Facebook Under Fire Again For Failure To Protect Children From Sexual Predators
Mar 08, 2017 05:38 am UTC| Technology Law
Allowing the spread of Fake News, reported abuses of power, and now, failing to protect the rights of children from sexual exploitation. It seems Facebooks troubles are stacking up. In a recent report, it was found that...
Amazon Hands Over Alexa Data That Could Be Essential To Murder Case
Mar 08, 2017 04:45 am UTC| Technology Law
Police previously asked Amazon to release certain data that was potentially collected by its smart assistant Alexa, which could prove helpful in a murder case. The retail giant refused to do so at the time, citing First...
WikiLeaks Release Incriminating Documents, CIA Spying On Americans Via Smart TVs
Mar 08, 2017 02:46 am UTC| Technology Law
Just when the American political sphere was getting more complicated than most voters were used to, here comes WikiLeaks to drop a huge rock in the pond. By releasing documents pertaining to CIA spying activities that...
WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of 'CIA hacking'
Mar 08, 2017 02:45 am UTC| Technology Law
WikiLeaks today released what it claims is the largest leak of intelligence documents in history. It contains 8,761 documents from the CIA detailing some of its hacking arsenal. The release, code-named Vault 7 by...
Department of Justice Sacrifices Child Porn Case In Favor Of Protecting Tor Exploit
Mar 07, 2017 23:49 pm UTC| Technology Law
Even though it had a suspect for violating anti-child pornography laws on the ropes, the US Department of Justice decided to drop the case it had because of its unwillingness to release details about an exploit that could...
In places where it's legal, how many people are ending their lives using euthanasia?
Mar 03, 2017 05:58 am UTC| Life Law
The Victorian Parliament will consider a bill to legalise euthanasia in the second half of 2017. That follows the South Australian Parliaments decision to knock back a voluntary euthanasia bill late last year, and the...
Uber's dismissive treatment of employee's sexism claims is all too typical
Mar 01, 2017 07:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Uber has suffered a spate of bad publicity in recent days after allegations of harassment and discrimination from a former software engineer. In a blog post, Susan Fowler described being propositioned by her supervisor...
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