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EU Code of Conduct Hopes to Tackle Hate Speech Online
Every time you go online you risk many things, from companies taking your details and advertising to you with ads from all over the internet or at the worst cases, the people online can leave rather hateful comments. With harmful comments appearing on pages and forums all over the internet…
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Clean Energy Rules Backed by Leading Tech Companies
People like the idea of clean energy, the ability for us to generate more energy than we use all from renewable sources that don’t damage the environment. France requires that new buildings have solar panels or grass on the roofs, and an Indian airport has decided that solar power is…
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New Bill Being Proposed in California to Combat Burner Phones
Technology and the law are constantly racing, with each one taking steps to catch up with the other. From the arguments Apple and the FBI are having regarding privacy and encryption to something as simple as Segways being illegal in public, technology is creating new gadgets and systems and the law…
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China Looking at Creating “Precrime” System
When people start to think about digital surveillance and their data stored online, they think about cases such as Apple vs the FBI where modern technology is used to try track down criminals or find out more about what could have or has happened. China looks to go a step further…
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New Bill Prevents Federal Agencies Purchasing Apple Products
Apple is currently in congress talking to and explaining the impact that removing or bypassing protection on their iPhones would have if they followed a court order to do so for the FBI. In what may seem like a childish move a congressman has now introduced a bill that would…
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Microsoft Supports Apple in FBI Encryption Case
Speaking at a hearing today, Microsoft president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith announced that the company ‘wholeheartedly’ support one of their competitors, Apple in the long-running case between Apple and the FBI. In case you’ve not heard about the ongoing battle, the FBI have ordered Apple to remove the…
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UK Government Changes Law Covering Digital Surveillance
Edward Snowden exposed a world which some speculated, but few publically acknowledged. A world where every piece of information we send, be it through phone or computer, is monitored and recorded among thousands of others all searching for that one thing. The public has since been in an up cry…
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Metadata Spying Not Covered by the Patriot Act
Edward Snowden. A name that is known in most households, the guy that blew the whistle on the giant listening and surveillance operations being run out of America. However one of these operations, observing and collecting metadata, has been ruled by a federal appeal as having not been authorised by the…
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No More FCC Labels on Your Devices
Today President Obama signed into US law the E-Label Act, an act introduced by two Senators earlier in 2015, ending the mandatory requirement for physical FCC labels on devices. The law allows manufacturers to include the FCC labels in their software rather than having to etch them onto the device’s exterior.…
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New CISPA Regulations Could Classify Netflix as a “Cybersecurity Threat”
It appears that a new cybersecurity bill currently going through the Senate is considered too ‘broad’ and would grant ISPs the liberty to limit streaming services’ delivery to customers, having Netflix given as an example. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Protection Act of 2014, which has been rallied against twice already,…
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