How to Opt Out of AT&T’s Sale of Your Personal Information
Jul 9, 2013 Last week, AT&T quietly updated its privacy policy to include details about how it will begin to sell customers' personal data to the highest bidder.
Video Allegedly Shows Police Beating David Silva to Death
May 16, 2013 After allegedly beating 33-year-old David Sal Silva to death last week, Kern County, Calif., officers reportedly confiscated cellphones from multiple witnesses containing videos of the incident. One piece of footage they apparently weren't able to take away, however, is a grainy black and white surveillance video that shows parts of the encounter.
Watch: Newt Gingrich ‘Really Puzzled’ About Smartphones
May 14, 2013 "Here at Gingrich Productions, we've spent weeks figuring out what do you call this," a completely serious Gingrich says holding up a smartphone. Now he's asking for your help to name something that already has a name.
T-Mobile to ‘Stop the Bullshit’
Mar 27, 2013 Not minding his corporate manners, the CEO of the nation's fourth-largest carrier announced that his company plans to take much better care of its customers than any of its rivals.
Cellphone Prison
Feb 1, 2013
Your Phone, the Snitch
Jul 10, 2012 Devices that intercept calls and text messages and dig into data stored on your mobile phone are being marketed to police departments across the United States “as being perfect for covert operations in public order situations.” Or, as the ACLU’s Privacy SOS blog puts it: protests.
What Your Cellphone Tells the Police Behind Your Back
Jul 10, 2012 It turns out you've been carrying a snitch around in your pocket. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., announced Monday that the nation's wireless providers complied with 1.3 million requests in 2011 for private data, including location and text messages.
Postgrad Elites Control Political Debates
Jul 4, 2012 Trying to sort out the status of Obamacare can be tricky thanks to our dysfunctional leadership class; Republican state Sen. Marty Golden wants to teach Brooklyn's women "the art of feminine presence"; meanwhile, a group of Mormons quits the church in a mass ceremony in Utah. These discoveries and more after the jump.
21st Century Playground
May 29, 2012
The Deadly Business of Climbing Cell Towers
May 23, 2012 Corporate giants have outsourced the dangerous work of building and maintaining communications towers to tiny subcontracting companies. Over the last nine years, nearly 100 workers have died, 50 of them on cell sites.
