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Fighting for Privacy: Apple Resists Order to Decrypt Terrorist’s iPhone

Earlier this week, a District Court Judge ordered Apple to build a backdoor into the encryption software used in the iOS platform used...

C. Mitchell Shaw February 19, 2016

Ousted Mozilla CEO Is Changing the Web Again

C. Mitchell Shaw January 29, 2016

After Brendan Eich resigned as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation amid controversy when it was revealed that he had given $1,000 to support...

Manhattan DA Fails to Make the Case Against Encryption

C. Mitchell Shaw January 1, 2016

Last month Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. released a report claiming that new encrypted devices pose "a threat to law enforcement efforts"...

N.C. Senator Calls for “Backdoors” in Encryption

C. Mitchell Shaw December 30, 2015

Last week, Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote an error-laden piece for the Wall Street Journal in...

Google Uses Education Apps to Spy on Students

C. Mitchell Shaw December 10, 2015

A non-profit organization dedicated to exposing threats to digital liberties and preserving those liberties has accused Google of spying on students via the...

Windows 10 Is Malware; Deletes Users’ Programs

C. Mitchell Shaw November 25, 2015

Windows 10 seems to be Microsoft's deliberate attempt to create the most intrusive operating system ever. If that is the goal, the software...

Surveillance Hawks Blame Cryptography for Paris Attacks

C. Mitchell Shaw November 19, 2015

Unsurprisingly, in the wake of last week's deadly attacks in Paris, there has been an escalating demand — by those always in favor of...

Net Neutrality Puts Political Websites in the Crosshairs of Censorship

C. Mitchell Shaw November 18, 2015

When Net Neutrality was sold to the American people, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler promised there would be no regulation of content. No censorship....

Net Neutrality Faces New Challenges

C. Mitchell Shaw November 18, 2015

With a 3-2 vote on February 26, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reclassified the Internet as a public utility under Title II...

Globalists and UN Push Mandatory Biometric ID for All

Alex Newman November 9, 2015

In an effort to bring every last person into the “system,” so to speak, governments, globalist forces, and the United Nations want to...

Microsoft: Windows 10 Reports on Users; Can’t Be Stopped

C. Mitchell Shaw November 5, 2015

When Microsoft released Windows 10 on July 29, the new operating system was already mired in controversy due to the way it monitors...

CISA Passes Senate, Threatens Liberty and Privacy

C. Mitchell Shaw October 30, 2015

On Tuesday, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by a vote of 74-21. It has the tech industry and the...

Communist China Demands Global “Code of Conduct” for Internet

Alex Newman October 12, 2015

With one of its own agents leading the United Nations agency that globalists hope will regulate the Internet, the communist dictatorship ruling mainland...