IDG News Service - Speaking from a balcony at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has sought asylum, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Sunday called on governments including the U.S. to stop persecution of political whistle blowers and ...
Tags: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, Vienna convention, Bradley Manning
IDG News Service - The U.S. government lost a bid on Thursday to withhold some evidence in advance of the extradition hearing for four Megaupload defendants charged with criminal copyright infringement. The U.S. had asked for a judicial ...
Tags: Megaupload, Evidence, U.S.government
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has offered to do a deal with U.S. prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. "Hey DOJ, we will go to the US. No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & ...
Tags: USA, Dotcom, business case, Megaupload
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
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The High Court has intervened to end a stand-off between the home secretary and Gary McKinnon over the order to have him extradited to face hacking charges in the US. McKinnon's extradition has been stalled since the May 2010 election ...
Tags: The High Court, Gary McKinnon, extradition
Two UK teenage members of hacktivist group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to charges linked with attacks on several high-profile websites. Ryan Cleary, 19, and Jake Davis, 18, admitted being part of LulzSec, an offshoot of the Anonymous ...
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has launched a campaign with the Guardian on Change.org to stop the extradition to the US of Richard O'Dwyer, a 24-year-old UK student. Change.org is described as a platform for social change, enabling ...
Tags: Wikipedia, website, web servers, internet