Your Rights Online Stories for 2015

Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 344
Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work 139
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated 267
Lessig: Future Tech Will Help Privacy Catch Up With the Internet 35
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
Paramount and CBS File Lawsuit Against Crowdfunded, Indie Star Trek Movie 228
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy 216
Drone Registration Is FAA's Way of Getting You To Read Their "EULA" 131
Microsoft Patents a Slider, Earning EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award 127
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law 50
Russia Cancels All Moon Missions Till 2025 135
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA 410
NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module 120
Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" 474
TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel 428
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet 77
Reluctance To Go Mobile Inhibiting Innovation In Financial Services 104
FAA's Drone Laws Clash With Local Regulations 115
China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys 170
Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It 440
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
Bruce Schneier: IoT + DMCA = More Monopolies, Limits On Consumer Choice 118
How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road 163
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program 232
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication 146
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
Hyatt Hotels Payment-Processing Systems Hit By Malware 32
Wyndham Settlement: No Fine, But More Power To the FTC 17
Federal Circuit Overturns Prohibition On "Disparaging" Trademarks 118
FTC Issues New Rules for Native Advertising on the Internet 120
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities 82
USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems 62
Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands 167
Schneier: We Need a Better Way of Regulating New Technologies 123
Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early 211
German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner 263
TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed 278
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case 98
The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords 118
DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative 143
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
HIV Dating Company Accuses Researchers of Hacking Database 71
Oracle Settles FTC Charges Regarding Deceptive Java Security Updates 33
A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet 177
Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor 72
Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads 75
FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress 226
HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages 141
Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government 104
Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans 92
FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available 300
ICANN's Ex CEO Fronts Chinese Initiative On Running the Internet 55
Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone 143
UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy 118
Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' 456
Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? 295
US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact 153
White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push 161
NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots 13
Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List 162
EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 63
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying 69
Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? 94
Tacoma Goes All In To Support Municipal Fiber 90
"Most Hated Man In America" Martin Shkreli Arrested On Suspicion of Fraud 245
Cox Is Liable For Pirating Subscribers, Ordered To Pay $25 Million 166
Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage 124
Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) 132
Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default 102
Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil 134
Dallas Buyers Club Case Struck Down By Federal Court 33
PRESTON: The UK's "Big Brother" Comprehensive National Database System 57
Facebook Tweaks Its "Real Names" Policy 114
British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm 421
The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village 31
CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill 166
Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea 563
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
EU Rules Would Ban Kids Under 16 From Social Media 161
MacKeeper Discloses 13 Million Mac Users' Details With Poor Hash Protection 72
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools 241
21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack 53
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration In DirectTV Case 119
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand 209
Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines 347
Tor Hires Former EFF Chief As Executive Director 33
Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype 44
NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds 99
FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February 533
A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal 339
North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun 760
Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices 116
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data 115
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors 347
DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack 147
Paris Climate Deal Adopted 292
UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own 197
Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump 365
LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak 91
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors 91
"Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain 120
Interviews: Ask Attorney and Author Mike Godwin a Question 83
France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says 89
Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model 201
FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits 79
Ex-US State Dept. Worker Pleads Guilty To Extensive Sextortion Case 60
NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards 165
How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects 251
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Cybercriminals Learning To Filter Out Undercover Cops 63
Qualcomm Faces Antitrust Charges In Europe 33
Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content 305
First Ever EU Rules On Cybersecurity 21
Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years 99
In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You 94
Spotting And Culling Terrorist Groups On Social Media: Pipe Dream, or Possibility? 69
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
Senators: Has Uncle Sam Paid Off Ransomware Criminals? 53
US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All 81
Apple's Legal Fight With Samsung Revealed a Gold Mine of Top-Secret Information 109
NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit 118
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft 138
Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS 452
Congress Joins Battle Against Ticket Bots 150
How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea 289
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist 50
New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands 238
Iran's Military Nuclear Program Lasted Longer Than We Thought 134
Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook 149
Copyright Troll's Property Seized To Pay Bankruptcy Debts 69
Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime 155
Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping 50
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror 138
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser 172
IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out 113
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? 174
The FSF's Donald Robertson Talks About Secretive Trade Negotiations (Video) 32
Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks 100
Why Legal Experts Are Up In Arms Over a Trade-Secrets Bill Microsoft Loves 48
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Wih Messenger Revamp, Yahoo Joins the 'Unsend' Trend 49
After Demanding $3 Million Ransom, Hacker Dumps Massive Customer Financial Data 124
Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives 177
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware 43
City Sued Over Smart Meter-Related Patent 60
DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread 210
Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 1134
The FSF's Donald Robertson Talks About Copyrights, Patents, and the TPP (Video) 39
Microsoft Promotes New Trade Secrets Bill 28
China Blamed For Attack On Australian Bureau of Meteorology 44
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones 63
Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime 390
DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests 79
Phishing Blast Uses Dropbox To Target Hong Kong Journalists 12
Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter 93
Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight 130
HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' 200
US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania 63
VTech Hack Gets Worse: Chat Logs, Kids' Photos Taken In Breach 69
Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction 475
Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access 173
It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City 100
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Swedish Court Says ISPs Can't Be Forced To Block Pirate Bay 20
Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports 90
How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? 210
DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom 49
France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests 248
NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday 139
Swedish Court: ISPs Can't Be Forced To Ban the Pirate Bay 55
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks 298
Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine 95
Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars 319
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
Insurer Refuses To Cover Cox In Massive Piracy Lawsuit 101
Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs 151
Green Light Or No, Nest Cam Never Stops Watching 199
Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy 223
High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware 94
Disney IT Workers Prepare To Sue Over Foreign Replacements 262
Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email 328
BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea 64
Patreon Users Threatened By Ashley Madison Scammers 76
Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use 152
With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes 365
FAA To Drone Owners: Get Ready To Register To Fly 195
Dell Accused of Installing 'Superfish-Like' Rogue Certificates On Laptops 92
"Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages 818
New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data 27
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms 313
How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism 393
Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History 119
US and China Setting Up "Space Hotline" 15
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
Florida Group Wants To Make Space a 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue 118
Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement 130
Comcast Xfinity Wi-Fi Discloses Customer Names and Addresses 49
FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers 48
Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks 486
Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims 608
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program 93
Nation-backed Hackers Using Evercookie and Web Analytics To Profile Targets 47
EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack 275
FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling 514
EFF launches Site To Track Censored Content On Social Media 39
Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format 206
YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse 56
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
New Anti-Piracy Law In Australia Already Being Abused 73
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption 291
Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine 110
The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital 399
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal 210
Facebook Can Block Content Without Explanation, Says US Court 147
How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear 130
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
Terrorism Case Challenges FISA Spying 108
DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement 161
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) 342
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet 184
ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy 175
Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks 488

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