Your Rights Online Stories for 2014

WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government 53
FBI Monitoring Hacking Targets For Retaliation 96
Doppler Radar Used By Police To Determine Home Occupancy 139
Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras 335
NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' 234
Slashdot Asks: The Beanies Return; Who Deserves Recognition for 2014? 299
CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' 197
Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google 45
Lizard Squad: Xbox Live, PSN Attacks Were a 'Marketing Scheme' For DDoS Service 139
Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats 106
United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info 349
The NSA Uses the Same Chat Protocol As Hackers 81
Aereo Gets OK From Bankruptcy Court To Auction Technology Assets 42
Kim Dotcom's Mega Again Announces Encrypted Browser-Based Chat Service 40
2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack 130
Gmail Reportedly Has Been Blocked In China 145
Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie 117
Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry 278
Finn Linked To Lizard Squad Christmas Attack 51
Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview" 180
Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices 420
White House Touts Obama's 1-Liner as 2014 Tech Highlight 65
The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea 288
Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track" 145
13,000 Passwords, Usernames Leaked For Major Commerce, Porn Sites 149
N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" 206
Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' 279
India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue 61
Prosecutors Raid LG Offices Over Alleged Vandalism of Samsung Dishwashers 87
The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week 63
Romanian Cybersecurity Law Will Allow Warrantless Access To Data 62
Lizard Squad Targets Tor 83
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview' 148
NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance 118
US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny 118
Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages 48
How Target's Mobile App Uses Location Tech To Track You 61
North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force 166
DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk 42
Russian Hackers Stole Millions From Banks, ATMs 53
Google Motion Denied In Lawsuit Against Mississippi Attorney General 23
UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet 360
Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball 227
How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm 116
Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force 368
De-escalating the Android Patent War 63
Comcast-TWC Merger Review On Hold 88
Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi 293
BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers 294
'Citizenfour' Producers Sued Over Edward Snowden Leaks 163
Comcast's Lobbyists Hand Out VIP Cards To Skip the Customer Service Wait 131
Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing 190
Pirate Bay Domain Back Online 41
Argentine Court Rules Orangutan Is a "Non-Human Person" 187
Tor Warns of Possible Disruption of Network Through Server Seizures 19
GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals 229
Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts 209
Bitcoin Exec To Spend Two Years Behind Bars For Silk Road Transactions 69
Google Sues Mississippi Attorney General For Conspiring With Movie Industry 114
Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone 75
65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers 246
Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader 86
Staples: Breach May Have Affected 1.16 Million Customers' Cards 97
T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills 51
All the Evidence the Government Will Present In the Silk Road Trial Is Online 52
Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay 81
Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere 89
Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot 484
FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate 556
"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too 230
Australia Moves Toward New Restrictions On Technology Export and Publication 91
Did Alcatraz Escapees Survive? Computer Program Says They Might Have 89
Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' 580
Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC 68
RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft 110
Over 9,000 PCs In Australia Infected By TorrentLocker Ransomware 83
Google Strikes Deal With Verizon To Reduce Patent Troll Suits 20
Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland 177
Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS 388
Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions 218
Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor 170
Apple Wins iTunes DRM Case 191
Uber Limits 'God View' To Improve Rider Privacy 76
Microsoft Gets Industry Support Against US Search Of Data In Ireland 137
Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance 440
NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower 200
Snowden Leaks Prompt Internet Users Worldwide To Protect Their Data 53
The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid 302
Sony Demands Press Destroy Leaked Documents 250
The GPLv2 Goes To Court 173
Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks 74
Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services 281
Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents 130
9th Circuit Will Revisit "Innocence of Muslims" Takedown Order 158
How Identifiable Are You On the Web? 160
Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain 191
Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine 266
Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors 161
Apple Antitrust Case Finds New Consumer Plaintiff 39
Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source 55
'Revolving Door' Spins Between AT&T, Government 61
Hollywood's Secret War With Google 176
IsoHunt Unofficially Resurrects the Pirate Bay 116
Tracking the Mole Inside Silk Road 2.0 81
Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them 515
Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia 157
New Compilation of Banned Chinese Search-Terms Reveals Curiosities 43
Sony Reportedly Is Using Cyber-Attacks To Keep Leaked Files From Spreading 190
Bank Security Software EULA Allows Spying On Users 135
How Your In-Store Shopping Affects the Ads You See On Facebook 69
Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications 379
In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License 207
MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin 416
Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches 105
Army Building an Airport Just For Drones 48
California Sues Uber Over Practices 139
Report: Big Issues Remain Before Drones Can Safely Access National Airspace 129
Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight 100
Court Bans Sale of Xiaomi Smartphones In India 40
Apple DRM Lawsuit Loses Last Plaintiff, but Judge Rules Against Dismissal 71
Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down 251
Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans 209
Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots 291
Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking 192
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again 184
CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations 772
Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain 280
AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads 285
The Rise of the Global Surveillance Profiteers 33
Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software 268
FISA Court Extends Section 215 Bulk Surveillance For 90 Days 83
French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus 699
Civil Case Uses Fitbit Data To Disprove Insurance Fraud 99
Economist: US Congress Should Hack Digital Millennium Copyright Act 129
Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape 180
Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened 137
Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement 96
Twitter Use By Romney and Obama In 2012 Highlight the Speed of Social Media 47
New Mexico Levies $54M Against Energy Dept. For Violations At Nuclear Repository 36
Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? 720
Canadian Agency Drops Cases Rather Than Deal With New Requirements For ISP Info 29
Neglecting the Lessons of Cypherpunk History 103
Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier 388
British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club 135
NSF Accused of Misuse of Funds In Giant Ecological Project 116
US Treasury Dept: Banks Should Block Tor Nodes 84
EU May Not Unify Its Data Protection Rules After All 55
GCHQ Does Not Breach Human Rights, Judges Rule 81
Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns 156
Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods 141
Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? 545
In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite 102
DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority 61
Ron Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban FBI 'Backdoors' In Tech Products 109
FTC: Online Billing Service Deceptively Collected Medical Records 25
Every Weapon, Armored Truck, and Plane the Pentagon Gave To Local Police 191
New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails 341
Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge 250
How the NSA Is Spying On Everyone: More Revelations 148
'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City 218
Negative Online Reviews Are Not Defamation (At Least In Canada) 62
The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS 238
UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea 216
What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality 80
Comcast Forgets To Delete Revealing Note From Blog Post 114
UK Announces 'Google Tax' 602
UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database 150
FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents 229
Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile 130
18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices 446
Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras 262
Cyber Ring Stole Secrets For Gaming US Stock Market 37
10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial 246
UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas 256
BlackBerry Clears Hurdle For Voice Crypto Acquisition 27
How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems 74
Probe Into NSA Activity Reveals Germany Spying On Germans 83
Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU 342
Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools 233
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech 436
Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing 166
Music Publishers Sue Cox Communications Over Piracy 187
Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber 329
Gilbert, AZ Censors Biology Books the Old-Fashioned Way 289
Hackers Breach Payment Systems of Major Parking Garage Operator 38
Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs 237
Kim Dotcom Says Legal Fight Has Left Him Broke 117
Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission 234
Google Told To Expand Right To Be Forgotten 193
Wikipedia's "Complicated" Relationship With Net Neutrality 134
BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? 80
Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous After All 115
Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case 152
Hacker Threatened With 44 Felony Charges Escapes With Misdemeanor 219
Sony To Offer Partial Refunds For PS Vita 60
New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps 90
Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives 88
Top Counter-Strike Players Embroiled In Hacking Scandal 224
Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" 151
Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven 183
Slack Now Letting Employers Tap Workers' Private Chats 79
Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting 1128
DHS Set To Destroy "Einstein" Surveillance Records 71
Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her 189
Class-Action Suit Claims Copyright Enforcement Company Made Harassing Robo-calls 67
Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk 481
Bidding In Government Auction of Airwaves Reaches $34 Billion 85
Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak 145
Spaceport America Loses $1.7 Million Due To Virgin Galactic Delays 46
Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected 128
Judge Unseals 500+ Stingray Records 165
Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market 93
Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing 69
Another Hint For Kryptos 50
The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google 334
Top NSA Official Raised Alarm About Metadata Program In 2009 110
Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More 186
Culberson As Chair of NASA Fundng Subcommittee Makes Europa Mission More Likely 57
Aereo Files For Bankruptcy 137
Leaked Documents Show EU Council Presidency Wants To Impair Net Neutrality 76
Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant 243
Greenwald Advises Market-Based Solution To Mass Surveillance 157
Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court 203
UNSW Has Collected an Estimated $100,000 In Piracy Fines Since 2008 98
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief, Part II: Illustrating the Issue of Trust In Altcoins 46
Amnesty International Releases Tool To Combat Government Spyware 95
WhatsApp To Offer End-to-End Encryption 93
US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive 173
US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition 62
Court Shuts Down Alleged $120M Tech Support Scam 129
Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) 163
Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund 107
Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power 445
UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online 307
City of Toronto Files Court Injunction Against Uber 169
NYT: Privacy Concerns For ClassDojo, Other Tracking Apps For Schoolchildren 66
Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web 212
Uber Threatens To Do 'Opposition Research' On Journalists 299
Court Rules Google's Search Results Qualify As Free Speech 137
Tor Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign To Upgrade Its Hidden Services 106
What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy 144
Group Tries To Open Source Seeds 100
Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games 642
State Department Joins NOAA, USPS In Club of Hacked Federal Agencies 54
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? 159
Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? 135
US DOE Sets Sights On 300 Petaflop Supercomputer 127
AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data 60
Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test 328

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