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Blackberry to ‘exit’ Pakistan over data-retention row
Phone-maker Blackberry is to stop operating in Pakistan at the end of 2015 because of government requests to monitor customer data. The Pakistani government …
Tech industry defends encryption amid new questions following Paris attacks
Technology industry groups are pushing back against calls from law enforcement and intelligence officials to give the government more access to encrypted networks following …
Saudis to sue Twitter user who called poet’s death sentence ‘ISIS-like’
Saudi Arabia’s justice ministry plans to sue a Twitter user who compared the death sentence handed down on Friday to a Palestinian poet to …
NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws
The U.S. National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about vulnerabilities in computer software, thereby leaving U.S. companies open to …
Snapchat clarifies privacy policies after terms of service change freaks out users
Snapchat recently tweaked its terms of service and privacy policy, and the Internet didn’t like the alterations one bit. The new policies are drastic …
Open Source: Britain’s MI5 to Be Given Major New Powers to Spy Online
The UK government has proposed a new bill which gives the police and intelligence agencies special powers to get access to individuals’ communications data. …
U.S. will not seek legislation against encryption
The U.S. administration will not seek legislation at this point to counter the encryption of communications by many technology services and product vendors, but …
Australia to allow Facebook photos to be used in national surveillance database
Photos from social media websites like Facebook could be used in an Australian counter-terrorism database. Critics are concerned about the system’s lack of “transparency,” …
In a first, Chinese hackers are arrested at the behest of the U.S. government
The Chinese government has quietly arrested a handful of hackers at the urging of the U.S. government — an unprecedented step to defuse tensions …
Junta mulls ‘Great Firewall’ for Thailand
Thailand’s junta is facing growing opposition over plans to introduce a single Internet gateway for the country to make it easier to monitor the …
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