plans to disable all cell phone service in the event of a declared national emergency. As reported by Ars Technica, the filing relates to Standard Operating Procedure 303, the Emergency Wireless Protocols which are part of the Read More
New Snowden revelations detail AT&T’s much deeper relationship with the NSA
(NationalSecurity.news) New revelations that the National Security Agency and telecom giant AT&T had a much deeper spy relationship than previously known has rankled Americans and further eroded trust in the federal government’s relationships with companies that provide private electronic communications services. On Saturday, The New York Times reported that, according to documents provided by former NSA Read More
Gun-free schools in America now training children as resistance militia forces armed with cans of soup
The latest loony idea from “gun-free zone” advocates (who absolutely insist on making children a target in public schools by advertising the utter lack of armed defenses there) involves training children to function as school resistance militia forces using cans of soup as weapons. I’m seriously not making this up. See the letter from the Read More