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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 …
Facebook says EU’s privacy investigations hurt innovation, economy
The world’s largest social network has a message for the European Union: stay the course or risk hurting our users. In a lengthy editorial …
France makes glorifying anorexia online punishable by prison
Glorifying anorexia or excessive “skinniness” on the internet will be a criminal offence in France under a new law passed on Thursday. A host …
France Seeks to Sanction Web Companies for Posts Pushing Terror
The French government is stepping up the pressure on Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. to help in the struggle against terrorist groups. President Francois …
Charlie Hebdo: ‘Islamist cyber attacks’ hit France
Numerous French media websites have gone down a day after warnings of a wave of Islamist cyber attacks. The sites of Le Parisien, Marianne …
‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous says it will avenge Charlie Hebdo attacks by shutting down jihadist websites
Hacker group Anonymous have released a video and a statement via Twitter condemning the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people, including eight …
French municipal-websites hacked, replaced with ISIS flag
So-called Islamic State flags have appeared on the websites of several municipalities near Paris whose homepages were hacked. The hacks come amidst an intense …
French websites targeted by Islamic State hackers
The websites of two French towns have been hacked to display messages supporting Islamic extremism. Official sites for Ézanville and Goussainville, both communes in …
France bans file-sharing site The Pirate Bay
France has become the latest country to block world’s number one file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay, in an effort to defend copyright-protected content. The …
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