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Julian Assange Has His Arrest Warrant Appeal Turned Down
Julian Assange Julian Assange, the founder of the website Wikileaks, had a date with the UK courts in regards to appealing his arrest warrant. Currently, in a form of exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he was hoping to be able to leave without finding the police waiting for him…
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The FBI is Allowed to Hack Anyone Anywhere!
When it comes to questionable legal practices, the FBI almost has a storybook written on it. From their part in the PRISM program, monitoring and tracking people from all over the world, the FBI became known for their questionable tactics, made worse so by the revelation that they had hacked…
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If An App Can Know Your Location – So Can The Police
One of the most unprecedented pieces of technology that we use these days is the GPS hardware found within your mobile phones. Being able to track and find information based on your location means that finding the nearest shop, cinema or toilets are just a button press away. With so…
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Warrant Used To Track Users Through Tor Invalidated
When it was revealed that an NIT (network investigative technique) had been used to track people across Tor, people were worried about just how they had got permission to deploy such a far sweeping piece of computer malware. It would now seem that the warrant issued didn’t give as much…
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Microsoft Is Suing The US Government Over Cloud Data Searches
Microsoft is but one of many technology firms that have recently moved their focus from internal hard drives to the cloud, allowing people to access their data from anywhere in the world given the right details. The problem is other people also have access to this information, both legally and…
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iPhone Unlocked By Fingerprint Because Of A Warrant From The LAPD
While we were so focused on the Apple Vs FBI court battle that was going on, it would seem that the FBI were up to their usual tricks. I refer to the first known case where a user was made to unlock their iPhone by fingerprint because of a warrant.…
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Judge Says Stingrays “Are Simply Too Powerful” Without Rules
Stingrays have become one of the most contested ways of digital surveillance since they became public knowledge last year. The devices act like mobile phone towers, simulating their actions while allowing them to intercept and identify the devices connecting to them. The problem many have seen with this device is…
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California’s Legal System Now Supports Digital Privacy
In recent years, there has been a big uproar courtesy of a certain reveal by a man named Edward Snowden, regarding digital privacy. To be more precise, it was about the lengths that groups went to in order to avoid any legal requirements when it came to accessing and using…
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North Dakota Police Will Utilize Weaponised Drones
Drones used to be a thing of the future, small robotic creatures that would fly around and swarm the skies. They would be included in Hollywood blockbusters such as Terminator and even the ones where they help us survive such as in Transformers. With devices that can seek and destroy…
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Government Looking for Exploits in Anti-Virus Software to Use Against You
Snowden’s latest leaked documents point to government agencies such as the NSA and GCHQ taking an interest in tracking user activity and spying on networks. However, to do that, they have to get one piece of software out-of-the-way; the anti-virus. This also seems to link with an earlier incident at…
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US Law Enforcement Offer $3M Reward for Gameover ZeuS Botnet Suspect
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program is offering a $3 million reward for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the man suspected of being the administrator of the devastating peer-to-peer botnet Gameover ZeuS. The Gameover ZeuS…
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Microsoft Ordered by Judge to Submit Customers Emails from Abroad
Microsoft Corp was ordered on Thursday by a U.S. government judge to turn over a customer’s email that is stored in a data center in Dublin, Ireland. The case has already drawn concern from privacy groups and major technology companies around the world. Microsoft and other U.S. companies had challenged the…
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