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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 …
Five strategies for reclaiming our personal privacy online
When Tim Wu published his influential book Master Switch in 2010, he powerfully argued that all communications markets began with a period of creative …
Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords after customer list goes on sale
Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hash to a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not …
5 companies grab 70% of your online dollars
The Internet was supposed to democratize and open up information, commerce and communication. But so far, the spoils are going to a relative few. …
SEC charges 32 in press release hacking, stock trading scheme
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 32 defendants with fraud in an international scheme that used stolen, yet-to-be-published press releases from hacked …
Blocking Pirate Bay doesn’t increase legit sales, study finds
Carnegie Mellon researchers have authored a study on how website blocks impact consumer behavior, and whether such actions can be used to reduce content …
Recycling center ready to pay $100,000 to mysterious woman for rare Apple PC
A recycling center in Silicon Valley, US, is looking for an unknown woman who disposed of a unique specimen there: Of one of the …
Software detects fake mobile, Wi-Fi networks
An Israeli company has developed a product it says can detect if a mobile device connects to a fake cellular base station or Wi-Fi …
Google rejecting 59 percent of right-to-be-forgotten removal requests
It was a year ago Wednesday that the European Court of Justice ruled that search engines must remove links from their search results if …
EU to investigate transparency of Internet search results – document
Internet platforms such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! will be the subject of a widespread inquiry by European regulators to determine whether they are …
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