The US government cannot force Microsoft to give authorities access to the firm's servers located in other countries, a court has ruled. The decision is being seen as a precedent for protecting the privacy of cloud computing services. The US Department of Justice had wanted to access a server in Ireland, as part of an...
The FBI has collected nearly 430,000 iris scans over the past three years, an investigation by technology website The Verge, has revealed. What started as a pilot in 2013 has grown into a database "without any public debate or oversight", said the American Civil Liberties Union. It amounted to "runaway...
The defense team for the man convicted of murder and featured in the podcast "Serial" is expanding ahead of a new trial with help from a major law firm. Adnan Syed was convicted of murdering his former high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999 and burying her in a Baltimore park. He was sentenced to life in prison....
Christopher Leonard survived the beating in the sanctuary of the Word of Life Christian Church in upstate New York that killed his brother, Lucas Leonard. On Tuesday, while testifying against his step-sister Sarah Ferguson, one of eight church members charged in connection with the death, Christopher Leonard admitted he had...
Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page appeared in the court today to face a claim that they ripped off the opening riff to their iconic 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven." The 2014 lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claims that the band stole the lick from a 1968...
For the fourth time since Michele Harris disappeared in 2001, her estranged husband Calvin Harris will go on trial for murder in upstate New York. Prosecutors have persisted through overturned convictions and a mistrial in a high-profile case with no body, no weapon and — after 15 years — no resolution. Jury...