Linkpost | 12.12.2013
• Apple Adds ABC, Bloomberg, Crackle, and KORTV Channels to Apple TV – The channel lineup for Apple TV continues to grow. Most notable is the addition of Watch ABC, which lets you watch network shows...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.13.2013
• FCC vote opens door to end ban on in-flight calls – The FCC votes 3-2 to approve cell phone calls on flights, but DOT will consider banning cell phone calls on planes • US carriers agree to unlock...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.15.2013
• How Americans Were Deceived About Cell Phone Location Data – NSA officials fudged wording and reporters – and some members of Congress – bought it. Also By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.16.2013
• The NSA: An Inside View – A former NSA employee writes that you shouldn’t worry about the agency scooping up your private information in its surveillance because, basically, you’re too boring for the...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.17.2013
• NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules – The judge has delayed a preliminary injunction on the phone metadata collection program until the government can appeal....
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.18.2013
• Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting – The White House wanted to focus the meeting of top tech executives – including Tim Cook of Apple, Eric Schmidt of Google and...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.19.2013
• Target Hit by Credit-Card Breach – Hackers accessed the systems of Target’s brick-and-mortar stores and stole the data from the magnetic stripes on customers’ credit and debit cards. As many as 40...
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NSA spied on Muslim-Americans, including ex-Bay Area professor, Greenwald...
The National Security Agency has been secretly monitoring the e-mails of prominent Muslim-Americans — including a former Cal State professor — journalist Glenn Greenwald reports Wednesday, based on...
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British leader David Cameron wants more surveillance of citizens
While tech companies and privacy advocates want less surveillance in the U.S., the British government will consider emergency measures Monday that would force online and phone companies to retain more...
View ArticleSF Cops: Burglaries up, and more reported because of video
We just got an update from San Francisco police spokesman Gordon Shyy in the wake of our recent post about how San Francisco startups have been broken into recently — and snagged video footage of one...
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