The Pentagon’s new Law of War Manual delineates the military’s power to censor journalists’ work and even deem them “unprivileged belligerents” should they be suspected of supporting the work of the enemy.
Inmates said prison staff interrogated them by beating them, placing them in solitary confinement, and in at least one inmate’s case, throwing a bag over his head and threatening to waterboard him.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and his counterparts in Paris, London and Madrid took to the New York Times op-ed page to pose a flawed argument against default encryption of mobile phones.
A divided appellate court panel in Richmond, Virginia, ruled on Wednesday that citizens do not give up their privacy rights just because their mobile-phone providers know where to reach them.
A hefty chunk of EPIC’s legal budget is taken from the pockets of the very agencies it sues, each time a federal judge agrees that the government was wrong to keep the information secret.
Snowden was responding to the suggestion that Apple might in certain cases be found legally liable for providing material aid to a terrorist organization because it provides encryption services to its users.
The Obama administration's intimidation campaign got a boost when a friendly blog raised the prospect of Apple being found liable for providing material support to a terrorist.
Kicking U.S.-based ISIS supporters off social media could provoke them to engage in lone-wolf attacks, according to an “analytic exercise” assessing “possible future developments" related to the group's messaging.
Wyden wants more debate on what tech companies call an impossible requirement that would lead to massive over-reporting of useless information.
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