On Thursday afternoon, a District Court judge in Virginia ordered that Chelsea Manning be released from jail, where she has been held since last May for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The ruling itself is striking in what it fails to recognize. “The court finds Ms. Manning’s appearance before the Grand Jury is […]
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Bill Gates Resigns From Microsoft Board…
One hour after the close of another one of the most tumultuous weeks in Wall Street history, Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, resigned from the company’s board. Earlier today, Gates stepped down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by his friend and fellow billionaire, Warren Buffett. Both men have been […]
Twitter Mandates All Employees Work from Home…
After previously recommending all employees work from home, Twitter took things a step further on Wednesday, making telecommuting mandatory for nearly all employees. Why it matters: It’s another sign of just how seriously big tech companies are taking the coronavirus outbreak. Twitter said in a blog post that it was making the move to support […]
Amazon Launches Business Selling Automated Checkout to Retailers…
Amazon calls it: Just Walk Out – Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. Born from years of experience at Amazon Go, Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines. We now offer retailers the ability to leverage this technology […]
Bipartisan Sens. Demand DOJ Include ‘Search’ In Google Antitrust Investigation…
Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri (R) and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (R) are instructing the Justice Department to include Google’s search engine in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the tech giant Tuesday. “How Google operates its search engine warrants close scrutiny,” the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Barr. “At more than […]
Watch This Short Video to Learn How Your Constitutional Right to Privacy Is Disregarded by the Secret FISA Court and Its Judges…
The U.S. Intelligence community has repeatedly misled the FISA Court over the years. The result is that the 4th amendment rights of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans, have been violated. What’s gone wrong? It’s a complex problem. This report provides a streamlined overview…
SXSW 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus….
SXSW, the annual tech, music, and film meetup held in downtown Austin, is the latest major conference to be canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, and just one week before it was slated to start. It is the first time in the event’s 34-year history that it’s been canceled. The festival was scheduled to take […]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Responds to Wiretapping Abuses…
A new order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sets forth and reviews specific changes in the wake of government wiretapping abuses. The most noteworthy item bars the FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) officials who were involved in the controversial wiretaps from “drafting, verifying, reviewing, or submitting” new wiretap applications while their actions are under […]
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Why Metadata Matters…
Metadata is often described as everything except the content of your communications. You can think of metadata as the digital equivalent of an envelope. Just like an envelope contains information about the sender, receiver, and destination of a message, so does metadata. Metadata is information about the digital communications you send and receive. Some examples […]
Facebook Fact-Checking Is Becoming a Political Cudgel…
Facebook’s fact-checking program is designed to stop false information from spreading. But being able to decide what’s true can also be a political weapon, and for the past few days, it’s been used in a fight over President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response. The battle centers on a recent Politico article about a South Carolina Trump […]
William Barr Helped Build America’s Surveillance State…
William Barr, President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has a history of getting it wrong. From designing warrantless surveillance programs to justifying the president’s power to disregard acts of Congress, Barr has advanced dubious legal theories that have been rejected by the courts, Congress, and the public. As Barr begins the confirmation process, senators must […]
Email Scammers Are Savvier, and More Successful Than Ever…
Email scams—often riddled with typos and written by non-native English speakers in Africa—were once crude attempts to steal money from inexperienced computer users. No more. Federal investigators say these scams have become sophisticated frauds that are costing American businesses and individuals billions of dollars a year. Estimated losses have soared in the past five years […]
Google’s Creepy Line…
The Creepy Line is a particularly sinister term used in an unguarded remark by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in 2010. In hindsight, what is most disturbing about the comment is how casually he explained Google’s policy regarding invading the privacy of its customers and clients. “Google policy on a lot of these things,” Schmidt […]
Bad News for Silicon Valley: William Barr Is Taking Control of Antitrust Probes…
Attorney General William Barr has spent months taking greater control of the Justice Department’s antitrust probes into the big tech companies, a development that could increase the peril for major players like Google and Facebook. Barr has centralized oversight of antitrust matters under a handful of appointees in his office and that of his deputy […]
Pedestrian Deaths in the U.S. Reached 30-Year High in 2019…
Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. reached 30-year high in 2019, with distracted driving, texting and SUVs blamed for the spike, according to a report released Thursday by the Governors Highway Safety Association. The group’s annual report projects 6,590 pedestrians were killed on U.S. roads last year, the most since 1988. The projected number of pedestrian […]
‘Cease And Desist Is on the Way’: Grubhub, Other Food Delivery Apps Accused of Circumventing Formal Restaurant Agreements for Profit…
Restaurant owners are taking action against food delivery apps that have their eateries listed on the platforms without their permission. Grubhub, one of the most popular mobile food ordering services, is being sued for allegedly placing restaurants and their respective menus on its app without the owners knowing. It’s also being sued for allegedly charging […]
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FCC to Propose Fines of AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon for Selling Your Location Data…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will propose fines for the nation’s largest telecom companies for selling the location data of their customers without consent. In all, the FCC says the carriers should pay around $200 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal first reported the fines, and said the […]
‘Clean’ FISA Renewal Moving Ahead as Key Spygate Reforms Are Pushed Down the Road…
Senate and House Republicans appear to be at loggerheads on whether to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) before or after the controversial law at the heart of the Spygate scandal is reauthorized. Amid frenzied budget negotiations, an obscure provision in the Nov. 18, 2019, measure keeping the government open extended FISA’s expiration at […]
Federal Court Rules YouTube Can Give Preferential Treatment to Liberal Content…
Conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager’s plans to become a champion for conservative justice in a world plagued by liberal media bias are stalled for now. Prager, who founded Prager University (“PragerU”), sued YouTube and its parent company Google, claiming that YouTube illegally censors conservatives while giving preferential treatment to liberals. PragerU also claimed […]
Ex-FBI Unit Chief Blows Whistle on Comey, McCabe over Warrantless Spying…
The FBI agent who ran the bureau’s warrantless spying program said Wednesday he warned ex-Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe that the program was a useless waste of taxpayer money that needlessly infringed Americans’ civil liberties but his bosses refused to take action. Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef ran the FBI’s Communications Analysis […]
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