Porn Stars Show Us What the Internet Would Be Like Without Net Neutrality

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Nov 15, 2014 Still confused about the meaning of net neutrality? Watch a few adult film stars explain it in terms even Sen. Ted Cruz will understand in a new Funny or Die clip. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cable Lobby Admits to Funding Stealth Campaign Against Net Neutrality

Staff / Truthdig Oct 10, 2014 As the FCC considers how to regulate Internet providers, the telecom industry’s stealth campaign for hearts and minds encompasses everything from art installations to LOLcats. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Vodafone Reveals Government Wiretaps

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 6, 2014 The Britain-based multinational telecommunications company confirmed that a small number of governments have direct access to the information coursing through its networks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mexico’s Proposed Telecom Law Would Bring In Censorship, Allow Surveillance and Kill Net Neutrality

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Big Business Rewards California Democrats for Passing Model ALEC Legislation

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Mar 27, 2014 It may be “the most anti-consumer bill ever introduced in California," and it was approved and signed into law by Democrats. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Privacy Board Finds NSA Phone Data Surveillance System Illegal … and a Dud

Staff / Truthdig Jan 24, 2014 A five-member board tasked with evaluating the National Security Agency's telephone data surveillance program has come away with a distinctly different take on the matter from that of the president. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NSA Loophole Permits Warrantless Invasion of Americans’ Privacy

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 9, 2013 Top secret documents passed to The Guardian by Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency has a "secret backdoor" into its databases that allows its agents to search U.S. citizens' email and phone calls without a warrant or other oversight. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.N. Conference Produces No Internet Treaty

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 15, 2012 The failure to concur on a global Internet treaty at the end of a two-week summit Friday “seems to safeguard the role of the Internet as an unregulated, international service free of direct interference by national governments,” The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Dismisses Eavesdropping Lawsuit

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Oct 10, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case against the nation's telecommunications companies for cooperating with a once-secret wiretap program enacted by the Bush administration to monitor suspected terrorists. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Privacy by Design

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 24, 2012 Nicholas Merrill is tired of waiting for Congress to protect Americans' privacy online So he plans to force the matter by changing the way telecommunication companies do business So he plans to change the way telecommunication companies do business. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Forget ‘Cellphone,’ That’s a ‘Tracker’ in Your Pocket

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 16, 2012 Mobile phone service providers collect user information and share it with the government, to the tune of at least 1.3 million disclosures per year. What if our nomenclature reflected that? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Justice Dept. Hangs Up on AT&T Deal for T-Mobile

Staff / Truthdig Aug 31, 2011 The U.S. Justice Department sued Wednesday to prevent AT&T's hoped-for merger with T-Mobile, a $39 billion deal that would create the largest telephone carrier in the country with almost 130 million subscribers. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )