By 2015, he was back in the United States and, after an arrest in Tennessee on gun and drunken-driving charges, ran for president as a Libertarian, with his campaign video […]
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Back to news homeIn Leak Investigation, Tech Giants Are Caught Between Courts and Customers
On Feb. 6, 2018, Apple received a grand jury subpoena for the names and phone records connected to 109 email addresses and phone numbers. It was one of the more […]
Bitcoin Is Actually Traceable, Pipeline Investigation Shows
When Bitcoin burst onto the scene in 2009, fans heralded the cryptocurrency as a secure, decentralized and anonymous way to conduct transactions outside the traditional financial system.Criminals, often operating in […]
FBI launches operation to remove backdoors from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers
A court in Houston has authorized an FBI operation to “copy and remove” backdoors from hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers in the United States, months after hackers used four […]
Whistle-Blower Says Credit Suisse Helped Clients Skip Taxes After Promising to Stop
The Swiss bank also hired Mr. Wray, then a partner at King & Spalding in Washington who had served as the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division and oversaw […]
Deutsche Bank Said to Pay $100 Million Over Bribery Charges
Federal prosecutors are expected to announce that Deutsche Bank violated anti-bribery laws as it tried to win business in places like China, according to a person familiar with the matter.Deutsche […]
The Antitrust Case Against Big Tech, Shaped by Tech Industry Exiles
“Who the heck consents to having a company track them across the internet,” she remembered thinking. “They could only do it because they had monopoly power to do something that […]
Google’s Legal Peril Grows in Face of Third Antitrust Suit
More than 30 states added to Google’s mushrooming legal woes on Thursday, accusing the Silicon Valley titan of illegally arranging its search results to push out smaller rivals.One day after […]
Google Dominates Thanks to an Unrivaled View of the Web
OAKLAND, Calif. — In 2000, just two years after it was founded, Google reached a milestone that would lay the foundation for its dominance over the next 20 years: It […]
Justice Dept. Suit Says Facebook Discriminates Against U.S. Workers
Mr. Trump has been a vocal critic of temporary worker visas. In October, his administration announced new rules for the H1-B program, substantially raising the wages that U.S. companies must […]