Your Rights Online Stories for 2016

Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories 211
Microsoft Patent Suggests HoloLens Could Keep Track of Your Small Items 62
How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar 236
China Says It Will Shut Down Ivory Trade By End of 2017 67
Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears 73
Smart Electricity Meters Can Be Dangerously Insecure, Warns Expert 163
Bad Year For Piracy: 2016 Was The Year Torrent Giants Fell 116
Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser 81
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Than 50 Times in 2016 34
FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report 404
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Site No Longer Says Humans Cause Climate Change 371
Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency 215
Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
Snowden Doc Shows NSA Blamed Russia For Hack of Murdered Journalist 110
Amazon Patents Floating Airship Warehouse For Its Delivery Drones 94
US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] 821
Singapore Will Add Iris Scans As Identifier For Citizens And Permanent Residents Starting January 1 57
Florida Senator: No Permit Needed For Driverless Cars In Florida 131
Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat 119
Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications 55
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware 56
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
Chinese Traders Charged With Insider Trading on Hacked Information 28
FDA Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines For Medical Devices 40
Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows 122
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script 104
Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation 168
Fitbit Drops Lawsuit Against Jawbone 4
Torrent Website ExtraTorrent Under DDoS Attacks; Pirate Bay Also Down 80
The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming 131
Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users 83
Sony Music Apologises To Britney Spears, Fans After Fake RIP Tweet Sent 52
Top Spotify Lawyer: Attracting Pirates is in Our DNA 79
Apple's Beef With Nokia Gets Intense, All Withings Products Pulled From Online Store 118
Uber Says App Doesn't Keep Track of Location; iOS Maps Extension to Blame 38
VidAngel Keeps Streaming Videos, Defying Movie Studios and a US Judge 163
China 'Smart Restaurant' Uses Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions 61
US Court Demands Documents On AT&T/Police Collaboration 48
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
U2F Security Keys May Be the World's Best Hope Against Account Takeovers 162
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
Russian Authorities Are Trying To Unlock iPhone 4S From Russian Ambassador's Killer 106
IBM On Track To Get More Than 7,000 US Patents In 2016 34
US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other 'Piracy Havens' 82
Uber Lawsuit Alleges Employees Were Misled On Equity Compensation 39
Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology 37
Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona 150
Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report 101
Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' 185
Uber Stops Self-Driving Car Pilot In San Francisco After The DMV Steps In 151
NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography 138
Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine 70
Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service 48
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas 338
White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts 27
Government Requests For Facebook User Data Up 27 Percent in First Half of 2016 19
Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies 102
EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter 156
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai 63
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
US Fails To Renegotiate Arms Control Rule For Hacking Tools 31
Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist 492
EU Accuses Facebook Of Giving Misleading Information During WhatsApp Takeover 27
Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 192
Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President 1069
South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers 351
IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump 600
House Committee Urges Congress To Pass Stingray Surveillance Legislation 25
Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income 441
Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network 74
Apple Appeals EU Tax Ruling, Says It Was a 'Convenient Target' 122
Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? 295
A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations 55
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets 212
LinkedIn Warns 9.5 Million Lynda Users About Database Breach 35
Apple Loses In Court, Owes $2 Million For Not Giving Workers Meal Breaks 255
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change 534
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots 210
Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor 149
U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards 134
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Apollo 11 Moon Rock Bag Belongs To Buyer, Not NASA, Judge Rules 63
Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say 128
Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection 103
AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints 102
Yahoo's Billion-User Database Reportedly Sold On the Dark Web for Just $300,000 - NYT 71
Evernote Reverses Course On Opt-out Privacy Policy That Would've Exposed Users' Content To Employees 52
Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data 46
A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords 88
White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack 715
Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews 98
China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content 60
Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here 488
The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules 112
Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report 551
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Malvertising Campaign Infects Your Router Instead of Your Browser 137
Most Businesses Pay Ransomware Demands, IBM Finds 69
Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts 71
Starting Next Year, Evernote Employees Could Access Your Unencrypted Notes 98
Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers 178
Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues 244
Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data 157
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump 244
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters 63
A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report 274
Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police 184
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders 40
Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change 858
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw 188
Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked 69
Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans 455
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available 28
Uber Employees Used the Platform To Stalk Celebrities and Their Exes, Says Former Employee 99
Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' 218
Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? 225
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account 470
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba 46
NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say 412
Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? 123
Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse 433
Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter 59
FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation 85
The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags 165
Researchers Point Out 'Theoretical' Security Flaws In AMD's Upcoming Zen CPU 57
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter 104
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
AT&T To Cough Up $88 Million For 'Cramming' Mobile Customer Bills 37
Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software 221
Paris Makes All Public Transportation Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years' 239
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS 45
Falsely Accused Movie Pirate Deserves $17K Compensation, Court Says 60
Backdoor Accounts Found in 80 Sony IP Security Camera Models 55
New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels 207
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple 100
Supreme Court Considers When US Patent Violations Are 'Induced' Abroad 31
White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More 280
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Google Preparing 'Invisible ReCAPTCHA' System For No User Interaction 57
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time 89
Embedding Isn't Copyright Infringement, Says Italian Court 25
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws 373
BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors 368
Does Windows 10's Data Collection Trade Privacy For Microsoft's Security? 181
70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month 170
How Microsoft Lost In Court Over Windows 10 Upgrades 121
Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP 133
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption 134
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting 71
Crooks Need Just Six Seconds To Guess A Credit Card Number 110
iOS's 'Activation Lock' For Stolen iPads And iPhones Can Be Easily Bypassed 54
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data 83
Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law 137
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 243
Hackers Steal $31 Million at Russia's Central Bank 78
Foxconn Employee Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence For Stealing 5,700 iPhones Worth $1.5 Million 45
Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs 468
Lawyer Sues 20-Year-Old Student Who Gave a Bad Yelp Review, Loses Badly 90
FCC Calls Out AT&T, Verizon For 'Zero Rating' Their Own Video Apps 56
Free TV-Show Streaming Hurts Online Sales, Research Finds 67
Facebook Knows What You're Streaming 100
Multiple Vulnerabilities In AirDroid Opens At Least 10 Million Android Users To MITM Attacks, Hijackings 30
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It 76
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains 53
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
Apple Will Use Drones To Improve the Quality of Apple Maps 44
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
UK ISPs To Start Sending 'Piracy Alerts' Soon 71
Mozilla Puts New Money To Use Fighting For 'Internet Health' 110
FDA Approves Large Clinical Trial For Ecstasy As Relief For PTSD Patients 151
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules 1058
Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users 55
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When You're Not Using the App, Here's Why 131
FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails 153
Facebook Cuts Off Competitor Prisma's API Access 65
China Pilots a System That Rates Citizens on 'Social Credit Score' To Determine Eligibility For Jobs, Travel 204
Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability 30
Holding Shift + F10 During Windows 10 Updates Opens Root CLI, Bypasses BitLocker 138
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 155
Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Certified as Russian Government's First 'Android Alternative' 98
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] 394
Japan Fukushima Nuclear Plant 'Clean-Up Costs Double,' Approaching $200 Billion 302
EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands 72
EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline 351
Google Asked to Remove a Billion 'Pirate' Search Results in a Year 68
Microsoft Confirms Its Chinese-Language Chatbot Filters Certain Topics 19
Amazon and eBay Sellers' VAT Fraud Rife Despite Crackdown 81
48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory 251
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps 524
Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead 145
Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System 141
Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? 400
Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump 1430
Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button 46
Fidel Castro Is Dead 279
Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech 434
6 Major Countries Have Recently Announced Plans To Phase-Out All Coal-Fired Power Plants 275
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say 272
Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts 36
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299
Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case 73
Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name 102
Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe 106
$1 Billion Getty Images Public Domain Photograph Dispute is Over 99
Microsoft Shares Windows 10 Telemetry Data With Third Parties 175
IBM To Pay More Than $30 Million in Compensation For Census Fail 60
Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk 736
Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey 254
Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones 122
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230
Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' 667
Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform 30
Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe 72
Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors 20
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
China Breaks Patent Application Record 28
UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts 135
Sony Accused of Censoring Negative Feedback On Its Bravia TVs Ahead of Black Fri 40
FBI Hacked Over 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries Based on One Warrant 90
Opera Browser Asked to Blacklist Pirate Sites in 'Turbo Mode' 39
Tech Firms Seek To Frustrate Internet History Log Law 85
WordPress Auto-Update Server Had Flaw Allowing Persistent Backdoors In Websites 33
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity 559
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China 45
Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer 39
Surveillance Firm 'Geofeedia' Cuts Half of Staff After Losing Access To Twitter, Facebook 31
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
Aussie Internet Pirates Are The Best Customers 48

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