Off The Grid News Better Ideas For Off The Grid Living

Microsoft and Google don’t want anything more to do with the National Security Agency’s surveillance of Internet communications. The two tech giants have uncharacteristically banded together to sue the Department of Justice for the right to release more of what ...

Many of America’s largest corporations now believe the electric grid is unreliable and are quietly developing the capability to operate without it. Companies in a wide variety of industries are scrambling to produce their own energy. Retailers, technology companies, and ...

Google might just be a bigger threat to your privacy than the surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency. Recent news articles show that the online giant, which operates the world’s most popular search engine, has little regard for ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to get federal wiretapping laws changed to give it the power to force Internet providers to spy on you. The Bureau has been trying to force companies like Google and Facebook to build ...

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind,” said famed champion of individualism Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unfortunately, even the last refuge of privacy, our thoughts, is under attack. From the Electronic Communications Act of 1986 to ...

Google’s driverless car has been getting a lot of press of late, and not all of it has been favorable. The reason for concern is the fact Google is using the vehicles to gather information from unprotected Wi-Fi sources. As ...

Though it should be common knowledge in this tech-savvy age, many people are still unaware that e-mail is far from private. Up until now, government and law enforcement could legally examine, store, and search your e-mail with no need for ...

Hello folks, My name is Bob Whitten. I’m just a “regular Joe,” trying to get the most out of life with the time I have left here on this Earth. I am recently retired from years of running newspaper printing ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The relationship between search engine giant, Google, and agencies of the federal government is under the spotlight again. First it was Google’s partnership with the National Security Agency and now with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ...

MOUNTAINVIEW, CA – Search engine giant Google has elicited a new round of privacy concerns by forcing users to decode blurred photos of private house numbers to access their own accounts. As part of a security checks test, Internet users ...