The U.S. Supreme Court has admitted a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a music professor of University of Denver, who has challenged a 1994 recopyright law that removed thousands of foreign works from the public domain and gave them copyright protection.
Convicted Robert Kennedy killer Sirhan B. Sirhan, who is serving a life term, has been denied parole for the 13th time.
A New York Supreme Court judge has ruled that a person's constitutional right to a fair trial outweighs the press privilege, even if the information obtained by the latter is confidential in nature.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Defence Minister admitted in parliament on Wednesday flaws in his doctoral dissertation that is at the centre of a plagiarism affair weighing on her government.
In a probable response to the unrest rolling through the Middle East and North, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has reportedly promised to lift the country’s state of emergency in the very near future.”
New scanning software from TSA eliminates passenger-specific images and puts in auto-detection technology instead.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) backs California student's right to freedom of speech after Mesa Verde High suspended him for calling teacher fat on Facebook.
U.S. aviation security authorities on Tuesday unveiled a new pilot program aimed at quelling an uproar about full-body scanners used to screen air travelers -- the new software will no longer produce an image of the actual person.
Being the first of the social media websites to be blocked in Egypt amid anti-government protests, Twitter has churned out a blog on the importance of freedom of expression.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Thursday said there was no possibility of providing India access to corporate emails on BlackBerry devices.
The most important factor in terms of security is protecting the account from threats like viruses, malware and hackers. Although Facebook uses complex systems that operate behind the scenes to protect the account, it does not mean your account is fully protected.
The Department of Justice was reprimanded today by the U.S. Congress for suggesting the necessity of the Internet Data Retention legislation, which if passed would require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to preserve records of user activity longer, but failing to provide more details on how it could aid in criminal investigations.
Google released a new Keep my opt-out extension for its Chrome browser in an attempt to uphold the users right to be left alone even as its competitor Mozilla added a do-not-track feature to allow users to bar third-party, advertsing targeted tracking.
Swiss police on Wednesday arrested former banker Rudolf Elmer on fresh charges of breaching Swiss bank secrecy law for giving data to WikiLeaks, hours after he was found guilty of another secrecy offense.
After making changes to its third-party data access function, Facebook does a u-turn and rescinds the new feature.
Lawyers for 20 U.S. states and Obama administration sparred in a Florida court over the constitutional challenges of the new healthcare law that requires all Americans to have medical insurance before 2014 or face a fine.
