Tech at Night: Domestic Internet spying, FCC, Free Press, Henry Waxman, Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 28th at 04:00 AM |
Hello. The longer the Democrats are in Washington, the more the mask slips with respect to their true beliefs regarding freedom online. They claim they don’t want a government takeover, they claim they don’t want to regulate content, they claim they don’t want a kill switch, they claim they want to respect privacy, but time and again all of these issues just keep coming up. | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
BitTorrent,
Deem and Pass,
Domestic Spying,
Facebook,
FCC,
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Google,
Henry Waxman,
Internet,
neo-Marxist,
Net Neutrality,
Privacy,
RIM,
Robert McChesney,
Skype,
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Telecommunications Act,
Title II Reclassification,
Verizon
Tech at Night: FBI, Facebook, FTC, Free Speech, Apple
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 31st at 02:45 AM |
Good evening (it’s still Monday night for those of us in the west at least). Let’s start off tonight by remembering when Barack Obama and the democrats complained about so-called domestic spying under the Bush administration? Well, a team of organizations went after the FBI for watching possibly terrorist Islamic organizations. The FBI responded by saying they don’t need to already believe an organization is | Read More »
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Apple,
Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
DMCA,
Domestic Spying,
Facebook,
FBI,
Free Speech,
FTC,
iOS,
iPhone,
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Tech at Night: Google, National Security Agency
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 9th at 10:00 PM |
Good evening. We’re now off to a good start with this new Monday-Wednesday-Friday column, because this time I’m getting it published before midnight on both coasts. So let’s get right to it. The two big stories I’m seeing are that Google’s Street View spying troubles are coming home to the US, and the NSA is apparently expanding its mission to protect US communications from foreign | Read More »
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AES,
Andrew McLaughlin,
Cryptography,
DES,
Domestic Spying,
Google,
IBM,
Internet,
National Security Agency,
Net Neutrality,
NSA,
Perfect Citizen,
Privacy,
S-Boxes,
Street View,
TDEA,
Tech at Night,
Triple DES,
Vint Cerf,
WiSpy
Law and Order: Google’s Intent
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 11th at 12:03 PM |
It’s been a while since we peeked in at Google’s doings. The proud champion of unprecedented FCC power grabs toward Net Neutrality regulation of the Internet (for which opposition is growing in the Senate) is still under fire for two broad breaches of the public’s trust: The Andrew McLaughlin lobbying from the White House, and the massive privacy breaches in the Street View program.
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Andrew McLaughlin,
Barack Obama,
Darrell Issa,
Domestic Spying,
FCC,
Google,
Internet,
Net Neutrality,
Privacy,
Privacy International,
Street View