Regulating Your e-Freedom
The FCC, despite being told by courts on two occasions that it is not allowed to regulate the Internet, is going ahead with “Net Neutrality” rules — rules that...
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Tech Industry Urges Obama: Don’t Weaken Encryption
Strong encryption is an invaluable part of protecting privacy and liberty in the digital age. As more and more calls come from government agencies to ban encryption, the tech...
FBI Operating Secret Domestic “Spy-Plane” Air Force
The FBI has been secretly operating a small "civilian air force" of low-flying planes equipped with high definition cameras that capture video and still pictures of the area below...
Net Neutrality 2.0: Plans to Shift Control of Internet to Internationalists
With the FCC regulating ISPs in the United States and some as yet unknown international organization assuming control of the assignment of Internet addresses and domains, we may be...
Net Neutrality Faces Legislative and Legal Challenges
Mired in "governmentese" and steeped in double-talk, Net Neutrality has proven to be a tangled web of deceit. Now that the FCC's order has been entered in the Federal...
Report: Facebook Chat Messages Monitored by CIA-Backed Company
As if Facebook doesn't do enough damage to users' privacy without help, the social media giant has apparently been either the target or the willing accomplice of a CIA-funded...
Facebook Tracks Users Without Consent, but Users Can Take Control
Facebook has spent years earning a notorious reputation for sacrificing users' privacy for increased advertising revenue. Now the social networking giant may be in serious legal trouble with the...
Net Neutrality Lays Groundwork for Internet Taxes
When the FCC created new rules for Net Neutrality by reclassifying the Internet as a Title II public utility, Chairman Tom Wheeler dismissed the idea of new taxes and...
Net Neutrality’s Achilles’ Heel
As pernicious as the Federal Communications Commission's "bright-line" rules prohibiting blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization on the Internet are, they pale in comparison to what FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler...
A Look Inside the Net Neutrality Rules: It’s Worse Than You Think!
After the FCC made its "Net Neutrality" rules public late last week, The New American began poring over the 400 pages of rules and comments in the document (officially...
FCC Releases 400 Pages of Net Neutrality Rules
The FCC released its full rules for Net Neutrality Thursday morning. The 400-page document — including dissent from the two Republicans on the commission — was published via the very...
NSA Spying Gets Another Extension From Federal Court
Almost two years after Edward Snowden revealed the scope of NSA spying on American citizens, a federal court has issued another extension to keep the domestic spying program going...
It’s Not Too Late to Stop Net Neutrality
Republican lawmakers are pursuing legislation to reverse the FCC's February 26 Net Neutrality ruling, which at least one lawmaker describes as "illegal." If the ruling is implemented, the Internet...
UN “Expert” Praises FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules: Ignores Facts
The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, has praised the Net Neutrality plan of the FCC, but he ignores how Net Neutrality is already...
Net Neutrality: Beginning of the End of the Internet?
The FCC voted yesterday to begin regulating the Internet as a public utility under a plan known as Net Neutrality. Let that sink in. The federal government will regulate...
Your Smart TV Is Spying on You
In the "Internet of Things" in which people now live, there are a variety of devices that use the Internet connectivity to improve functionality. A recent development in Smart...
FBI Wrong on Sony Hack
The FBI claims that, based on government spying operations, it is sure that North Korea hacked Sony Pictures. But the FBI has been called out by private-sector analysts. ...
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“Old Fashioned”: Black and White Values in an Age of Shades of Grey
For this Valentine's Day weekend, moviegoers looking for a date-night movie with their significant other have a choice between two extremes. On one end of the spectrum is Fifty...
Net Neutrality Is a Trojan Horse Virus Infecting the Internet
Last week Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, published an op-ed piece for Wired which laid out his strategy to "ensure net neutrality" by treating the Internet as a...
British Spy Agency Harvested E-mails From U.S., U.K. Media
During a 10-minute period one day in November 2008, British spies vacuumed up 70,000 e-mails to and from journalists at major media outlets in the United States and the...