March 13, 2017

News in brief: Africa gets its own TLD; smart jacket launch pushed back; humans not required

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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October 18, 2016

Feds got search warrant demanding anyone’s fingerprints to open phones

Legal experts call it an unprecedented demand.

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August 01, 2016

Facebook ordered to refund parents for accidental in-app purchases

Ninja Sega purchases? Gunslinging FarmVille chickens??! If you didn't say it's OK, it wasn't.

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July 21, 2016

Drone operator arrested for flying over wildfire

The arrest is the first of its kind in California, where battling wildfires has been repeatedly hampered by drones.

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July 13, 2016

California lawmakers want to bring down the hammer on ransomware

The proposed bill would make ransomware punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for 2-4 years and a fine not exceeding $10,000.

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January 25, 2016

Fighting human trafficking is the new justification for encryption backdoors (so says California)

A lawmaker has put a call to outlaw encryption by default on mobile phones into a human trafficking bill.

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November 12, 2015

California collects, owns and sells infants’ DNA samples

The DNA data is supposedly anonymized, but one expert says the de-identification is easy to see through.

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October 15, 2015

‘Fixed’ app that fights parking tickets ‘blocked’ in 3 cities

"Xerox did it, not us!" says San Francisco, whose parking revenues are threatened by the citation-protest streamlining app.

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October 13, 2015

California nixes warrantless search of digital data

California police will no longer be able to get their hands on phone or other digital data about users without a warrant.

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