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Jess Bravin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 23 at 9:43 am PT
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s vehicle, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in the digital age.
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Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on September 3, 2011 at 8:01 am PT
Police officers and Apple Inc. employees recently visited a San Francisco residence in a search for a prototype of one of the tech giant’s devices that had been traced to a local home, but left empty handed.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 2, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
Police in the U.K. make the second pair of arrests in as many days in their ongoing investigation into the activities of the LulzSec and Anonymous hacker gangs.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 15, 2011 at 3:48 pm PT
The Federal Communications Commission is looking into the circumstances of a shutdown of wireless phone service at four San Francisco train stations during a protest.
Peter Kafka in News on August 11, 2011 at 6:35 am PT
“When people are using social media for violence we need to stop them.”
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 1, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT
Airbnb sent a letter to its users today in an effort to allay concerns about security about its service, which helps connect people willing to rent out their homes to complete strangers.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 19, 2011 at 6:36 am PT
News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch tells British lawmakers he is sorry on the “most humble day of my life”, survives a surprise attack and loses his jacket.
Other than that, the hearing turned into a what
didn’t the Murdochs know and when
didn’t they know it Q&A session.
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Emily Steel and Julia Angwin, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 13, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Dozens of law-enforcement agencies from Massachusetts to Arizona are preparing to outfit their forces with controversial hand-held facial-recognition devices as soon as September, raising significant questions about privacy and civil liberties.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 13, 2011 at 11:52 am PT
Turkey becomes the latest country to arrest a batch of alleged members of the amorphous Wikileaks-supporting hacker group know for its denial-of-service attacks on the Web sites of organizations it doesn’t like. Meanwhile, LulzSec warned a game publisher that it’s next in its sights.
Kara Swisher in News on December 21, 2010 at 12:15 am PT
How much are we loving these Julian Assange spoofs on “Saturday Night Live”?
Here–a day late–is the WikiLeaks leader commenting on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg recently beating him out for Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
