Category: data requests

Google stops responding to data requests from Hong Kong authorities

Post author By Randall
Post date August 14, 2020
Categories In authorities, China, data, data requests, gear, Google, hong kong, law, national security, News, Tech

[ad_1] Until recently, Hong Kong has had an open and free internet, unlike mainland China. Some fear the law has the ability to make individuals and companies remove content. As The Washington Post explains it “targets vaguely defined crimes including subversion of state power, collusion with foreign powers, secession and terrorism.” After the law was […]

DoJ pushes Google and Apple to ID 10,000 users of a gun scope app

Post author By Randall
Post date September 6, 2019
Categories In american technologies network, app, Apple, business, data, data requests, feds, gear, Google, gun, ice, immigration and customs enforcement, investigation, ip address, Mobile, names, obsidian 4, phone numbers, Politics, Privacy, request, rifle, Security, Tech, users

[ad_1] The app in question is Obsidian 4, which controls rifle scopes by American Technologies Network (ATN) Corp. It has more than 10,000 downloads on Google Play, and it’s unknown how many times it’s been downloaded through the App Store. As Forbes explains, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department is investigating illegal ATN scope […]