On August 29th, 2021 with 80 comments
Earlier this month Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin sued NASA over a moon lander contract awarded to SpaceX.
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On January 11th, 2020 with 70 comments
Insecure storage systems being used by hundreds of hospitals, medical offices and imaging centers are exposing over 1 billion medical images of patients across...
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On March 15th, 2019 with 67 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: First Look Media announced Wednesday that it was shutting down access to whistleblower Edward...
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On March 8th, 2019 with 74 comments
Researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang Univeristy in China have found that hard disk drives can be turned into listening devices, using...
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On January 13th, 2019 with 130 comments
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a Gizmodo report, written by national security reporter and transparency activist Emma Best: Late last year, the...
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On June 20th, 2018 with 153 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Tesla sued a former employee who worked in its Gigafactory in Nevada, accusing him of...
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On June 11th, 2018 with 164 comments
Rob Riggs writes: Jarek Duda, the inventor of a compression technique called asymmetric numeral systems (ANS), dedicated the invention to the public domain....
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On May 15th, 2018 with 106 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: In weekly online posts last year, WikiLeaks released a stolen archive of secret documents about...
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On May 8th, 2018 with 154 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report form Techdirt: Last month, [...] an unnamed 19-year-old was facing criminal charges for downloading publicly-available...
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On April 17th, 2018 with 422 comments
Ichijo writes: According to CBC News, a Canadian teen "has been charged with 'unauthorized use of a computer,' which carries a possible 10-year prison...
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On July 11th, 2017 with 12 comments
Western Digital won a temporary U.S. court order on Tuesday saying that Toshiba must allow Western Digital's employees to access databases and chip samples as...
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On January 26th, 2017 with 47 comments
Tesla has filed a lawsuit Thursday against its former director of Autopilot Programs, Sterling Anderson, for breach of contract. The company alleges Anderson...
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On December 1st, 2016 with 414 comments
According to French media, a court in the department of Ardeche on Tuesday sentenced a 32-year-old man in France to two years in prison for repeatedly visiting...
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On October 21st, 2016 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: The NSA contractor accused of stealing a gargantuan amount of sensitive and classified data from the U.S....
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On September 6th, 2016 with 299 comments
HughPickens.com writes: CNN reports that URL, the porn-sniffing dog, is the newest crime-fighting tool at the Weber County Sheriff's office with a nose that...
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On July 12th, 2016 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via The Verge: The Verge has obtained documents that reveal the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department has been...
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On January 16th, 2016 with 284 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The tech community has spoken: we don't want the NSA or any other government agency running bulk surveillance on us, and we don't...
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On December 30th, 2015 with 35 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In a new interview, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig shared his view of the future of privacy in this age of data breaches....
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On October 4th, 2015 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader writes: I've recently discovered that my hosting company is sending all login credentials unencrypted, prompting me to change providers. ...
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On May 8th, 2015 with 135 comments
monkeyzoo writes: Similar to a previous announcement by Twitter, Dropbox has changed its Terms of Service for users outside of North America...
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On March 2nd, 2015 with 199 comments
sarahnaomi sends this report from Motherboard:
Canadian police say they've uncovered a massive online file sharing network for exploitative material that could...
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On January 4th, 2015 with 181 comments
An anonymous reader writes An Indiana court has ruled that a hard drive that was sent to recycling was not destruction of evidence. The ruling stems from a...
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On May 9th, 2014 with 85 comments
Lucas123 writes "A U.S. District Court has ruled that Marvell Technology must pay Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) $1.54B for infringing on two hard drive chip...
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On April 26th, 2014 with 226 comments
New submitter sim2com writes: "An American judge has just added another reason why foreign (non-American) companies should avoid using American Internet...
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On November 7th, 2013 with 104 comments
An anonymous reader writes "After all the revelations about NSA's spying efforts, and especially after the disclosure of details about its Bullrun program...
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On October 12th, 2012 with 112 comments
New submitter Ibhuk writes "I leave my email stored online, as do many modern email users, particularly for services like Gmail with its ever-expanding storage...
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On August 20th, 2012 with 242 comments
Nerval's Lobster writes "Dr. Armando Angulo was indicted in 2007 on charges of illegally selling prescription drugs. He fled the country in 2004, with the Drug...
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On January 23rd, 2012 with 21 comments
You asked Carl Malamud about his experiences and hopes in the gargantuan project he's undertaken to prod the U.S. government into scanning archived documents,...
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On January 4th, 2012 with 148 comments
1sockchuck writes "The U.S. government now expects to shutter at least 1,200 data centers by the end of 2015 in its data center consolidation project. That's...
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On July 7th, 2011 with 90 comments
vanstinator writes "Today Dropbox has released a revised Terms of Service agreement due to the controversy caused by their recent update. This new version...
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