Officers from the Australian Federal Police allegedly stole and concealed documents that could have helped a former pilot and businessman fight allegations he had raped a 14-year-old girl in PNG — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More and more European Union member states are delegating online policing to private companies and Internet service providers, according to a report released Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US investigators have been unable to find evidence directly linking WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the army private suspected of passing on confidential documents to the whistleblowing website, according to a report last night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US states are facing a new obstacle to enforcing the death penalty after the sole American manufacturer of a drug used in lethal injections announced it was ending production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Silicon Valley companies that store our personal data have a growing responsibility to protect it from government snooping, according to Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A gay couple has been granted full parenting rights to their daughters who were conceived using an overseas surrogate mother — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julia Gillard’s bid to censor the internet is not an effective move
, says Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet and Google’s chief web evangelist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Vatican department advised Ireland’s Catholic bishops in 1997 not to report priests suspected of child abuse to the police, a newly revealed letter shows — via redwolf.newsvine.com
E-mails between a client and attorney are no longer considered privileged and confidential if the client writes the messages from a work e-mail account, a California court of appeals has ruled — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internal US government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to US interests abroad, despite the Obama administration’s public statements to the contrary — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US woman billed $US5800 ($5860) after missing the final payment on her 30-year mortgage can pursue a lawsuit against the debt collectors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An officer from Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command has contacted universities in London with a request to pass on intelligence as students prepare to step up their campaign against increases in tuition fees and education cuts in the coming weeks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The trafficking of British children around UK cities for sexual exploitation is on the increase with some as young as 10 being groomed by predatory abusers, a report reveals today.
The average age of victims of such abuse has fallen from 15 to about 13 in five years, according to the report by Barnardo’s, the UK’s biggest children’s charity.
But victims continue to be missed as telltale signs are overlooked from the frontline of children’s services to the corridors of Whitehall
, said Anne Marie Carrie, the charity’s new chief executive — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Renters left homeless during the Queensland floods are legally obliged to keep paying rent on their flooded home until they officially
end their agreement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman in Mauritania has been convicted of keeping two girls in slave-like conditions in a rare prosecution against the practice — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a move that could herald a new level of danger for Facebook users, third party application developers are now able to access your home address and mobile phone number — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police have warned of an increasing number of scams to rob Queensland’s flood victims as the federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said the economic cost of the disaster will be the highest in Australia’s history.
The scams include tricking victims into giving their bank details to people claiming they will help them obtain emergency funds.
Scammers claiming to be tradesmen are also going into affected areas offering to repair the damage and demanding payment in advance before disappearing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A charity that recruits volunteers to run recreational activities at detention centres is on the brink of deregistration for failing to provide a single financial statement to Fair Trading NSW since it was formally created in 2003 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, its shell-shocked staff presiding over an expanse of emptied shelves. Only a few days ago they held 16,000 volumes.
Now, after a campaign on Facebook, there are none. Every library user was urged to pick their full entitlement of 15 books, take them away and keep them for a week. The idea was to empty the shelves by closing time on Saturday: in fact with 24 hours to go, the last sad bundle of self-help and practical mechanics books was stamped out. Robert Gifford, chair of Stony Stratford town council, planned to collect his books when he got home from work in London, but left it too late — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man who broke into Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been imprisoned – despite being told he might be spared jail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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