Infowars A news radio station in New York reports that the broadband and telecommunications company Verizon is now scanning customer email. “Verizon scans the digital signatures of all inbound and outbound email messages to reduce the overall volume of spam… Continue Reading
Christopher Zara International Business Times News that Google Inc. may be developing a television set-top box with a motion sensor and video camera has rekindled the debate over technology that can record so-called ambient action. Should a TV-mounted box have… Continue Reading
Glenn Greenwald The Guardian The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy… Continue Reading
by Cyrus Farivar arstechnica.com Earlier this week, the Copyright Alert System (CAS)—better known as “six strikes”—finally debuted. Both Verizon and Comcast activated the service on Wednesday. The new system is funded by a group known as the Center for Copyright… Continue Reading
Declan McCullagh news.cnet.com Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New… Continue Reading