This Drone Is After Your Phone (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 22, 2014 Hackers have developed a drone that can pluck the contents of your smartphone -- from your location data to your shopping passwords -- from the sky. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Going to the Sochi Olympics? Be Prepared to Have Every Gadget You Own Hacked

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Government Urges Free Wi-Fi Service

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2013 Not surprisingly, the idea is being met with resistance by the $178 billion wireless industry, which is actively lobbying policymakers against the proposal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pirates Beware: The U.K. Is Handing Over Your Loot

Staff / Truthdig Dec 24, 2012 The government of the United Kingdom plans to allow copyrighted material to be copied for personal use; Julian Assange gives kudos to Bradley Manning from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London; meanwhile, South Africa's ruling party has called for an official boycott of Israel. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

American Media, Stay Away From Me

Staff / Truthdig Dec 4, 2011 American news media outlets such as Time and Newsweek are keeping the U.S. in the dark about world issues; a Silicon Valley startup has dreamed up a ship for international techies to avoid immigration problems; and Wi-Fi and cellphones are making us sick—or are they? These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Glenn Greenwald on the Growing Surveillance State

Staff / Truthdig Aug 20, 2011 Days after two British men were sentenced to four years in prison for using Facebook to incite disorder that never materialized, Glenn Greenwald writes fluently and concisely about the efforts of governments to maintain power and order by controlling the flow of information and communication online. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

In Defense of NPR

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2011 Bill Moyers comes to the defense of NPR, a London university was warned against taking money from the Gadhafi family, and communism's role in universal Wi-Fi. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Google Under Privacy Investigation Again

Staff / Truthdig Oct 25, 2010 Google is back in the privacy hot seat, as Britain's privacy commission says it will once again investigate the kind and amount of personal information that the Internet search giant gathered from private Wi-Fi networks as its Google Street View cars patrolled. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FCC Rules for Super Wi-Fi

Staff / Truthdig Sep 25, 2010 It's a bird? It's a plane? No, it's super Wi-Fi! The FCC has finally approved a proposal to open the unused space between broadcast television channels -- dubbed “white space” -- for high-speed wireless broadband or, in more campy terms, super Wi-Fi. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google to Hand Over Data Collected During Photo-Mapping

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2010 Google said it will hand over wireless network data that was collected by fleets of vehicles shooting photographs for the search giant's Street View mapping service as it tries to resolve a privacy row with European regulators. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Admits Data Audit Accusation

Staff / Truthdig May 15, 2010 In an announcement following a data audit by Germany's data protection authority, Google has admitted to accidentally sampling payload data from open Wi-Fi networks as its Google Maps mobiles traversed the globe's streets. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )