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Microsoft Wins Big in Fight for User Privacy as Irish Search Warrant Found Invalid

Microsoft won a huge victory in the name of user privacy on Thursday as an appeals court has ruled that a federal warrant to seize email from a Microsoft server in Ireland is invalid. Continue reading

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Accused in UK Drug Trafficking Case Challenges Use of Deleted Emails as Evidence

Legal representatives of a UK man are accusing Yahoo of violating email users’ privacy by preserving deleted emails. Continue reading

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Aging Hardware Could Corrupt Evidence in Megaupload Case

Megaupload was shut down by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in January 2012, and maintenance of the servers the evidence is stored on became an issue almost immediately. Continue reading

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Oracle Wants $9.3B from Google as 6-Year-Old Java Copyright Battle Continues

Oracle is looking for $9.3 billion in damages from Google as its long-running copyright battle goes back to court on May 9. Continue reading

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Android N to use OpenJDK: Is Google vs. Oracle over?

Google has committed almost 9,000 files with the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK), signalling that OpenJDK will be used in the forthcoming Android N release, and that the applicability of copyright to application programming interfaces (APIs) may not be decided by the courts any time soon.… Continue reading

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