U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is urging Congress to “promptly” reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) scheduled to expire at the end of this year. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats also signed the letter, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Read More…
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Study Suggests That Apple Deliberately Sabotages Old Products, “iPhone Slow” Peaks After Every New Release
Time and time again I’ve heard people complain about their iPhones or Mac laptops getting slower and slower, forcing them to purchase entirely new products. However, many people who have experienced this technological lull also noticed that the deterioration of their Apple products coincided with the launch of Apple’s new products. To be honest, if Read More…
Trump Quietly Nominates Mass Surveillance Advocate To “Protect” Your Privacy Rights
Though outrage over mass surveillance swept the United States after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, there is little discussion of these invasive practices just four years later. This apathy comes despite former President Barack Obama’s move to expand to information sharing between agencies just days before Trump took office and after the Trump administration signaled its desire to continue Read More…
Google Is Quietly Recording Everything You Do
Even though this may not come as a surprise to most of you, it is still something that is happening all around us, all the time, and right under our noses: Google is quietly recording everything we do, from conversations we have over the phone and texts to videos we send and create over webcams and Read More…
Declassified Memos Show Obama’s NSA Spied On Americans Way More Than You Thought
Back in May the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) found that the National Security Agency (NSA), under former President Obama, routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall. “The October 26, 2016 Read More…
Iran Sentences US Citizen To 10 Years For Spying
With diplomatic relations between the US and Iran – a state Donald Trump has repeatedly accused of being a “state sponsor of terrorism” – already near rock bottom, on Sunday they took another turn for the worse after a United States citizen accused of “infiltration” in Iran was sentenced to 10 years in prison. “This Read More…






