A report today from Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society predicts that in lieu of backdoors to encrypted messaging apps, intelligence agencies will increasingly turn to less fortified vectors to conduct digital surveillance.
The founder of Liberty Reserve virtual currency pleaded guilty to running an enterprise that laundered more than $250 million obtained by criminals through identity theft, credit card fraud, computer hacking and other illicit activities.
An IRS program launched to improve fraud prevention needs improvements, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said -- as the FTC rolls out an upgraded identity theft website.
The Senate Judiciary Committee gave the nod to the Judicial Redress Act, which would provide citizens of major U.S. allies a course of redress regarding information shared with U.S. law enforcement, sending it on to the full Senate.
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