February 21, 2019

Hacker Lauri Love denied bid to get computers back

Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after UK’s National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation.

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February 19, 2019

Facebook acts like a law-breaking ‘digital gangster’, says official report

Facebook considers itself to be “ahead of and beyond the law,” UK lawmakers said in a report about "disinformation and 'fake news.'"

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January 15, 2019

Facebook to start fact-checking fake news in the UK

Facebook's relying on demotion instead of removal, so users will still be able to share content, even if Full Fact rates it inaccurate.

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December 11, 2018

Teen SWATter who had 400 schools evacuated lands 3 years in jail

George Duke-Cohan is the British teen who posed as a worried father whose daughter had called him mid-flight during a hijacking.

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November 21, 2018

Drone owner fined for putting police helicopter crew ‘in danger’

It's the first ever prosecution under UK drone laws for a flight that could have turned deadly, as did a recent helicopter disaster in Leicester.

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September 05, 2018

Can ‘sonar’ sniff out your Android’s lock code?

Researchers have demonstrated a novel, if slightly James Bond technique, for clandestinely discovering the unlock pattern used to secure an Android smartphone.

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September 04, 2018

How refusing to give police your Facebook password can lead to prison

A suspect will be jailed for 14 months for refusing to hand over his Facebook password to detectives investigating a 13-year-old's murder.

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September 04, 2018

Governments demand companies allow access to data, or else

A decades-old alliance of national intelligence partners promised to get at encrypted data last week, whether tech companies helped them or not.

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August 30, 2018

Football team drops the privacy ball with email Cc blunder

But at least now you know how to get in touch with people who might have an extra ticket...

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