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EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour
EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour A major factor that social media and internet companies have had to deal with in recent years is hateful or illegal content people posted on their sites. It has gotten to the point that many companies have to specifically…
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Woman Gets X-Rayed Because She Didn’t Want To Leave Her Bag
Woman gets free x-ray in luggage scanner Given the way the modern world it, it isn’t unusual anymore for your possessions to be x-rayed before entering a public or government building. It’s quite a common thing and most of us don’t grumble about it. One woman, however, got a free…
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Security Minister to Social Media: “Fight Extremism or Face Tax Penalties”
UK Security Minister Ben Wallace is lashing out at tech giants and social media platforms Facebook, Google and YouTube. Not mincing any words, he called them “Ruthless profiteers” in an interview with The Sunday Times. That is for what he says is a failure to address the danger of the…
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Calls For Tech Companies To Pay ‘Terrorism Taxes’
Uk Security Minister Proposes ‘Terrorism Tax’ The role that technology giants play in enabling terrorism is certainly one of concern for many. The utilisation, particularly of social media websites to spread terrorism is certainly one of the main key highlights. So much so that the UK security Minister Ben Wallace…
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A Chinese Newspaper Issues Nuclear Attack Survival Tips
Chinese provincial Newspaper issues full-page advice sheet on how to survive a nuclear attack How to survive a nuclear attack? Be as far away from it as possible. That would be my advice if I was asked. A Chinese provincial newspaper has, however, issued a full-page spread, along with cartoons,…
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Osama Bin Laden While in Hiding Watched Cat Videos and Played Final Fantasy VII
Osama Bin Laden’s hard drive content! It is a common internet joke and meme, ‘in the event of my death delete my computers history’. It seems, however, that former terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden did not believe in such things. Then again, I guess he didn’t exactly see it coming, did…
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Security Researcher says Islamic State Hackers are ‘Garbage at Coding’
Their Poor ability severely restricts the risk says Security Researcher Generally speaking, whenever one hears about Islamic State, it’s often not good. On this occasion, it seems that there is some positive news for us all. A senior researcher, who specializes in internet security has called the terrorist groups online…
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Donald Trump Calls for the Internet to be “Cut Off” to Prevent Terrorism
Donald Trump – A divisive figure making devices comments Donald Trump has always endeavored to be as uncontroversial as possible with his comments. Ok, no, he hasn’t, but this latest one is certainly going to get people talking. Following the terrorist attack on the London Underground, Donald Trump has said that the…
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British Prime Minister Issues Warning to Internet Giants Over Extremist Material
British Prime Minister Theresa May has issued a warning to internet giants such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter that “action” will be taken if they are found to host any extremist materials. Mrs May has said in an interview that “We continue to talk to the companies…” “We think that…
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British Man Charged for Terror Hoax Call and ‘Swatting’ US Gamer
Robert McDaid, a 21-year old from Coventry has become the first non-US citizen to be charged for “Swatting” and calling in a terror hoax to a Maryland-based terrorism tip-line. If convicted, he could face up to 20-years in prison for helping another American gamer Zachary Lee who asked him to…
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Qatar Airways to Offer Laptops on Flights as Workaround for Device Travel Ban
The recent electronic device travel ban on US-bound flights have left many business-class travelers without anything productive to do during the long flight. Usually these flights are a chance for many of them to get some work done undisturbed, but the electronic device travel ban limits the use of any…
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Terrorist Plot to put Explosives Inside iPads Led to US-UK Device Travel Ban
The US Department of Homeland Security has quietly issued a device travel ban last week preventing users from bringing in electronic devices larger than smartphones such as laptops and tablets on their carry on luggage if they are flying in specifically from 10 airports from the Middle-East and North Africa.…
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97 Tech Firms File Brief Challenging Trump’s Immigration Ban
Over the past week, President Trump has been facing intense backlash from the tech industry over his controversial executive order halting immigration from 7 countries. Washington state filed a lawsuit joined by Microsoft challenging the executive order on constitutional grounds. Since the order has been halted on a judicial emergency stay, the…
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French Man Sentenced to Two-Years in Prison for Visiting Pro-ISIS Website
The French government is not taking any threats of terrorism lightly, sentencing an 18-year old teen several weeks ago for naming his Wi-Fi SSID “Daesh21”, but now have also has sentenced another man for visiting Pro-ISIS websites. The man was convicted on Tuesday and was not known previously to the…
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French Teen Names WiFi After ISIS – Gets Suspended Jail Sentence
Coming up with creative names for you Wi-Fi is almost a tradition in the tech world, and can often be pretty hilarious. However, it seems not everyone thinks logically before naming their Wi-Fi, such as a teen in France, who has been convicted in court for naming his Wi-Fi “Daesh21” after…
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