Save the Internet: FCC Unveils Plan to Rollback Net-Neutrality Rules

After crushing a set of privacy rules on ISPs that restrict them from sharing your online data with third parties without your consent, President Donald Trump’s newly appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai has announced the first move in its efforts to kill o… Continue reading Save the Internet: FCC Unveils Plan to Rollback Net-Neutrality Rules

WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee opposes encryption backdoors

As the de-facto inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s opinions on things like online privacy and encryption backdoors should carry a lot more weight than those of most people. Why encryption backdoors are a no-no As he accepted this year’s A.M. Turing Award (aka the “Nobel Prize of Computing”), Berners-Lee noted that governments’ wish and intent to weaken encryption by forcing companies to create backdoors into the technology is a really bad … More Continue reading WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee opposes encryption backdoors