Your Rights Online Stories for 2012

FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet 449
US Firms Race Fiscal Cliff To Install Wind Turbines 98
New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street 584
YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views 167
Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy 275
Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default 101
FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control 210
Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling 90
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave 311
Data Brokers, Gun Owners, and Consumer Privacy 95
Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law 81
LG Seeks Sales Ban of Samsung Galaxy Tablet In Korea 91
FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet 93
Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters 177
Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins 132
Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits 592
Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown 49
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act 218
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
China Tightens Internet Restrictions 83
John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize 243
Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint 43
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167
Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare 342
Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" 212
EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 278
Defending the First Sale Doctrine 338
New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map 1232
Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes 59
UK Court Invalidates Motorola Message Syncing Patents 31
US Congress May Not Have Stomach For Another SOPA 95
Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art 289
Microsoft Patents Virtual Handshakes, Hugs 87
NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems 105
New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up 91
Minecraft Documentary Premiers On Pirate Bay As Well As Xbox Live 75
Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent 85
Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites 132
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest 630
USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video 114
EU Charges Samsung With Abusing Vital Telecoms Patent 96
RIM Pays Off Nokia; Patent Dispute Settled 23
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate 151
ACTA Gets Death Certificate In Europe 36
UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless 278
Japanese Police Charge 2channel Founder Over Forum Posts 62
Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling 149
Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener 354
ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time 268
New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks 511
UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints 108
VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms 111
UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block 163
Obama Releases National Strategy For Information Sharing 83
European Data Retention Rule Could Violate Fundamental EU Law 61
The Mark Cuban Chair To Eliminate Stupid Patents 121
FTC Strengthens Children's Privacy Protections Online 45
School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games 1168
Kodak Patents Sold for $525 Million 117
UK Pirate Party Forced To Give Up Legal Fight 245
Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement 111
Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant 107
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
ICANN Raffle Sets gTLD Processing Order 37
Instagram: We Won't Sell Your Photos 234
Samsung Drops European Injunction Requests Against Apple 71
Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years 346
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Judge Refuses Apple Request For Samsung Ban, But Denies New Trial, Too 156
Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ 46
Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice 313
Australian ISP iiNet Walks Out of Piracy Warning System Talks 120
Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany 471
Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage 1719
New Call For Turing Pardon 231
Twitter Enables Archive Option 25
EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades 95
Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church 1061
When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really? 184
Google Map App's Version of Anonymity Might Violate EU Privacy Laws 89
Analysis of Dexter Malware Uncovers Mystery Man, and Links To Zeus 119
China's ZTE and Huawei Join the German Patent Fray 34
Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? 340
Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members 215
UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move 196
Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama 449
UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected 101
California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy 100
Baltimore Issued Speed Camera Ticket To Motionless Car 286
New "Sanny" Cyber-Espionage Attack Targets Russia 8
Ask Slashdot: Facebook, Twitter For Business, Is It Worth the Privacy Trade-Off? 158
China Quietly Unblocks Names of Its Leaders 39
Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306
iPhone Infringes On Sony, Nokia Patents, Says Federal Jury 166
Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions 82
NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens 332
Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist 345
Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today 383
Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS 146
Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia 192
FCC Moving To Launch Dynamic Spectrum Sharing 30
Facebook Changes Privacy Policies, Scraps User Voting 119
Guatemala Deports McAfee To the US 141
Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam 412
UT Professor Resigns Over Fracking Conflict of Interest 190
Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You 249
How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit 184
Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal 338
Guatemala Judge Orders McAfee Released 139
Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info 172
New EU-Wide Patent System Approved 75
UK Government To Revise Snooping Bill 79
BPI Threatens To Sue the UK Pirate Party Over Proxy 60
US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns 184
Russia and China Withdraw Bid For Internet Control 115
Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement 150
McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight 201
Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me 529
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? 371
Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted 114
Apple and Google Joining Forces On Kodak Patents Bid 97
Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns 297
Bitcoins Join Global Bank Network 84
Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database 84
Nintendo Puts a Bedtime On Wii U Content In Europe 190
Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid 247
Facebook Sued Over App Center Data Sharing In Germany 55
RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu 597
Maker of Hackable Hotel Locks Finally Agrees To Pay For Bug Fix 66
SEC Investigates Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Over Facebook Posting 190
Virginia Woman Is Sued For $750,000 After Writing Scathing Yelp Review 424
Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next 132
John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center 219
US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board 76
Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo 506
Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy 277
Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court 165
EU Resists US Lobbying As Privacy War Looms 131
McAfee Arrested In Guatemala 184
MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' 308
FTC Bars Ad Firm From Snooping Browser History 21
Richard Stallman: 'Apple Has Tightest Digital Handcuffs In History' 515
Report Warns That Censorship Will Not Stop Terrorism 101
Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups 82
NZ Pirate Party Takes Issue With Pro-Trans-Pacific Partnership Website 31
Verizon Patents Eavesdropping Using Your TV For Ad Targeting 181
Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe 133
HP Sues Over LCD Price Fixing 56
ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection 152
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films 196
Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages 342
Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle 289
Facebook Users Voting On Privacy, Instagram, Other Issues 80
A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed 209
Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales 268
Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit 85
Apple Patents Wireless Charging 253
Ericsson Seeks US Import Ban On Samsung Products 102
Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief 158
The Countries Most Vulnerable To an Internet Shutdown 94
Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky 115
McAfee Was Not Captured 150
Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures 161
Who Owns Your Health Data? 99
Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence 193
McAfee May Have Been Captured 148
Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer? 291
Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted" 325
Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? 386
The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs 132
Senate Committee Approves Stricter Email Privacy 60
Apple Claims Ignorance of Jury Foreman's Previous Tangle With Samsung 186
How Syria's Rebels Communicate In the Face of Internet Shutdown 80
How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall 58
7 Jailed In 'Kidney For iPad' Case In China 100
Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode 186
DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years 305
4 Microsoft Engineers Predicted DRM Would Fail 10 Years Ago 142
Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? 943
Syrian Malware Servers Survive, Then Die 23
British Pirate Party Asked To Pull Pirate Bay Proxy 80
FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn 346
Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node 325
Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail 369
Newzbin2 Closes For Good 204
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
Syria Drops Off the Internet Grid 156
California Software Maker's Fortunes Track Dispute With Chinese Gov't 94
Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers 252
Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times 133
Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Technology 292
BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill 238
Nokia Asks Court To Block RIM Products For Violating Patent Agreement 52
TVShack Founder Signs Deal Avoiding Extradition 147
US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws 205
Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud 79
Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates 292
Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost 499
Google Found Guilty of Libel For Search Results In Australia 223
Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue 116
GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won 397
Prediction Market Site InTrade Bans US Customers 260
Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas 132
NYC Police Gathering Cellphone Logs 122
Sandia Lab Celebrates Inventor of the Modern Clean Room 42
Federal Officials Take Down 132 Websites In "Cyber Monday" Crackdown 153
Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Against Recording Police 225
Apple Claims New Infringement After Being Ordered To Tell Samsung HTC Secrets 287
US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom 609
Confidential Police Documents Found In Confetti At Macy's Parade 180
Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues 203
Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case 379
Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas 486
FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom 241
Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma 118
"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court 285
Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge 388
Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? 686
LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far 219
Judge Issues Temporary Order Blocking Expulsion For Refusing To Wear RFID Tag 305
Microsoft Granted Patent For Augmented Reality Glasses 89
Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop 376
Samsung Claims iPad Mini, iPad 4, New iPod Touch Also Infringe Patents 124
Fox News Parent NewsCorp May Face Corruption Investigation 145
Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women 591
US Judge Orders Apple To Share HTC Deal Details With Samsung 106
Facebook To Eliminate Voting On Privacy Changes 52
World Governments Object To New gTLDs 135
UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo 222
High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves 363
Outrage In India Over Arrests For Facebook Posts 90
Google Warns Against UN Net Conference 79
NTSB Dumps BlackBerry In Favor of iPhone 5 100
Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case 218
South Korean Man Given Suspended Sentence For Retweeting NK Propaganda 90
Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD 163
Mannequins That Watch Shoppers 97
Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License 255
Form1 3D Printer and Kickstarter Get Sued For Patent Infringment 211
Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order 743
Why Big Data Could Sink Europe's 'Right To Be Forgotten' 128
Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee 518
Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines 211
That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill 107
Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails 124
USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' 153
Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges 237
Pirate Party MEP Helps Draft New Credit Card Company Controls 129

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