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Radical Pirate Party Ahead in The Polls Days Before Icelandic Election
Nov 3, 2016As Iceland prepares to go to the polls for its Parliamentary elections on Saturday, a radical pirate party, made up of hackers and activists, is ahead in the polls. The country's once-fringe Pirate Party is led by a former WikiLeaks ...
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Apple Responds to FBI Case Withdrawal: It‘Should Never Have Been Brought’
Mar 30, 2016Apple has issued an official response to the FBI's recent dropping of its court case against the company. Over the weekend, it emerged that the FBI had managed to crack the iPhone 5C at the centre of its high profile court case against ...
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How Much of Walmart's Revenue Comes From Its Shoppers's Food Stamps
Apr 22, 2014How much of Walmart's revenue comes from its shoppers' food stamps? The store isn't required to say. But a January Court of Appeals ruling could change that. If the unanimous decision by the Eighth Circuit's panel of three judges holds, the ...
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PINs Compromised in Target Hack
Jan 6, 2014We were already aware of the existence of illicit marketplaces teeming with tools for cybercriminals looking to subvert the security of online networks. But one of the latest revelations from the cache of documents stolen by NSA ...
Tags: cybercriminals, security of online networks, Edward Snowden, NSA
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A Secretive U.S. Spy Court Has Ruled Again
Jan 6, 2014A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American's telephone records every day, in the midst of dueling decisions in two other federal courts about whether the surveillance ...
Tags: US spy court, National Security Agency, surveillance program
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The U.S. Government Announced Six States on Monday That Will Develop Test Sites for Drones
Jan 2, 2014The U.S. government announced six states on Monday that will develop test sites for drones, a critical next step for the march of the unmanned aircraft into American skies. Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia will ...
Tags: test sites for drones, unmanned aircraft, US
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NSA's Collection of U.S. Telephone Records Is The 'Least Intrusive' Way
Dec 13, 2013Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency's director said Wednesday. The NSA's ...
Tags: Metadata, NSA, data collection, surveillance programmes, surveillance
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Proposals in Congress Would Compromise The Agency's Ability to Find and Track Terrorists
Nov 6, 2013Proposals in Congress to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. telephone records would compromise the agency's ability to find and track terrorists, representatives of the intelligence community said Monday. The USA ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Surveillance Has Been at The Center of a Privacy Controversy After Its Former Contractor
Aug 16, 2013The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday launched a review of whether the country uses optimally advancements in technology to protect its national security while preventing unauthorized disclosure and maintaining public ...
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U. S. Appeals Give out an Appeals Court Ruled in an Order
Aug 5, 2013Warrants are not required by the U.S. government to access historical cell site information, an appeals court ruled in an order. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects only reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. ...
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Several U.S. Senators Will Push for Changes in The Way The National Security Agency
Aug 5, 2013Several U.S. senators will push for changes in the way the National Security Agency collects the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, with lawmakers saying they will focus on making the NSA program more transparent to the ...
Tags: NSA Data Collection
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Privacy and Digital Rights Groups Dug in for a Longer Fight Against Surveillance Programs
Aug 2, 2013Privacy and digital rights groups have dug in for a longer fight against massive surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency, even after the House of Representatives voted last week against an amendment to curtail the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Over Three Quarters of Consumers Globally Are Concerned About Their Privacy Online
Jun 27, 2013In spite of assertions by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and others that the age of privacy is over, new research commissioned by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has revealed that over three quarters of consumers globally ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Effectiveness of NSA Data Collection Is Questioned by Some Critics
Jun 27, 2013The recently revealed mass collection of phone records and other communications by the U.S.National Security Agency may not be effective in preventing terrorism,according to some critics. The data collection programs,as revealed by former ...
Tags: NSA, Data Collection, terrorism, phone records
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328 Website Domains Accused of Selling Counterfeit Goods Were Shut Down
Jun 27, 2013A total of 328 website domains accused of selling counterfeit goods were shut down by US and European authorities in the latest crackdown on online fraud. US authorities shut down 177 domain names for websites selling counterfeit ...
Tags: Online Fraud, Online Sale Websites