Wiretapping

Three brothers from Seaford were arrested today as part of a seven-member identity theft ring that stole more than 180 people's store credit accounts to obtain more than $1 million in merchandise, gift...

CLEVELAND -- In the first defeat for federal prosecutors who have secured convictions or guilty pleas for more than 50 elected officials, government workers and contractors in Cuyahoga county over the past three...

WASHINGTON -- The law firm of Finkelstein Thompson LLP is investigating claims on behalf of consumers regarding Carrier IQ, a software application installed on millions of HTC and Samsung Android phones on the...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- To clarify misinformation on the functionality of Carrier IQ software, the company is updating its statement from November 23rd 2011 as follows: We measure and summarize performance of the...

As with many legal, political, and social issues of our time, questions concerning consumers' rights to online privacy evade clear-cut resolution. Within Congress, within the administrative agencies that oversee privacy laws, within the...

Clean up your mess, Mr. Liu City Comptroller John Liu has a royal mess on his hands. Federal prosecutors charged last week that in August an undercover agent asked businessman Xing Wu Pan...

In a case that had the justices questioning just how far the expectation of privacy extends in a world of ever-evolving technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the police's use of...

HEADNOTE Die Hard's director. Lethal Weapon's writer. And The Terminator himself. Last Action Hero should have been bulletproof. Instead, it brought a studio to its knees, sent its cast and crew insane and...

The bodies of two men, victims of apparent strangulation, lay along a road in El Ceibillo. Passersby discovered the bullet-riddled corpse of a 21-year-old man near the corner of Avenida 6 and Bulevar...

*Dallas denies ending print comment: A comment attributed to a Dallas Morning News executive that the paper wouldn't be printed seven days a week within three years was denied by the paper's publisher...

NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES -- The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) has sold its Baseline unit to Project Hollywood LLC, a privately held company which is majority owned by media and...

We've heard enough of the slogan "Too Big To Fail." For some it was an excuse for government handouts; for others, it was a symbol of the corrupt relationship between regulators and those...

By YnetNews.com & The Atlantic Wire The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the espionage conviction of Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, an Israeli-American who was sentenced to 20 months in jail for intelligence...

Rioters used BlackBerrys against the police; can police use them against rioters? AS BRITONS ask themselves what has changed in their country that might have caused these riots, one obvious answer stands out:...

LONGWOOD, Fla. -- Kryptos Communications, Inc. announced less than a year ago the launch of Kryptos, a secure voice communications encryption application for the iPhone, shortly thereafter releasing versions for both the Android...

SAN FRANCISCO -- AlterNet and RawStory, two pioneers in online independent news, have joined forces with UberMedia, developers of the world's most popular Twitter app, to produce NewsForward -- a mashup of the...

As the fallout from the voicemail-tapping and police collusion allegations against Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. grows, legal experts say the case could land before the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue: the breadth of...

With demands for his resignation rising both from Opposition parties and within the BJP, Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Monday stuck to his guns and sought to clear his name by asking...

I. Introduction ................................................................................................... 291 II. The Multidisciplinary Foundations Of Privacy .............................................. 294 A. Early Conceptualizations of Privacy .................................................. 294 1 . The Roots of Privacy in Select Ancient Civilizations .................. 294 a. Code...