News tagged with criminal case

Iceland summons US envoy over WikiLeaks probe

(AP) -- The American ambassador to Reykjavik has been summoned to explain why U.S. investigators are trying to access the private details of an Icelandic lawmaker's online activity as they try to build a ...

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created Jan 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

WikiLeaks' Assange faces extradition hearing

(AP) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his entourage of lawyers, supporters, protesters and journalists are headed back to a London court for a showdown between the secret-spilling computer hacker and ...

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created Feb 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 16

India gov't agrees to prosecute Google, Facebook

India's government authorised on Friday the prosecution of 21 Internet firms including Facebook and Google in a case over obscene content posted online, two sources told AFP.

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created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 11

Suit returns Pa. 'sexting' district to spotlight

(AP) -- A Pennsylvania school district that was at the center of a highly publicized "sexting" case was sued Thursday by a teenager who claims her principal confiscated her cell phone, found nude images she had taken of ...

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created May 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Twitter subpoenas a challenge to intellectual privacy

The City of New York recently subpoenaed a Twitter account as part of an ongoing Occupy Wall Street criminal case. The Occupy protester named in the case is challenging the subpoena.

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created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mahalo vouches for criminal hacker in its midst

The founder of young Internet search engine Mahalo explained on Thursday how a convicted hacker wound up a cherished member of their team.

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created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0