Tag: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Facebook is joining forces with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Department of Justice to broadcast Amber Alerts across the social network. Each state will soon have its own Amber Alert page, where concerned users will be able to find the latest updates on children who have gone missing in their areas. The official announcement is expected to come at a press ...

For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government has a coordinated strategy for protecting the intellectual property of American companies both here and abroad. The Department of Justice and the FBI will be working closely to enact 30 recommendations put together by the Obama administration, including closely monitoring foreign websites, especially in China, for pirated American music, ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Analysts at Morgan Stanley expect mobile Internet usage to surpass stationary browsing by 2015. According to Mary Meeker (Morgan's leading Web analyst), the mobile Web has grown at a significantly faster pace than desktop usage (such as dial up or broadband). With more and more people snatching up smartphones, though, most of this ...

It was disturbing enough when the government was just listening in. Now privacy advocates are afraid the government may be tracking our every move through our cell phones. In November of 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to find out how widespread such tracking is. The DOJ didn't hand over the data, so ...