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Government intervenes in warrantless wiretapping lawsuit
"The Department of Justice made good its threat to file a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by EFF against AT&T over its collaboration with the NSA's massive program to wiretap and data-mine...
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Verizon sued over NSA surveillance
"Attorneys Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer claim the carrier violated privacy laws by turning over phone records to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for a secret government surveillance program."644 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
US spy agency building database of every call ever made
"After report says millions of Americans' phone records have been given to the National Security Agency (NSA), Bush says privacy is ''fiercely protected.''"868 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Zombie master sentenced to 5 years in prison
"Jeanson James Ancheta, 21, was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for using malicious software to seize control of 400,000 computers and then selling access to the zombie machines to spammers and hackers."831 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
US demand for college wiretaps questioned
''This is totally ridiculous. I can't believe you're making this argument,'' Judge Harry T. Edwards told Jacob Lewis, an associate general counsel with the Federal Communications Commission. The federal judge...486 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Bush administration to intervene in AT&T surveillance case
"The United States government filed a Statement of Interest Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against ATT, announcing that the government would assert the military and state...675 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Spam zombies from outer space
"Spammers could soon use zombie computers in a totally new way. Infected computers could run programs that spy into a person's email, mine it for information, and generate realistic-looking replies."516 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
RIAA, MPAA alert 40 university presidents in 25 states of LAN piracy
"While the majority of illegal copying and distribution of music and movies occurs over the public Internet on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems, students at colleges and universities have been increasingly using programs like Direct Connect (DC ), MyTunes and OurTunes...Microsoft to spend $4B in China
"Microsoft will provide $100 million to support domestic Chinese software enterprises; will purchase Chinese software products and tech support, software development, and testing services worth $100 million; and will make hardware purchases in excess of $700 million each year...AT&T forwards all Internet traffic into NSA, says EFF
EFF's evidence regarding AT&T's dragnet surveillance of its networks includes a declaration by Mark Klein, a retired AT&T telecommunications technician, and several internal AT&T documents. This evidence...1059 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
FTC levies fine against big-league spammers
The FTC said it has closed down a spam operation in California that sent millions of unwanted messages to online users across the country and fined the companies involved about $2.4 million. But based on the...537 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
NASA raided in child porn probe
"Federal investigators seized a laptop computer, a hard drive, CDs, and other material from the office of James R. Robinson, 42, a program executive with NASA's In-Space Propulsion, Mission and Systems Management...512 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Big Boss is watching you
"According to a recent study by the National Workrights Institute, 92% of employers conducted some form of workplace monitoring."896 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Jailed spam king caught conspiring to kill witness
Spam king and online drugstore operator Christopher William Smith, aka Rizler, 26, who is awaiting trial at the Sherburne County Jail, Elk River, Minn., used his phone privileges to arrange a hit on a witness and the...1046 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
Mainstream advertisers financing adware
"Large well-respected companies are helping to fund the virulent spread of unwanted and potentially harmful adware by paying for advertisements generated by those programs."792 views | 0 comments | 0 recommendations
