Apple puts profit and market access ahead of principles. Apple has bowed pressure from the Chinese government and has admitted it has removed all VPN (Virtual Private Network) services from the Chinese App store. VPNs allow users to bypass China’s so-called “Great Firewall” aimed at restricting access to overseas... Read more
UK Parliament Hacked By Foreign Operatives
News June 27, 2017
Email accounts of MPs, peers, and staff were compromised during the cyber-attack. In what is already being blamed as a “state sponsored” attack, Britain’s Parliament shut down all access to its email system over the weekend following signs that someone had gained unauthorized access to the system. This event... Read more
Issue due to error by private contractor running Republican National Committee database. The data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was left sitting on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server. Roughly 61% of the population of the USA has had information about their political leanings alongside home... Read more
Political Winds Of Change Affect Tech Industry In Many Ways
News March 14, 2017
Travel bans, import tarifis, and the impact on Silicon Valley. When the current US presidential administration first began releasing a series of executive orders in January, the public outcry was immediate and angry. One order in particular barred immigration and visitation from several Muslim countries, and the reaction from... Read more
Word From Our Editor: Tech Prices Take Advantage Of World Politics
News February 24, 2017
Apple, Dell, Microsoft and now Sonos. The list of those profiting from global events keeps growing. We live in constantly changing and uncertain times. From Brexit to the American election, there’s been massive upheaval in the political, and economic, landscape for many months now. And these politico-economic changes appear... Read more
Travis Kalanick leaves advisory economic council after intense criticism and viral online boycott of Uber. In an email to staff that was subsequently leaked to several news agencies, Kalanick said: “Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the president or his agenda but unfortunately it... Read more
Trump’s Power Trip Spells Trouble For Silicon Valley
News February 3, 2017
Tech and internet giants are hitting back against the latest White House decision. The internet is experiencing a very real phenomenon of fatigue and overload related to political news, and yet somehow, every day seems to bring a fresh new crop of controversy and outcry. The most recent Donald... Read more
Executives and lawyers from some of the biggest tech companies in US meet to discuss lawsuit against new immigration order. The meeting, called by GitHub, a company that makes several prominent software tools, expected to be host to some of the most well-known brands in the world, a spokesman... Read more
Trump Threatens Privacy Shield Agreement
News January 30, 2017
Decision will affect personal privacy and risks impacting on Silicon Valley tech giants. There has been a flurry of executive order activity coming from the White House in the few days that the new leader has taken power, and the lightning speed with which these orders are flying off... Read more
Anonymous Declares War On Trump
News January 23, 2017
Hacktivist group Anonymous turns attention to Donald Trump If you’re reading this, the world didn’t end like some people feared. Yes, the US Presidential inauguration may have gone ahead as planned, but the Y2K-like predictions of planes falling from the sky did not. One group, however, has threatened to spend... Read more
With all the media attention – hourly, if you’ve been following along for any amount of time – focused on the PEOTUS right now, it’s easy to forget that he’s already been something of a celebrity for the past few decades. He’s even been a past political figure in... Read more
There’s a major undertaking afoot, one that has brought together numerous agencies and volunteers in a race against the proverbial clock. Entire teams of librarians are working tirelessly to harvest information from government websites and store it in archives before it can be deleted following the inauguration of the... Read more
Obama Fingers Putin Over US Election Hacking And Criticises Media
News December 20, 2016
In his final press conference of 2016, President Barack Obama pretty much accused Russian President Vladimir Putin as the mind behind Moscow’s alleged attempts to meddle in the US election. The outgoing president, who leaves office on January 20th, also used the opportunity to criticise the media for its... Read more