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Children should not be allowed smartphones until they are 16, says school behaviour expert
Fears over the disruption to classrooms from pupils using smartphones have prompted the Government to commission a review into the way technology affects behaviour …
India exempts social media from encryption policy
The Indian government has exempted social media applications from a new encryption policy after public uproar over the proposed measures. The new law would …
Snowden: Others Get Prosecuted for What Hillary Clinton Did
THE NSA WAS sloppy about guarding its classified secrets from Edward Snowden, but no one at the agency is in danger of being prosecuted …
Carly Fiorina calls on Apple, Google to provide greater access for FBI
Republican presidential candidate and former tech-executive Carly Fiorina has called on Apple and Google to provide greater access to information about their users to …
AT&T’s ‘extraordinary, decades-long’ relationship with NSA
The telecoms giant AT&T has had an “extraordinary, decades-long” relationship with the National Security Agency, it was reported on Saturday. Citing newly disclosed NSA …
From Wild Drinking, Drugs Scandal to Cyber Security Savior?
A U.S. government contractor, several of whose employees were caught on video drunk and drugged on a sensitive security mission in Afghanistan, is now …
Does the government really want to ban WhatsApp, iMessage and Skype?
Eight hundred million people around the world use WhatsApp to communicate, we learned this week from its owners, Facebook. Yet this is the messaging …
Facebook’s Use of Facial-Recognition Tool Draws Privacy Ire
When you are identified in a picture on Facebook, biometric software remembers your face so it can be “tagged” in other photographs. Facebook Inc. …
Has China silenced its bloggers?
Two years ago Sina Weibo – China’s equivalent of Twitter – was crawling with tales of political scandal. Today those stories are harder to …
Scott McNealy on privacy: You still don’t have any
Scott McNealy is best known for his role as cofounder and long-serving CEO at Sun Microsystems, but some remember him even better for a …