Tag: Surveillance

"We're looking at several options right now, none of which are optimum. They all have drawbacks." (AP File Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Spy chief: Estimating people being spied on could require more surveillance

Rudy Takala · April 25, 2016 11:01 pm

A Sunday report on the CBS program "60 Minutes" highlighted a vulnerability in the Signaling System 7 network, which is used by more than 800 telecom providers around the globe. (AP Photo)

FCC opens investigation into cell phone surveillance flaw

Rudy Takala · April 21, 2016 4:00 pm

The suit, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, seeks to learn whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has sought to compel a company such as Apple to surveil customer communications on behalf of the federal government. (iStock photo)

National Security

Justice Department sued over classified court rulings

Rudy Takala · April 20, 2016 1:54 pm

—œThere probably are some cases where [the government] should be able to go in covertly and get information about a company’s email,—? Bill Gates said at a Reuters event in Washington. (AP Photo)

National Security

Bill Gates on the fence in privacy vs. security debate

Rudy Takala · April 19, 2016 3:32 pm

According to an Apple report, law enforcement asked for assistance 4,000 times with 16,112 devices in the second half of 2015. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

National Security

Apple says it complies with 80 percent of government requests

Rudy Takala · April 19, 2016 12:48 pm

A Sunday report said a flaw in the Signaling System 7 network, which connects phone carriers, allows hackers to penetrated that network, monitor any connected phone using just a phone number. California Rep. Ted Lieu, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Information Technology, volunteered as a guinea pig for the report. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

National Security

Report: Network flaw leaves cellular data open to hackers

Rudy Takala · April 18, 2016 12:15 pm

Condemnation for the legislation, which was coauthored by Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr, came swiftly and from a broad spectrum of groups. (AP Photo)

Senators’ major encryption bill is ‘clueless’

Rudy Takala · April 18, 2016 4:01 am

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is releasing his first techno track this weekend. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

‘Hero of our times’ Snowden records a techno track

Rudy Takala · April 15, 2016 1:26 pm

Federal officials have claimed the authority to require Internet service providers to hand over private emails that are more than six months old, on the theory that the messages have been "abandoned" by the users. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

House panel votes to ban feds from reading emails without a warrant

Joel Gehrke · April 13, 2016 9:37 pm

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is pushing the Justice Department's to release a George W. Bush-era legal opinion on privacy and surveillance. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Wyden demands declassification of Bush-era surveillance ruling

Rudy Takala · March 25, 2016 1:11 pm

"The plan could play a meaningful role in cementing monopoly market power for companies like Google, Facebook or Twitter in secret-selling by regulating potential competitors out of business altogether," said Fred Campbell, director of Tech Knowledge and a professor of telecommunications law.

FCC rules could boost tech giants’ control over personal data

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 4:01 am

Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., a Marine Corps Reserve veteran who represents the military-heavy region around Virginia Beach, penned an open letter calling on Republicans to oppose Trump "based on his judgment, temperament and character." (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Surveillance hawks agree with Trump, but don’t support him

Rudy Takala · March 7, 2016 5:01 am