3D Printed Guns: More Freedom, Less Government
Legislators can pass laws requiring background checks and putting undesirables onto “no fly, no buy” lists all day long. But they will have precious little impact when people have the freedom...
Computers
Big Data Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
George Orwell may have imagined a world of total surveillance, but even his fertile imagination and acute understanding of totalitarianism did not foresee a world where the citizens demand, purchase, install,...
A Look Into the July 18th Issue of The New American!
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Clinton’s State Dept. Disabled Server Security, Risked National Security
Recently released e-mails show that Hillary Clinton's decision to use her own e-mail server directly threatened national security. During a period of multiple weeks in 2010, technical problems with Clinton's server...
Google Manipulates Searches, Clinton Campaign Benefits
It is now nearly certain that Hillary Clinton will be announced as the Democratic nominee at the convention in July. But how has she managed to gain the nomination with a...
Microsoft’s Deceptive Tactics Push Customers to Mac, Linux
Over the past few months, Microsoft has maintained a course that continues to anger and alienate users. Having converted the Windows operating system into a suite of spyware tools designed to...
Facebook Claims “Rogue Employees” May Have Been Biased Against Conservatives
Facebook has been fighting allegations that the social media site harbors a political bias against conservatives, but on Monday, the company announced that it would send employees for retraining and discontinue...
Founder of Ubuntu Linux: No Back Doors; No Weakening of Encryption
As Microsoft continues its trend of converting Windows into an operating system of spyware, more and more computer users are discovering the security, privacy, and liberty of Linux. Now, the company...
Facebook Filtering Users’ Timelines Stokes Concerns of Censorship and Data-Mining
Facebook has a long and checkered past concerning the way the company decides what a user sees in his or her timeline. Now, the social media giant is changing the formula...
Net Neutrality Will Regulate Internet Rates Despite Promises
When FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler launched the opening salvo in the battle to regulate the Internet, he said time and time again that Net Neutrality would not be used to regulate...
Ubuntu 16.04 Brings More Privacy and Big Changes to the Desktop
The release of Ubuntu 16.04 last week is good news for computer users who are upset over the recent development of Microsoft turning Windows into an operating system that is essentially...
Real Reason Behind Apple Case: War on Encryption
After months of legal battles, a public relations war, and congressional testimony over whether Apple should help the FBI break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters,...
Reddit Quietly Warns Users of Surveillance Request
Last week, a major player in the social media forum world used a legal hack to alert its subscribers that it had been served a National Security Letter (NSL). NSLs are...
FBI v. Apple Case: Government Smoke and Mirrors
After a month of claiming — in court documents, sworn testimony, and public statements — that “Apple has the exclusive technical means” to access the data on the encrypted iPhone 5C used by...
FBI, DOJ Postpone Hearing in San Bernardino iPhone Case
The FBI and Apple will not get their day in court. At least not yet. The hearing over whether Apple must weaken the safeguards around its own encryption at the behest...