The latest campaign from supporters of the Anonymous hacktivist movement is focusing attention on the Democratic Republic of Congo, where multinationals are accused of trafficking in coltan, a mineral central to phone and laptop manufacturing.
‘Cloud protesting’ helped the Occupy protest movement grow at unprecedented speed throughout the world, but has also led to something of an identity crisis. Now Occupy must make itself the sum of its parts, and rally the 99% once more.
The National Security Agency in the US has launched its prototype for a new “Security Enhanced” Android phone. But doubts surround the motivations of an agency whose express purpose is to spy on telecommunications.