A US government task force is drafting FBI-backed legislation that would penalize companies like Google and Facebook for refusing to comply with wiretap orders, media report. In the new legislation being drafted by US law enforcement officials, refusal to cooperate with the FBI could cost a tech company tens of thousands of dollars in fines, the Washington Post quoted anonymous sources as saying.
Fox News journalist Todd Starnes wrote the story which appeared on The Drudge Report but was then removed by Fox News. The story was picked up by Townhall.com but was then also removed from the website
If signed into law, CISPA would make it legal for websites to give your personal information to the U.S. government without your permission
In an era of digital interactivity, it also unfolded around the country from laptops and desk chairs filled with regular folks
Out of the horror and carnage of the Boston Maraton bombing on Monday, kindness and humanity spread rapidly, outweighing the terrorism
“I’m hoping all of these tech companies take the stand that their privacy policies matter. Their users’ privacy matters,” Ohanian said in the video. “And no legislation like CISPA should take that away.”
Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation
A Chinese magazine’s report on abuses at a notorious labor camp is giving reformers added ammunition in a campaign to abolish a part of the penal system that China’s government says needs change
According to several reports, the agency will also be collecting personal information from sites like Facebook and Twitter
Easter Sunday proved dangerous for the InfiniTeam after the team was subdued by an unexpected, (but should have been expected due to it being Resurrection Day and the new Walking Dead premiere) zombie attack in the Queen Village section of Philadelphia, Pa.
The band Ghost Beach is running a controversial billboard campaign in New York’s Times Square. With slogans such as “Piracy is Progress” and “Piracy is Robbery” they are encouraging other artists to speak their mind about copyright infringement
If you have been following the Internet crackdown underway in Russia, you will not be surprised to learn that Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin has recruited many websites — which are either terrified of his wrath or interested in currying his favor — to help crush and eradicate criticism of his government online
The idea of taking raw political discussion, unfiltered by the mainstream media and spreading it across the social networks would surely change public discourse
The federal trial against alleged computer criminal Barrett Brown has been delayed by six months. Now the activist once called the “spokesperson” of the Anonymous hacker movement will wait in prison for one full year before being tried
Twitter reported Thursday afternoon on its blog that more than a million tweets were sent during Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s near-13 hour filibuster on the Senate floor Wednesday, placing the conversation almost on par with the 1.36 million tweets sent about President Barack Obama’s most recent State of the Union address
A number of countries are aggressively trying to control the Internet, a top US diplomat cautioned Thursday, insisting Washington would give no ground when it comes to curbing freedoms on the Web
Gabriella Coleman started studying hackers before it was cool — in 1999, to be precise, after being introduced to the open source movement by a programmer friend. She got a preemptive whiff of the hacker collective Anonymous
A new application will soon allow users to keep posting Twitter updates from beyond the grave, independently using intricate knowledge of your online character to create a virtual continuation of your personality after you die
Using the internet for hours on end can result in withdrawal symptoms similar to the ‘comedown’ experienced by drug users
Online privacy advocate Kim Dotcom has plans to expand Mega, his new file-sharing site, to include secure email, chat, voice, video and mobile services
Tunisia has dissolved its government in an attempt to stem violent protests sparked by the assassination of a liberal opposition politician, in the biggest threat to the country’s stability since the Arab Spring
Internet activist group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the apparent hack of a U.S. government website on Feb. 3, less than a week after defacing two other sites as part of the group’s ongoing Operation Last Resort
Hackers and hacktivists associated with Anonymous have attempted to claim responsibility for Sunday night’s power outage at the Super Bowl that left fans and teams in the dark for over 30 minutes
A decade-plus of anthropological fieldwork among hackers and like-minded geeks has led me to the firm conviction that these people are building one of the most vibrant civil liberties movements we’ve ever seen
