Google will pay US$7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorised collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks. The money will be paid to 37 states and the District of Columbia, which had ...
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In light of data privacy day, the search giant promises to increase its efforts in protecting user online information. The new initiatives aim to create a stricter process for handling data request from government agencies. "If it's ...
Three men have been jailed for manufacturing illegal and potentially fatal vodka using industrial alcohol that is normally used in antifreeze and cleaning fluids. This equipment was used to make the potentially fatal alcohol During ...
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Hacker group Anonymous said it had disabled the US Sentencing Commission's website in revenge for the death of internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz, and vowed to release government data. The website of the commission, an independent ...
Governments continue to ask Google for more data about its users, with more than two-thirds of requests in the U.S. made through a subpoena, which usually doesn't require asking a judge for a search warrant. User data requests of all ...
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A former co-owner of a U.S. civilian contractor company was sentenced on Thursday in San Antonio to serve 30 months in prison for falsifying official documents in connection with Iraq reconstruction government contracts, announced Assistant ...
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The public prosecutor in Hamburg has decided not to start a criminal investigation into the way Googles' Street View cars gathered data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in Germany, the lawyer who requested the inquiry said Thursday. In ...
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Businesses are adopting cloud-based services mainly to speed up innovation and cut costs,often overlooking the security risks of this new delivery model. But security is not the only thing that is being overlooked by eager adopters of ...
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U.S. law enforcement surveillance of email and other Internet communication has skyrocketed in the last two years, according to data obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The number of so-called pen register and trap-and-trace ...
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Gary McKinnon will not face prosecution in the UK for his alleged hacking of US government computer systems. The hacker, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, was accused of hacking into military and Nasa computers in 2002, leading to the ...
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British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not face charges here in the UK, the director of public prosecutions has confirmed. McKinnon, who is still wanted for trial in the US, had his extradition halted by home secretary Theresa May ...
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Recently, AVM Technology hosted officers from the Information and Communication Security Division and the Cyber Forensics Laboratory of the Taiwan Investigation Bureau to discuss best computer forensics procedures and practices. RICHMOND, ...
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Privacy advocates this week said they are dismayed, but not surprised about a New York Criminal Court judge's decision ordering Twitter to hand over all the data it has on an Occupy Wall Street protester being investigated for disorderly ...
ANSA reported that prosecutors in the city of Taranto on Monday issued a European arrest warrant for Mr Fabio Riva, an executive of the ILVA steel plant at the center of an environmental dispute between local prosecutors and the national ...
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A garlic smuggler who resided in the UK and was sentenced to six years in prison for evading tax has gone on the run. Murugasan Natarajan, 57, who owned the London-based Perfect Imports & Exports company, was found with around 7,000kg ...
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