Archive for the 'Technology' Category
FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites – Now
May 5th, 2012Via: Cnet: CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory. The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require […]
Obama Regime Wants Prosecutors to Have Easier Access to Cell Phone Records
May 4th, 2012Via: Reuters: The U.S. Congress should pass a law to give investigators freer access to certain cellphone records, an Obama administration official said on Thursday, in remarks that raised concern among advocates of civil liberties and privacy. Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division, argued that requirements for warrants […]
All Hail the Robotic Farmers and Pilots of the Future
May 2nd, 2012Via: Wired: Fighter pilot Mary “Missy” Cummings saw it coming while landing her F/A-18 supersonic jet on a Navy aircraft carrier — the world-changing disruption barreling toward the present. Instead of landing the multi-million-dollar machine on the small deck of the ship herself in the 1990s, a computer accomplished the tricky feat for her. “Here […]
Economist Intelligence Unit: ‘Rise of the Machines: Moving from Hype to Reality in the Burgeoning Market for Machine-to-Machine Communication’
April 30th, 2012Via: Economist Intelligence Unit: Fast-forward to 2012, and much of what used to be M2M whiteboard concepts can now be found in the field. The Fonterra Co-operative Group, a New Zealand-based dairy company, has set up autonomous forklifts within a warehouse that can work around the clock, with far fewer accidents and reduced wear and […]
‘Is it only a matter of time before drone technology is used in civil society?’
April 30th, 2012Via: Independent: It is the snooping function foreseen by Orwell that is the most significant next step for drones in our societies: with our cities and public buildings already saturated with surveillance cameras, we may fondly suppose that the state’s monitoring of our daily lives has gone as far as it can go. But we […]
Justice Department Clears Google in Wi-Fi Sniffing Scandal
April 29th, 2012Compared to what Uncle $cam and “Law Enforcement” are doing every second of every day, this Google debacle was almost hilariously trivial. Via: Wired: The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans’ data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. “The […]
Google Tries To Slam Brakes On Privacy Outcry Over ‘Google Drive’
April 26th, 2012Via: Talking Points Memo: Google on Tuesday unveiled what it affectionately referred to as its “Loch Ness Monster” of products, a long-rumored cloud-based file storage service called simply “Google Drive.” But now, Google is having trouble keeping its monster under control as a number of Web users have raised privacy issues with the new product. […]
CISPA Bill To Obliterate Privacy Laws Under Guise of Cybersecurity, A Blank Check of Privacy Invasion
April 26th, 2012Via: Hot Hardware: There’s a bill currently up for debate in the US House of Representatives that would give companies and government agencies the right to share information when issues of cybersecurity were at stake. If the first thing you thought after reading that was “Wait, don’t we already do this,” the answer is “Yes, […]
Sci-fi Publisher Announces Tor and Forge Will Go DRM-Free with All E-Book Titles
April 26th, 2012Via: Tor: Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free. “Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and […]
FAA Releases Lists of Organizations Authorized to Operate Unmanned Aircraft in the U.S.
April 24th, 2012Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: This week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally released its first round of records in response to EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for information on the agency’s drone authorization program. The agency says the two lists it released include the names of all public and private entities that have […]
