Tag: Watchdog

Snowden slams FBI for perjury

Snowden slams FBI for perjury

Rudy Takala · March 22, 2016 12:34 pm

"Those are questions you'd have to ask each of Hillary Clinton and anyone associated with Hillary Clinton." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

DNC chair dodges on whether Clinton would talk to FBI

Rudy Takala · March 22, 2016 5:12 am

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has insisted the president had no influence over the process. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

House panel to grill FCC on White House role in agency’s power grab

Rudy Takala · March 22, 2016 4:01 am

"We did not expect to be in this position at odds with our own government," Tim Cook said at the ceremony for the new iPhone SE. (AP Photo)

Apple CEO vows to protect customers from the feds

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 9:02 pm

"The three teams in Paris were comparatively disciplined," according to a 55-page report compiled by French authorities and reported by The New York Times over the weekend. (AP Photo)

National Security

Report: Paris terrorists used phones without encryption

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 4:42 pm

Professor Matthew Green suggested that if his team was able to discover a flaw in iMessages, it was likely that other flaws exist on Apple products that law enforcement officials should be able to discover. (iStock photo)

Researchers discover security flaw in Apple messaging

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 3:29 pm

Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, said on Monday that the media is too hard on Hillary Clinton, most likely because Clinton is a woman. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

Former NYT editor: Media too hard on Clinton

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 2:56 pm

Report reveals Apple ‘privacy czars’

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 1:54 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is facing a federal indictment over charges that she mishandled classified information during her tenure as secretary of state by storing it on a personal email server. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Report: FBI ‘increasingly certain’ Clinton broke the law

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 12:55 pm

"The plan could play a meaningful role in cementing monopoly market power for companies like Google, Facebook or Twitter in secret-selling by regulating potential competitors out of business altogether," said Fred Campbell, director of Tech Knowledge and a professor of telecommunications law.

FCC rules could boost tech giants’ control over personal data

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 4:01 am

Clinton email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Syria’s Assad

Clinton email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Syria’s Assad

Rudy Takala · March 19, 2016 9:30 pm

The Obama administration has set a new record for rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a new report. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Report: Obama denied a record 77 percent of FOIA requests

Rudy Takala · March 19, 2016 12:42 am