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Apple v. Samsung Heads to Supreme Court: What You Need to Know
Oct 12, 2016The biggest patent case to hit the modern tech world is back again. Apple and Samsung will appear before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to argue why their opponent was wrong when it came to a patent case from 2012. This is the first time ...
Tags: US Supreme Court, Apple, patent case, Samsung
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UN Panel Has Adopted a Draft Resolution on Potential Threats to Human Rights
Nov 29, 2013Following reports about U.S. surveillance worldwide, a United Nations panel has adopted a draft resolution on potential threats to human rights such as the right to privacy in the digital age. The draft resolution, approved without a ...
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Twitter Has Implemented New Security Measures That Should Reduce Eavesdropping
Nov 25, 2013Twitter has implemented new security measures that should reduce eavesdropping on communications between its servers and users, and is calling on other Internet companies to follow its lead. The company has implemented “perfect ...
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President Ronald Reagan Signed an Executive Order
Nov 22, 2013SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, ...
Tags: Reagan, NSA, Google and Yahoo
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Websites Are Increasingly Tracking Users Without Their Knowledge
Oct 16, 2013Websites are increasingly tracking users without their knowledge or permission by using "device fingerprinting" to identify individual web users. Device fingerprinting uses the data sent by a PC, smartphone or tablet computer to websites ...
Tags: Fingerprinting, Computer Products, software
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The Global Network Initiative Has Made The Request to The 21 Governments
Sep 20, 2013Countries that have pledged to support Internet freedom should allow technology vendors to report the number of electronic surveillance requests they receive, a tech advocacy group said Thursday. The Global Network Initiative, whose ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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NSA Was Acquiring Thousands of Digital Communications From Americans
Aug 22, 2013The National Security Agency was acquiring thousands of digital communications from Americans as of 2011, according to a declassified document from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The glimpse of the NSA's surveillance on ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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U. S. Appeals Give out an Appeals Court Ruled in an Order
Aug 5, 2013Warrants are not required by the U.S. government to access historical cell site information, an appeals court ruled in an order. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects only reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. ...
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Google's 'back up My Data' Feature for Android Could Be Providing Users' Wi-Fi Passwords
Jul 23, 2013Google's 'back up my data' feature for Android could be providing users' Wi-Fi passwords to the likes of US National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned. A bug report posted by the ...
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Yahoo Has Won a Court Ruling That Allows The Release of Records
Jul 18, 2013Yahoo has won a court ruling that allows the release of records that show how the web firm fought against demands to hand over data under Prism, when the web monitoring system was first established in 2008. A court ruled that the United ...
Tags: Yahoo, Computer Products
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Scientists Signed off on a Court Brief Opposing Oracle's Effort to Copyright Its Java APIs
Jun 19, 2013More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive. The amicus brief was filed by the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Authorization Expires on July 19 and The Order Can Only Be Declassified by April 2038
Jun 12, 2013The National Security Agency has been allowed by a court order to collect phone records of a large number of customers of Verizon, according to a report in the Guardian on Thursday. The April 25 order from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence ...
Tags: Computer Products, US, Call Records
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The State Legislature,by a Vote of 113-28,Passed The Bill Last Week
Jun 3, 2013Maine is one step closer to becoming the first state in the nation with a law that would require police to obtain a court-issued search warrant in order to obtain a person's cell-phone location data. The State Legislature, by a vote of ...
Tags: Cell-Phone Tracking, Warrant, Maine
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Scientists Signed off on a Court Brief Opposing Oracle's Bid to Copyright Java APIs
Jun 2, 2013Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
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Personal Audio's Patents Have Stood up to Past Scrutiny
May 31, 2013The company that owns a U.S. patent for podcasting is confident the patent will stand up to a challenge initiated this week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Personal Audio's patents have stood up to past scrutiny, including a ...
Tags: Personal Audio, Podcasting Patent