The FBI recruited Best Buy employees as an arm of the law, but did it breach citizens' Fourth Amendment rights? That plus Android P and HTC phone feedback on our show!
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Was the support team of Best Buy acting on behalf of the federal government to sweep up evidence for child porn possession prosecutions?
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which laid accusations against T-Mobile’s Binge On zero-rate program not being net neutral, is calling out said T-Mobile again for more bits of anti-net neutrality. This time, its targeting T-Mobile One, the carrier’s new one-for-all unlimited data ...
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Desktop and laptop computers are a huge mess of lax security. A program that you install on one of these devices is allowed by its operating systems to have virtually unlimited access to everything. Our mobile operating systems are a little more refined and most tell you, the end user, what access an application is requesting before you install it. Unfortunately, most of us don’t read those pesky permissions prompts and just say “yes” to everything. We are, however, given the chance to say “no”. Until somewhat recently that was our only option: either we ...
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