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Appealing amendments: NSA lawsuit gets another chance
Many citizens see Edward Snowden as the linchpin that finally led to a flood of challenges and lawsuits against the National Security Agency (NSA) for its indiscriminate search and seizure of Internet...
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New strain of malware steals credit card info from local businesses
The latest strain of malicious software targets everything from pet stores and movie theaters to restaurants and credit unions. Called GamaPOS, the malware already affects 13 US states and Vancouver, ...
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Is your Samsung Smart TV spying on you? - #WTFWednesday
Samsung Smart TVs are amazing huh? With voice commands and video calling built in, it’s like we’re in the 2015 predicted by Back to the Future II. No wonder families are buying them in the tens of...
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Viral outbreak inspires MERS-themed malware
A human virus is a lot like a piece of malware, “downloading” itself into your system and draining your vital resources for its own ends. So it’s ironic that Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (ME...
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Australia's new anti-piracy law: Sink or swim?
This article was originally published on June 29, 2015. What happens when the government decides to crack down on Internet piracy? In Australia, the result is The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringem...
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Google in talks with privacy regulators over ‘right to be forgotten’
One year after the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled that individuals have the right to ask search engines to remove certain search results about them, Google has published some stati...
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Renew or repeal? Spy law battle heats up on Capitol Hill
On June 1st, one controversial section of the Patriot Act — Section 215 — expires. Both the NSA and the FBI are fighting hard to have this legislation and its accompanying powers extended, while p...
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Going dark: New Australian law spurs VPN interest
It’s official: Yesterday we wrote about a new data retention law in Australia that compels ISPs to save user “metadata” for two years and supply it without a warrant on demand from federal agen...
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Why we think the Australian Data Retention Law is a terrible idea
This article was originally published on April 13, 2015. Over the past few weeks, Australian Internet users have been troubled by the implications of Parliament passing the mandatory metadata retentio...
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FBI’s plan to expand hacking power advances despite privacy fears
This post was originally published on March 30, 2015. Last Monday the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules sanctioned a rule change that will expand the FBI’s authority to use ha...
