The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for its Facebook service (...
SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …
GAO sustains a Microsoft protest and asks NSA to reevaluate the award of a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS
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DOJ court documents: three former US intel operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the UAE, face charges of conspiring to violate hacking laws
The US Department of Justice has fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company. Source: U.S. Department of Justice .
Federal appeals court rules the NSA's mass surveillance program was possibly unconstitutional and the program's “bulk collection” of metadata was illegal
The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans' phone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional …
California Supreme Court rules that Apple violated CA law by not paying employees at its stores for time spent on mandatory bag and iPhone searches
admittedly this was a couple of years ago — not even NSA employees had to go mandatory bag searches as they left secure facilities. https://twitter.com/... Will / @itswilltime : Note: Disneyland emplo...
Former NSA contractor Harold Martin sentenced to nine years in prison for the theft of 50TB+ of classified government files
Former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin was sentenced Friday to 9 years in prison for his role in a massive theft of classified documents.
Report: court documents, government and industry sources detail decades of Huawei's alleged IP theft, from the science behind 5G to phone accessory designs
But That's Not The Worst Of It James Vincent / The Verge : China supplies around 80% of world's rare earths, crucial elements for electronics, but this monopoly is not an effective tool to retaliate o...
Court records: Harold T. Martin III, a former contractor charged with stealing NSA secrets, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday; he faces 20 counts
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