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‘Handful of Senators’ Blocking Patriot Act Extension
US President Barack Obama has blamed a “handful of senators” for blocking the USA Freedom Act, designed to extend the mass surveillance legislated by section 215 of the infamous Patriot Act, which expires on 1st June. Obama has told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he expects senators who are…
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Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Email
According to the New York Times, Russian hackers may have gotten access to Obama’s White House email. While the White House itself has been silent on the issue, the emails were likely accessed during a hack related to the recent power outage. Sources with knowledge of the previous hack noted…
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Google Said to Have Regular Meetings with White House Officials
The Wall Street Journal apparently got their hands on some visitor logs and emails linking high-ranking Google employees, including Eric Schmidt, meeting with White House officials 230 times across two terms, adding up to once a week meet-ups in the last four years. Some of the meetings also look to…
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Donating to Snowden Now Illegal in the US; Guilty Parties Can Have Assets Seized
The White House has issued an emergency executive order that effectively prevents US citizens from donating money to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for fear of having their assets seized. The order is designed to choke funds for “malicious cyber-enabled activities” launched by persons outside of the United States. Though the…
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Data Sharing between Major Video Game Companies and US Government Coming
In the wake of the recent hacks, President Obama is doing his best to increase data sharing between all major companies and the federal government. He is doing this using the controversial new Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act. As sighted by an email fact sheet from the White House,…
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WhiteHouse.gov SSL Certificate Expires – Chrome Issues Embarrassing Warning
Apparently you couldn’t trust the White House yesterday. Well, while some may say that everyday, you really shouldn’t have yesterday, according to Google that is. In an embarrassing blunder, the US government-owned site forgot to update its SSL certificate, resulting in insecure connections to the site, as well as the above warning…
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President Obama Writes His First Ever Line of Code
Barack Obama just finished his first ever line of code. The “Coder-in-Chief” wrote a line of Javascript with 20 middle school students as part of the Hour Of Code programme by Code.org. Code.org and The Hour of Code was set up with the intention of teaching as many people as possible, especially…
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22 People Vetted Mitt Romney’s Tweets During 2012 Election
We all know how social media has become the go to form of marketing for many organisations, including politics of course. But we also know how this can go completely wrong, when something goes out that shouldn’t have for instance. There are many examples of this, with a most recent one being…
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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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‘This Is Net Neutrality’ Coalition Fights for Global Internet Rights
In the wake of US President Barack Obama supporting a free and open internet, ISPs threatening to sue over potential restrictive legislation, and the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) stuck in the middle, trying to keep both sides happy, a coalition of diverse groups from all over the world, including Greenpeace,…
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FCC Warn: ISPs Will Sue Over Net Neutrality, Regardless
America’s ISPs will behave litigiously no matter what net neutrality laws are introduced, warns FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Wheeler told reporters that lawsuits are unavoidable, explaining why the FCC have been so cautious in their net neutrality contemplations. He explained, “Look, the big dogs are going to sue, regardless of…
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President Obama Still Uses a BlackBerry
CNN reports that US President Barack Obama still uses his trusty old BlackBerry. Surprising, considering he’s probably one of the few people left who actually does use a BlackBerry these days. Supposedly, the Secret Service and the NSA spent a great deal of time working on Obama’s BlackBerry, to make it…
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FCC Rejects Obama’s Net Neutrality Proposal
Following President Obama’s support for net neutrality, suggesting that the FCC invoke Title II legislation to protect broadband as a utility, Tom Wheeler, the Chairman of the FCC, has issued a defiant response: “I am an independent agency.” Obama proposed that Title II of the 1934 Communications Act be applied…
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AT&T Halt Fibre Investment Until Net Neutrality is Resolved
First, President Obama voiced his support for net neutrality, asking the FCC to apply Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to protect broadband as a utility. The ISPs responded by threatening to sue if the regulation was implemented. Then, the FCC puffed out its chest, asserting its autonomy…
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Obama Chimes in on Net Neutrality
US President Barack Obama has come out in support of net neutrality by suggesting that the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) reclassifies the internet as a utility. “To put these protections in place, I’m asking the FCC to reclassify internet service under Title II of a law known as the Telecommunications Act,”…
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