Collaborate Disseminate
The EU’s top court ruled that platforms like Facebook can be ordered to proactively seek out and delete all copies of illegal content. Continue reading Social media platforms can be forced to delete illegal content worldwide
As Game of Thrones’ eighth season gets ready to kick off, a new report says the popular TV show accounted for 17 percent of all infected pirated content in the last year. Continue reading ThreatList: Game of Thrones, a Top Malware Conduit for Cybercriminals
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice Wednesday after a months-long quest to obtain records regarding the FBI’s alleged use of Best Buy Geek Squad employees to search customer computers without warrants. The lawsuit comes after a February FOIA request by EFF was denied by the FBI under grounds that the FBI will neither confirm nor deny the existence of records pertaining to an ongoing investigations. EFF also received no comment on a following administrative appeal. EFF Civil Liberties Director David Greene told Cyberscoop that the FBI had not yet commented on the lawsuit, which seeks to examine whether Geek Squad employees have acted on behalf of federal agents when searching customer computers, in which case a warrant is necessary, according to constitutional law. “The public has a right to know how the FBI uses computer repair technicians to carry out […]
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