Wherever you take your phone, your wireless provider knows. And these days, you take your phone everywhere. So if they want to, law enforcement investigators can go back in time and trace your every movement by getting your location records from your wireless provider. But do they need a warrant to do that? That’s the …
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Accessing pirate sites on the internet just got that little bit harder in Australia. In two concurrent cases brought by Foxtel and Roadshow Films against Australia’s biggest internet service providers, the Federal Court of Australia has ordered ISPs to block access to more than 50 pirate sites within three weeks. The total block list from both rights holders includes 66 separately-listed websites, …
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Facebook is going up against the US over a gag order that it thinks impedes on freedom of speech. A court order prevents Facebook from telling three users that search warrants were issued for their account information, according to a report from BuzzFeed, which cited documents it obtained from the DC Appeals Court. The court has requested “all contents of …
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Google must remove some search results worldwide, Canada’s supreme court said Wednesday, in a ruling critics say could threaten free expression on the internet. The case involved a Canadian manufacturer of network gear that won an injunction against another company it said was illegally selling the gear online. The supreme court upheld a lower-court judge’s ruling that blocking search results …
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