Policy & Law Archive

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  New York requests help from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung to stop smartphone thefts

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on May 13, 2013 02:14 pm + 52 comments

  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has called on Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and Continue reading…

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  Ill-gotten gains: how many museums have stolen objects in their collections?

  By Carl Franzen on May 13, 2013 01:30 pm + 71 comments

  The prestigious New York Museum of Metropolitan of Art made headlines earlier this month when museum Continue reading…

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  Cyber caper: behind the scenes of the $45 million global ATM heist

  By Adrianne Jeffries on May 13, 2013 01:00 pm + 136 comments

  Defendants Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje posing with approximately $40,000 with cash. Continue reading…

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  Supreme Court rules in favor of Monsanto, says farmer violated seed patents

  By Carl Franzen on May 13, 2013 11:51 am + 134 comments

  The US Supreme Court just ruled today that it is infringement for a farmer to make new copies of Continue reading…

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  Singapore police present evidence of suicide in controversial death of American engineer

  By Adrianne Jeffries on May 13, 2013 09:38 am + 82 comments

  Shane Todd's parents, Rick and Mary Todd, arriving at the coroner's public inquest. Photo: Belmont Continue reading…

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  US drone strikes condemned as illegal by Pakistan's highest court

  By Joshua Kopstein on May 13, 2013 12:58 am + 134 comments

  A decision from Pakistan's highest court in Peshawar has ruled that US drone strikes on tribal lands Continue reading…

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  Apple reportedly inundated with police requests to decrypt iPhones

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on May 12, 2013 01:27 pm + 64 comments

  Examining encrypted iPhones and iPads as evidence in police investigations has become so common that Continue reading…

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  Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk leaves Mark Zuckerberg's immigration reform group

  By Nathan Ingraham on May 11, 2013 02:34 pm + 77 comments

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially launched FWD.us, his immigration reform group made up of Continue reading…

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  Buried in immigration reform bill, a plan to create a national photo database

  By Nathan Olivarez-Giles on May 10, 2013 04:07 pm + 44 comments

  The immigration reform bill currently sitting in the Senate is huge: it's more than 800 pages long, Continue reading…

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  US government is now the biggest buyer of malware, Reuters reports

  By Joshua Kopstein on May 10, 2013 03:15 pm + 23 comments

  The US government is waging electronic warfare on a vast scale — so large that it's causing a Continue reading…