On August 9 during a fatal shooting, 28-year-old Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson killed an 18-year-old unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. A killing charge was submitted against that police officer. But lately, a grand jury has dismissed the case by declaring that Wilson will not be charged for killing that teenager in that fatal shooting.
This is not new that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) often takes down websites that they want. The latest news is lately, FBI has found some of the hidden servers of TOR and hence, it has taken down 27 websites. Tor wants to know how FBI found it, but the agency is not revealing that.
36-year-old Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAmo, is the last co-founder of popular file-sharing website, Pirate Bay. Lately, this person has been apprehended by immigration police of Thailand.
Apple is very much cautious to keep its strategy and info of its product a secret before announce. And the company could turn itself into a nightmare to those who leak info of its product, strategy or something classified before announce. During a contract signed with GT Advanced Technologies, Apple mentioned that it would fine $50 million if any info of its future products gets leaked.
Imagine a DNA being used to deduce the face of the person to whom the DNA belongs. That may sound like science fiction but researchers at Penn State are on their way to accomplish this.
Many people run searches for their own names, or the names of people they know, on google.com. Last year, Christopher Viatafa, who resides in California did the same thing, but interestingly, he found himself in 'most wanted' list and surrendered to police!
In some country, Google's Street View is much popular. But the very interesting thing is Brazil has ordered Google to hand over the Street View data that it has collected within the country till now by next Saturday.
Earlier we have seen the search giant Google being fined $10 millions dollars for violating Safari privacy settings and $190,000 over Street View service. And now it seems like due to a French agency, Google has found itself once again in the hot seat over its data practices!
The debate that how online free speech is different from real-world right to free speech has been going on for a while. Now a U.S. court has made things a little clear by ruling that Facebook 'Likes' are also protected under the First Amendment.
'Revenge porn' is usually when angry boyfriends upload nude images and other explicit content of their ex-girlfriends. These images are then widely shared on the web, thus causing indirect harm to the victim. The Legislature is now considering a ban on publishing such materials online and deeming it illegal.