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Is the practice of tumbling or mixing bitcoin actually illegal? That’s a tricky question Larry Dean Harmon of Akron, Ohio, operated a company called Helix which, together with the DDW marketplace AlphaBay, operated as a market to permit people t… Continue reading Bitcoin Tumbling Leads to Multicount Indictment
A new Data Protection Agency would overhaul federal regulation efforts around data privacy – but experts are skeptical that the U.S. government can get it right. Continue reading Privacy Experts Skeptical of Proposed Data Protection Agency
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they have seized the domain name for weleakinfo.com. On January 16, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced that the FBI and D… Continue reading Domain Name of WeLeakInfo.com Seized by FBI and DOJ
When it comes to encryption, we are having another Groundhog Day. The U.S., UK and Australian governments are pressuring Facebook to stop its plans to include “end to end” encryption, which would enhance the privacy and security of the social media pl… Continue reading U.S. AG Wants Legal Back Door to All Facebook Postings (and Everything Else)
It’s a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app’s users from Apple & Google. Continue reading Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds
The FTC initially wanted a fine worth tens of billions, plus potential jail time for execs. Continue reading Facebook gets its wrist slapped $5b for fumbling our data, confirms FTC
The Department of Justice is reportedly preparing a new antitrust investigation against Google over its advertising and search businesses.
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WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has been charged with 17 new criminal counts under the Espionage Act for “unlawfully obtaining” and disclosing national defense information. The indictment, which was issued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, concerns documents that he and Wikileaks helped to disclose that former Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning stole from the Department of Defense. Assange was “complicit” and “conspired with” Manning, according a Department of Justice Official, CNBC reports. Some of what WikiLeaks published included names of foreigners, including sources in the Middle East, who were helping U.S. military overseas, which “is alleged to have created imminent risks to the life and liberty,” per the DOJ. The U.S. government unsealed an indictment in April revealing that Assange had been charged for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in his alleged efforts to help Manning crack a password on a U.S. government computer. Assange, […]
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Aluminum supplier Sapa Profiles, Inc. will pay $46 million to NASA, the Department of Defense, and other victims of its fraud scheme. Continue reading NASA Says $700 Million in Rocket Failures Caused by Fraudster Company
President Donald Trump pushed top intelligence officials to refute information tied to the investigations into links between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, according to information publicly released Thursday in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. According to the report, Trump phoned then-NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers on March 26, 2017 to complain the investigation was “messing up” his ability to get things done with Russia, as far as Rogers recalls. The president also asked Rogers if there was anything he could do to refute news stories linking him to Russia. Richard Ledgett, former NSA deputy director who was reportedly present for the exchange, drafted a memo about the substance of the call. He and Rogers both signed it and locked it in a safe. Ledgett “said it was the most unusual thing he had experienced in 40 years of government service,” the report states. By the time the phone call […]
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