by Lance Whitney. Imagine not being able to buy an iPhone in your state because the device's data is protected by encryption. A couple of Congressmen are trying to make sure that can't happen. The Encrypt Act of 2016, short for Ensuring National Constitutional Rights of Your Private Telecommunications Act, would deny states the power to block ... MORE
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Showing posts with label smart phones. Show all posts
Police State Update: Ex-Cop California Assemblyman Wants Encrytion Keys For All Cell Phones Available To The Police
by Cyrus Farivar. A second state lawmaker has now introduced a bill that would prohibit the sale of smartphones with unbreakable encryption. Except this time, despite very similar language to a pending New York bill, the stated rationale is to fight human trafficking, rather than terrorism. Specifically, California Assemblymember Jim Cooper’s
(D-Elk ... MORE
The Government Wants Access To Your Smartphone
by Christie Smythe. What you should know. “We’re not at war – we care about the same things,” FBI Director James Comey says of the struggle between the U.S. and the tech sector over how private your smartphone should be. The government wants to work with companies such as Apple Inc. and Google to stop criminals and terrorists ... MORE
The CIA Campaign To Steal Apple’s Secrets
by Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley. Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual ... MORE
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Dondi Tiples: Why Edward Snowden Won’t Use iPhones
Beware of Apple secret spyware. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is adamant about not coming within 10 feet of an iPhone because he claims Apple has installed some nasty secret spyware on their products. Apple may be the world’s leader in smart phones, but NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is steering clear of the popular ... MORE
How The NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
by Ryan Gallagher. In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military’s Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya’s cellphone networks and monitor text messages. For the NSA, the task was easy. ... MORE
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Massive Spying Of Americans' Cellphones From The Air
by Ronald Bailey. The Wall Street Journal has a terrific article, "Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program," that details how U.S. Marshals Service aircraft deploy "dirtbox" technology to spy on millions of Americans' cellphones from above. The dirtbox technology (so named as an acronym for the company that makes the devices, ... MORE
New Police State Tools Detects Texting While Driving
by Jonathan O'Callaghan. A new revenue-producer for local for politicians. Texting while driving can be incredibly dangerous and in most countries it is completely outlawed. That doesn’t stop some thoughtless motorists from trying to compose a message while flying along a motorway, though, increasing the chance of a fatal accident. ... MORE
Craig Timberg: New Apple Encryption Will Lock Out Police
Serving consumers at government's expense. Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the
company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even
when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech
companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily
participated in ... MORE
Washington Times Editorial: Water Vigilantes In California
Nobody likes a tattletale, but snitching comes naturally to a certain kind of busybody. The remarkable drought in California has produced a new category of righteous snitches called “water vigilantes.” They prowl through neighborhoods with smartphones, creeping through the shrubs and bushes in the dead of night looking for working sprinklers ... MORE
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Get A Warrant!: John Roberts Gives The Cops A Benchslap
by Damon Root. High Court decides police must obey the Fourth Amendment. The
Fourth Amendment protects our "persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Today, in the
case of
Riley v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
unanimously that this constitutional protection extends to ... MORE
Smartphone: Searchable Wallets Or Pocket PCs?
by William Jackson. The political-appointees in robes will decide. Smartphones contain a wealth of information that can translate into evidence in civil and criminal court cases, and law enforcement agencies increasingly are mining this data in their investigations. “If law enforcement or the government want to see your data, they can ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: A Sorry State Of The Union
What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about? ... MORE
This Smartphone Is Making Privacy A Priority
Lily Hay Newman on a new innovation: Blackphone. The national conversation about privacy is in high gear, and services
for things like secure messaging have been popping up everywhere to try
to meet demand. But most consumers aren't really in a position to
evaluate whether these services can actually deliver on their ... MORE
Mike Elgan: Are Your Smartphone Apps Selling You Out
Of course they are. The president of the United States says he's not
"allowed" to own an iPhone, which is why he's sticking with his
BlackBerry, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's a politically sensitive subject because the iPhone is the big American brand, and the president is a self-proclaimed fan of the late Apple
founder and CEO Steve ... MORE
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financial,
identity theft,
privacy,
protection,
security,
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How To Disappear When Someone's Spying On You
by Robert Krulwich. Whenever your cellphone is on, "They" know where you are, and I mean all the Theys — the spooks, the merchants, the drone pilots, the private detectives, probably even the Chinese. If you want your privacy, says artist/designer , you can go to the back of your phone, pry out the battery and break the connection, ... MORE
How To Keep Your Government From Spying On You
by Ronald Bailey. “Does the [National Security Agency] collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in March. Clapper replied, “No sir...not wittingly.” We now know that was ... MORE
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Ryan Gallagher: Protect Your Data From The Feds
The threat of silence. For the past few months, some of the world’s leading cryptographers
have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new
invention. Today, they’ve decided it’s time to tell all. Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments’ feathers with a “surveillance-proof” smartphone ... MORE
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