Mike Wheatley
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DuckDuckGo, The PRISM-Proof Search Engine That the NSA Just Can’t Track
In the wake of the NSA’s spying revelations, a golden opportunity has arisen for lesser known web services that offer guarantees against government snooping. Admittedly, a large number of web users will probably never leave the likes of Google and Microsoft simply because they don’t care all that much about their privacy anyway, but there’s ...
EU To Investigate Claims Google Unfairly Licenses Android
Just weeks after Google reached a legally-binding agreement with the EU following a long-winded antitrust case, the company is now reported to be facing a new investigation by European authorities into allegations surrounding its Android smartphone operating system. Rivals of Google, including Microsoft, Nokia and FairSearch.org, argue that Google is licensing Android to phone manufacturers ...
US Government Spying Extends Far Beyond PRISM
Just when we thought these spying shenanigans couldn’t get any worse, well… They just did. A report by Michael Riley in Bloomberg today suggests that the nine technology firms supplying the NSA’s PRISM program with data are in fact just the tip of the iceberg, with the stunning revelation that thousands of technology, manufacturing and ...
Facebook Opens a REALLY COLD New Data Center in Sweden
Facebook has just announced the opening of a new data center in the frosty climes of Lulea, in Northern Sweden, right on the edge of the Arctic Circle, as it looks for novel ways to reduce operating costs whilst boosting its environmental friendliness. The new data center becomes the first such facility that Facebook’s opened ...
Crowdsourcing Takes Off in China with Danger Maps & More
Not to be outdone by our own crowdsourcing efforts recently, Chinese netizens are getting in on the act as well. A new project called Danger Maps that taps on the knowledge of China’s 564 million web users is helping to draw attention to pollution hot spots in the country, and is now set to expand ...
It’s Not Just US: Google Says That Iran Spies On its Citizens Too
Google may or may not be spying on its users, but it certainly knows what’s going on elsewhere around the world wide web. In an announcement yesterday, the company’s security division revealed the existence of a vast Iranian government spying campaign that’s been keeping a close eye on thousands of its citizens in the run ...
Yahoo Plans To Free Up Inactive Email Accounts
Yahoo Mail has had a bit of a torrid time of late, with no end in sight to reports of people’s accounts being hacked and used to send spam, and the fact that it’s fast losing users when compared to rival services like Gmail and Outlook.com. Last week’s revelations that Yahoo is allegedly one of ...
How To Get Out Of PRISM and Avoid NSA Spying
Admittedly, most people don’t seem to give a toss about PRISM one way or the other. But you should, and not just because certain groups claim that the NSA’s spying could be unconstitutional – there are lots of reasons why the alleged complicity of US tech firms could be bad for America, and no one ...
Google’s NSA Plea: Let Us Be More Transparent!
Google has explicitly denied passing on user data to the NSA. Whistleblower Edward Snowden begs to differ, saying he can access your emails and chat records at the click of a mouse button. So is someone not telling the truth? Or has the NSA simply found a way to access Google’s servers without it knowing? We ...
StopWatching.us Okay?
Having been angered at revelations of the NSA’s pervasive spying program PRISM, a group of high-profile rights advocates have stepped forward to demand that lawmakers take action against government spying. Led by the Mozilla Foundation, Reddit, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, the Internet Archive, and other organizations, a new movement called StopWatching.Us has created an online ...