Alfredo Lopez

Alfredo Lopez writes about technology issues for This Can’t Be Happening!

Justice Department’s Dreamhost Subpoena Ramps Up the Police State

The Whattsapp Scandal

A Scandal that Reveals More Than It Says: Yahoo Scanned All Users’ Mail for the Government

Where the Bern is Fizzling: Why Sanders Can’t Win the Support of People of Color

Apple Champions Privacy; Government Seeks to Trash It

The ‘Bern’ and the Internet

Binge On, Opt In, Truth Out: Is T-Mobile’s Video App an Attack on Net Neutrality?

The Zuckerberg Family Donation and a Legacy of Control

The TPP: An Attack on the Internet

EU Court Declares NSA Surveillance Illegal

EU Court Advocate General Deals Severe Blow to NSA Surveillance

The Senate Wants to Make Internet Providers Spies

Ellen Pao’s Resignation from Reddit

USA Freedom Act is Anything But

The Encryption Debate is Really About How Best to Spy on You

The Government/Corporate Debate on Encryption

Barbie the Spy!

Venezuela’s Continuous Coup

Venezuela’s Continuous Coup

Wheeler’s Moment of Clarity

‘Gagged’ by the Government

Obama on Net Neutrality: Principle or Politics?

Why Apple and Google’s Latest Marketing Ploy Won’t Protect You at All

Hackers Used Government Spyware to Data-Rob iCloud

Time Warner Customers of the World Unite!

Of Russian Hackers and Google Cops

FaceBook Experiments with Manipulating Your Mind

USA Freedom Act has Nothing to Do With Freedom

Companies and FCC in Net Neutrality Scuffle

FCC Wants to Give Corporations Their Own Internet

The Internet is Alive and Well!

USAID Caught Using Tweets to Try and Overthrow a Government

The Drones of Facebook (and the NSA)

Barrett Brown’s Partial Victory: Crowd-Sourcing and Crowd Support

Playing Real-Life Monopoly

Obama’s NSA Speech: Nothing Will Change

The NSA’s Band of Technology Criminals

The NSA Paid to Steal Your Private Data

It’s been a ‘Catch-22’

The Hero and the Villains: The Jeremy Hammond Sentence

The NSA’s Invasion of Google and Yahoo Servers

Stallman, FOSS and the Adobe Nightmare

The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy

Internet Hackers and the Real Threat They Expose

Firings at AOL’s Patch a Study in Corporate Myopia

Lavabit’s Profile in Corporate Principles and Personal Courage

A Devastating Verdict

Jay Z’s App and Obama’s Criminal Enterprise

The Snowden Controversy and Our Legacy of Choices

Lessons of the Snowden Revelations