Cash Rich Tech Companies Becoming Banks?
In one of my posts about the financial crisis, I noted two important things: that if banks really did stop lending money, there would be opportunities for others to start lending (though, the question...
View ArticleSen. Durbin To Introduce Bill Sanctioning Companies That Don't Protect Human...
Senator Dick Durbin is introducing legislation to sanction companies that don't take "reasonable steps" to protect the human rights of people abroad. This is obviously targeted at companies doing...
View ArticleTech Companies Getting Called Out For Supporting PIPA/SOPA
With the growing public sentiment against SOPA/PIPA, it seems that some of their dislike of these bills is coming back to bite tech companies that have lobbied in support of the bill. It appears that...
View ArticleShameful: Tech Companies Fighting Against Necessary CFAA Reform And CISPA Fixes
We've been talking a lot about the importance of CFAA reform lately, even highlighting how, under the CFAA, the founders of some of the most successful tech and software companies of our time could...
View ArticleTech Companies Deny Letting NSA Have Realtime Access To Their Servers, But...
We've already talked about James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence choosing weasel words to pretend they're saying that they weren't spying on Americans when they really were, and now...
View ArticleWashington Post Quietly Backtrcks On Claim That Tech Companies Knowingly Gave...
The Next Web is noting that the Washington Post has quietly backtracked on its original claim that tech companies "participated knowingly" in the PRISM spying program. And, at the same time, some of...
View ArticleNSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy...
This will come as no surprise to anyone, but NSA boss General Keith Alexander is pestering Congress for a new law which would provide blanket immunity for companies helping the NSA collect data on...
View ArticleIf 'Just Metadata' Isn't An Issue, Why Can't Tech Companies Reveal 'Just...
You may have heard the news today that a bunch of big tech companies -- including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr and others -- have sent a strong letter to a...
View ArticleFeds Trying To Get Master Encryption Keys From Tech Companies
This is hardly surprising, but Declan McCullagh is reporting that the feds have been trying to get various tech companies to hand over their master encryption keys so that the NSA and FBI can decrypt...
View ArticleIt's Finally Dawning On Tech Companies That All This NSA Stuff Is Bad For Them
We've been arguing since the beginning of the Snowden leaks, that the tech industry should be much angrier than it is about all of this, because the fallout and blowback from this is going to impact...
View ArticleMost Big Internet Companies Speak Out For Major Surveillance Reform
Since the Snowden leaks began we've highlighted that the US internet companies should be furious about the NSA's actions, because it was almost certainly going to harm their ability to get any...
View ArticleBig Tech Companies Agree To Pay Up Over Hiring Collusion
Last month, we pointed out that Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel would almost certainly settle, rather than face an ongoing lawsuit concerning their collusive hiring practices, in which they promised...
View ArticleTech Companies Increasingly Telling Users When Law Enforcement Comes Asking...
In the past, we've noted that Twitter, alone among major tech companies, had made it a corporate policy to not just roll over when law enforcement came asking for user data, even alerting users that...
View ArticleCash Rich Tech Companies Becoming Banks?
In one of my posts about the financial crisis, I noted two important things: that if banks really did stop lending money, there would be opportunities for others to start lending (though, the question...
View ArticleSen. Durbin To Introduce Bill Sanctioning Companies That Don't Protect Human...
Senator Dick Durbin is introducing legislation to sanction companies that don't take "reasonable steps" to protect the human rights of people abroad. This is obviously targeted at companies doing...
View ArticleTech Companies Getting Called Out For Supporting PIPA/SOPA
With the growing public sentiment against SOPA/PIPA, it seems that some of their dislike of these bills is coming back to bite tech companies that have lobbied in support of the bill. It appears that...
View ArticleShameful: Tech Companies Fighting Against Necessary CFAA Reform And CISPA Fixes
We've been talking a lot about the importance of CFAA reform lately, even highlighting how, under the CFAA, the founders of some of the most successful tech and software companies of our time could...
View ArticleTech Companies Deny Letting NSA Have Realtime Access To Their Servers, But...
We've already talked about James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence choosing weasel words to pretend they're saying that they weren't spying on Americans when they really were, and now...
View ArticleWashington Post Quietly Backtrcks On Claim That Tech Companies Knowingly Gave...
The Next Web is noting that the Washington Post has quietly backtracked on its original claim that tech companies "participated knowingly" in the PRISM spying program. And, at the same time, some of...
View ArticleNSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy...
This will come as no surprise to anyone, but NSA boss General Keith Alexander is pestering Congress for a new law which would provide blanket immunity for companies helping the NSA collect data on...
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