The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal complaint accusing the nation’s largest wireless carriers of “deceptive” business practices for failing to keep the software on tens of millions of Android smartphones updated — a shortcoming that can make the devices vulnerable to hackers.
The FCC faces questions and challenges as it awaits a new chairman
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A Q&A with Phil Weiser -- a former senior adviser for Obama on technology and innovation, and current dean of the University of Colorado’s law school.
Hey Internet, where’s the outrage?
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Compare, for a moment, the Internet industry’s outrage against potential government censorship, as they see it, with the seeming indifference to government surveillance. In 2012, major Web sites staged a massive global protest against a law that would have given the government new powers to shut down sites associated with piracy. Yet, as Congress considers sweeping new surveillance procedures over popular Internet companies, those same digital activists are largely silent. It begs the question, does this younger, tech-savvy generation care more about innovation than civil liberties?