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UK Snooping on Citizens for Years; Bill Gates, Tim Cook for VP?

Posted October 18th, 2016 at 12:56 pm (UTC-4)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: UK Spies Have Been Snooping on Citizens Since 1998 Britain’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal found that intelligence agencies have been running bulk data-collection programs for the last 17 years, in violation of EU privacy protections in many cases. Web traffic, location and device data, biographies, and financial activities were all collected for years […]

Indonesia’s Google Balloons; the Threat to Apple; 000Webhost Hacked

Posted October 29th, 2015 at 11:00 am (UTC-4)
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Today’s Tech Sightings: Alphabet, Indonesian Firms to Expand Web Access via Balloons Three Indonesian telecommunications firms and Google’s holding company, Alphabet, signed an agreement Wednesday to use Google’s solar-powered balloons to expand Internet access. In 2016, Alphabet’s Project Loon will launch hundreds of balloons over the archipelago nation, comprised of more than 17,000 islands, to […]