Julian Assange: Governments selectively enforcing laws to punish those who provoke their ire

Julian Assange: Governments selectively enforcing laws to punish those who provoke their ire

As the extradition hearing for Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange unfolds, it is increasingly clear that the prosecution of Assange fits into a pattern of governments selectively enforcing laws to punish those who provoke their ire, reports freedom of information defenders Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). EFF now wants computer crime laws...

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Cambridge Analytica neither misused data nor colluded with Russia, watchdog finds

Cambridge Analytica neither misused data nor colluded with Russia, watchdog finds

Infamous now-defunct data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica did not directly misuse data to shift votes in the Brexit referendum, nor did it work with Russia to meddle in the vote, a three-year UK investigation has found. The organisation, which has in the past 10 years been blamed for electoral mess in...

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Transformation index finds most of 15 largest tobacco companies don’t advance harm reduction

Transformation index finds most of 15 largest tobacco companies don’t advance harm reduction

The first Tobacco Transformation Index (www.TobaccoTransformationIndex.org), released this week and made possible with funding from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, finds that most of the 15 largest tobacco companies are not making substantive progress in phasing out cigarettes and other high-risk tobacco products and transitioning smokers to reduced-risk alternatives....

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Al Shabaab kills 55 as it expands its terror scope beyond East Africa

Al Shabaab kills 55 as it expands its terror scope beyond East Africa

After more than two decades of waging terrorist attacks in Kenya, Al Qaeda-affiliated Somali cell Al Shabaab is apparently widening its scope following the killing of over 55 people in Democratic Republic of Congo precious mineral-rich eastern region of Ituri. According to Reuters, the group said to have Ugandan roots,...

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