The Police wants the cooperation of a robotic witness to a murder case, requesting Amazon's help in recalling what the domestic robot "Echo" heard in the room. Robotic witnesses have…
It begins: Amazon's constantly-listening robotic home assistant was near a domestic murder case, and now the Police wants access to anything it might have heard. There have been similar cases…
Encrypted messaging just took a blow in Egypt. Since this past weekend, many internet users with an Egyptian IP address are no longer able to send or receive messages or…
Australian Federal Court has ordered that 61 websites associated with The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, TorrentHound, SolarMovie, and Torrentz, be blocked by Australia’s internet service providers (ISPs). Australian internet users have…
There is a "war on cash" going on from the central banks, trying to reduce the usage (and personal storage) of cash. This is something that makes sense as a…
Tensions between the industrial-age establishment and the networked people-at-large have been rising for years, if not for two decades. Politicians and elites striving to paint themselves on moral high horses…
The United Kingdom has passed a draconian mass surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act (IP Act), which will force the collection of UK internet connection records for a whole year.…
The contents of your internet history are more than enough to send you to jail in France. A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail for visiting…
The recent change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for electronic media if the…
Today December 1, the United States FBI is granted new powers to intrude into any computer anywhere on the globe, instantly changing the FBI from a random law enforcement agency…