A furious family is suing property developers after they demolished every staircase in a seven-storey apartment block to make them quit their top floor flat — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with WikiLeaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
He experienced a similar incident last year at Newark airport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A strange bit of JavaScript has found its way onto Tunisian Internet users’ internet login screens. Some are now in jail in a country known for torture. But they’ve been adopted by an unlikely ally: Anonymous — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA) has spoken out against ISP internet filtering, saying that it is an ineffective band-aid that leaves illegal material online and in the wild — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After nearly fifty years of persevering with a life under her husband’s surname, 75-year-old Kyoko Tsukamoto is taking the Japanese government to court so that she can at least bear her own name when she dies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A young gay man recounts his soul-crushing experience being rehabilitated
by the Christian Right — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), has agreed to make pornographic websites inaccessible to Indonesian users of the phone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Concerned by the wave of requests for customer data from law enforcement agencies, Google last year set up an online tool showing the frequency of these requests in various countries. In the first half of 2010, it counted more than 4,200 in the United States.
Google is not alone among Internet and telecommunications companies in feeling inundated with requests for information. Verizon told Congress in 2007 that it received some 90,000 such requests each year. And Facebook told Newsweek in 2009 that subpoenas and other orders were arriving at the company at a rate of 10 to 20 a day — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Conservationists are using giant weather balloons to stalk Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Icelandic politicians have blasted US demands for Twitter to hand over a member of parliament’s account details. Birgitta Jonsdottir faces investigation as one of several people connected to the website WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone has ordered an immediate investigation into alleged breaches of its internet site, which has been revealing the personal details of millions of customers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Plans to cut disability benefits could breach human rights laws, the government has been warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Icelandic MP who once worked with WikiLeaks says US officials have subpoenaed her personal details from the social networking website Twitter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While writing my recent post about how the Catholic church ordered a hospital to let a pregnant woman die, I came across this letter from the ACLU about hospitals’ legal obligation not to deny life-saving care. And I noticed that the letter mentioned an article in the American Journal of Public Health about religiously-affiliated hospitals denying emergency reproductive care to patients
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pet lovers in Massachusetts are optimistic the governor will sign into law this week that will allow them to designate in a will who should care for a pet after the owner’s death — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees’ cell phones without a warrant, saying defendants lose their privacy rights for any items they’re carrying when taken into custody — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When two students asked Eric Anderson, a sociology lecturer at Bath University’s department of education, if he had heard of the game gay chicken
, he shook his head. I had no clue what it was,
he says. So they showed me.
The students – both men – went in to kiss each other.
The challenge was that whoever pulled out first was the loser,
Anderson explains. But because men are no longer afraid of this, they ended up kissing.
Anderson was inspired to carry out a new research project — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today questioned the campaign by major retailers to thwart the rise in overseas e-commerce — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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