NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and...
by KIM ZETTER Wired As if news of the National Security Agency collecting phone records on millions of Americans wasn’t enough, a new report reveals that the NSA and FBI are directly tapped into...
View ArticleApple Dodges All Taxes In The UK, Again ~ Forbes
SEE ALSO: 6 Reasons Your Apple Product Has Become Very Uncool (Alternet) by Tim WorstallForbes Apple ‘s filed the corporate results for its UK subsidiaries and analysis of them shows that the company...
View ArticleApple Guilty of Price Fixing ~ Gizmodo
by MARIO AGUILAR Gizmodo U.S. District Judge Denise Cote has found that Apple is guilty of colluding with five book publishers to fix ebook prices artificially high in the iBookstore, thereby forcing...
View ArticleThe NSA Has Inserted Its Code Into Android OS, Or Three Quarters Of All...
Zero Hedge Over a decade ago, it was discovered that the NSA embedded backdoor access into Windows 95, and likely into virtually all other subsequent internet connected, desktop-based operating...
View ArticleApple’s new iPhone ‘has fingerprint sensor’
From The Telegraph: A string of code from iOS 7 revealing ‘a fingerprint that changes colour during the setup process’ was posted online yesterday, sparking rumours that the new iPhone could contain a...
View ArticleChina Labor Watch: Apple-supplier Pegatron violates China workers’ rights
From Reuters: Pegatron Corp, a Taiwanese company that makes Apple Inc products, is violating workers’ rights at its Chinese factories in Shanghai and Suzhou, New York-based rights group China Labor...
View ArticleApple Helps Cops Hide Police Brutality (and other police state USA news)
From Guardian Express: Almost everyone has a cell phone these days and more and more people carry a smartphone of some type, including the increasingly popular Apple i-Phone. You can do so many things...
View ArticleI am utterly pathetic, says nagging voice in iPhone queuer’s head
From The Daily Mash: THE inner voice of a man queueing for the new iPhone is telling him that he needs to get his shit together. 38-year-old Tom Booker spent the night on the pavement of Oxford Street...
View ArticleLord Sugar investigated over allegation of racist tweet
From the London Evening Standard: Lord Sugar has been investigated by police after he was accused a posting a racist message on Twitter. The tycoon posted a photograph of a crying Chinese child and...
View ArticleOrwellian Themed Apple Ad That Aired During The Super Bowl In 1984
Filed under: Apple, Science & Technology, Surveillance, The Web
View ArticleReport: Steve Jobs, Google CEO plotted ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ to keep wages...
From RT: Two of the most powerful people in the technology world secretly and perhaps illegally coordinated business strategies in which they agreed not to poach each other’s employees, thereby keeping...
View ArticleHow Much Tech Companies Spend on Gaining Political Influence
Filed under: Apple, Big Tech, Congress, Google, Science & Technology, USA
View ArticleSecret ‘Minority Report’ Tech In All Post-2010 iPhones
Apple’s iBeacon tracks, guides shoppers Privacy advocates worry over new Apple iPhone tracking feature Filed under: Apple, Big Tech, Science & Technology, Surveillance
View Article5.4 Million Dead in Conflict Mineral Wars to Put an iPhone in Your Hands
‘Abby Martin reports on the disclosures of hundreds of multinational corporations being unable to definitively prove that their products aren’t made with ‘conflict minerals’.’ (Breaking the Set)...
View ArticleOccupy Silicon Valley & the Facebook Cop: Interview with Robbie Martin
‘Abby Martin speaks with journalist and host of Media Roots Radio, Robbie Martin, going over why Facebook is hiring police officers to aid in surveillance, as well as why more people aren’t outraged...
View ArticleFBI: New Apple, Google phones too secure, could put users ‘beyond the law’
Jacob Axelrad reports for Christian Science Monitor: ‘The FBI director James Comey has expressed concern that Apple and Google are making phones that cannot be searched by the government. Speaking to...
View ArticleApple Still Has Plenty of Your Data for the Feds
Micah Lee writes for The Intercept: ‘In a much-publicized open letter last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to protect user privacy with improved encryption on iPhones and iPads and a hard line toward...
View ArticleYour iPhone is now encrypted. The FBI says it’ll help kidnappers. Who do you...
Trevor Timm writes for The Guardian: ‘Much of the world has been enthralled by the new iPhone 6, but civil liberties advocates have been cheering, too: Along with iOS 8, Apple made some landmark...
View ArticleFBI Director: If Apple and Google Won’t Decrypt Phones, We’ll Force Them To
Jason Koebler reports for VICE Motherboard: ‘Everyone is stoked that the latest versions of iOS and Android will (finally) encrypt all the information on your smartphone by default. Except, of course,...
View ArticleiEmpire: Apple’s Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think
Arun Gupta writes for AlterNet: ‘Behind the sleek face of the iPad is an ugly backstory that reveals once more the horrors of globalization. The buzz about Apple’s sordid business practices comes...
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