Daniel Balsam was working as a marketer when too many spam e-mails about breast enlargement drove him beyond the delete button and into what turned out to be a new…
Updated: By giving each iPhone and iPad a so-called Unique Device Identifier or UDID, Apple Inc. has made it possible for advertisers secretly to track which applications individuals download and…
Angry at a Minnesota attorney, a neighbor hacked his encrypted Wi-Fi account and e-mailed pornography labeled as family photos to his colleagues at a Minneapolis law firm, seeking to make…
A federal appeals court hearing next month is the latest saga in a long-running legal battle between Mark Zuckerberg and the twins who claimed the Facebook founder stole their ideas.
Defiant to the end, an Internet radio shock jock sought probation today for saying in a blog post that three federal appeals court judges in Chicago “deserved to be killed”…
The Colorado author of The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct has been arrested in a Florida obscenity case after allegedly selling a signed copy…
In less than three months, attorney Kenneth Ford has pursued some 22,000 copyright claims alleging peer-to-peer file-sharing violations, backing his Adult Copyright Company’s offer of “hardcore protection for hardcore content.”
In a report (PDF) released today, an Internet policy task force at the U.S. Department of Commerce calls for the creation of a “Privacy Bill of Rights” as…
A High Court judge in London has denied an appeal by prosecutors seeking to keep WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in jail pending extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges.
A federal appeals court has struck down part of a law that allows the government to obtain e-mails from Internet service providers without a probable cause warrant.
Filmmaker Michael Moore contributed $20,000 of his own money to help bail WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of a London jail where he is being held on Swedish sex crimes…
In a British court hearing that was live-tweeted, with the permission of the judge, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website was granted bail today.
Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denies, through his legal counsel, that he had anything to do with recent hack attacks on organizations perceived as hostile to his website. And he…
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