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Appeals Court Curbs Border Agents’ Carte Blanche Power to Search Your Gadgets
A federal appeals court for the first time ruled Friday that U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche authority to search the cellphones, tablets and laptops of travelers entering the country -- a...Tax man trying to figure out a way to outsmart Google
If a new French government proposal (Google Translate) is implemented, tech companies earning money in France would pay new taxes based on how much personal data is collected from their users. For months now,...How Georgia doxed a Russian hacker (and why it matters)
Aurich Lawson On October 24, the country of Georgia took an unusual step: it posted to the Web a 27-page writeup (PDF), in English, on how it has been under assault from a hacker...US leads world in government removal requests to Google
The new government removal request data, released Monday, is the fifth such dataset the company has published. Robert Scoble The United States government leads the world in content removal requests to Google, as...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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