Two U.S. agencies have seized 686 websites accused of selling counterfeit and illegal medicines as part of an international crackdown on online sales of fake drugs. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security ...
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New York civil rights violation lawyers at The Perecman Firm welcome a new smart phone application called The Stop and Frisk Watch. This new app from the New York Civil Liberties Union allows people to report violations of the New York ...
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Kaspersky Lab has outlined key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013. The most notable predictions for the next year include the continued rise of targeted attacks, cyber-espionage and nation-state ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve the extension by five years of a controversial law, that its critics claim allows for the warrantless surveillance of electronic communications like email and phone calls of not only ...
Computerworld - The specter that Congress will reauthorize the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 without any changes to its sweeping spying provisions is evoking cries of alarm from advocacy and privacy groups. Many say the law, ...
The Republican and Democratic parties should take a stand for Internet "freedom" during their upcoming national conventions, a group of Internet activists urged Monday. More than 36,000 people have signed a petition, started by 'Net ...
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The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticised new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. Of most concern ...
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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 ...
Campaigners have slammed the government’s draft proposals to for its Communications Data Bill, which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet activity. The bill will now be ...
The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else. Security guru Bruce Schneier noted in a recent blog post, citing Evgeny ...
Tags: Cyber spying, Middle East, Skype, Spying, Syria, video
Twitter released a report on Monday about the user information requests it has received from governments this year and how it responded to them. The data shows that the U.S.government asked for information on far more users than any other ...
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MPs have slammed plans to give the Home Secretary carte blanche to retain any type of data in the draft Communications Data Bill dubbed ‘the Snoopers’ Charter’. In a Joint Committee the MPs and Lords concluded that the ...
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Three key European parliamentary committees have voted against adopting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta). The agreement is aimed at setting an international standard for tackling large-scale infringements of intellectual ...
As the government pushes private companies to release customer data under its Midata initiative,Computer Weekly looks at what this means for the digital economy and who stands to benefit most from this new form of"consumer empowerment". ...
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The chairman of the U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S.agencies access to email and other electronic communications without search warrants,despite a news report to the ...
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