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Chinese scammers phoned man 14,000 times in one day, demanded cash to stop

Auto-call software once used by the authorities to block spam advertising message calls now used by fraudsters, according to newspaper report

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How to stop robocalls … or at least fight back

Pestering prerecorded calls are reaching record highs, and even hit our cellphones; here are ways you can try to stop them

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India launches probe into corporate phone-tapping scandal

​India has launched a major probe into an alleged phone tapping scandal that targeted senior Ministers, top bureaucrats and corporate honchos between 2001 and 2006.

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Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case

Apple said the U.S. government had failed to show a continued need for its help accessing a locked iPhone in a New York drug case after a third party came forward with a solution to crack a different phone belonging to one of the shooters in December's San Bernardino killings.

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Smartphones are boring: Here's what happens next

LG’s G5 offers a glimpse of what groundbreaking technologies are coming to your smartphone in the future, Joanna Stern writes

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Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bullshit'

NSA whistleblower rubbishes claims that only Apple can unlock killer’s iPhone 5C, indicating FBI has the means itself

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Judge sides with Apple in N.Y. drug case involving locked phone

A federal judge in New York sided Monday with Apple against the Justice Department, about whether the company can be forced to help investigators extract data from a locked phone—a ruling that could affect a similar, much-watched case involving a shooter’s phone in California.

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U.S. DOJ alleges marketing strategy behind Apple's refusal to unlock iPhone

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged on Friday there was brand marketing strategy behind the refusal by Apple, a technology company in Silicon Valley, to help access the phone of a terrorist killer.

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Texting while walking isn’t funny anymore

As pedestrian injuries rise, what responsibility do tech companies have to address our addiction?

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U.S. Senate passes spy agency's surveillance reform bill

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the USA Freedom Act, a domestic surveillance reform bill that would extend the bulk phone metadata collection program of the National Security Agency (NSA) for another six months, after which the practice will be ended.

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Mobile phone, twitter data can be used to estimate crowd size: study

​In an era of mobile internet, data is a key element in many fields. Now researchers said they can even use geographical data from mobile phones and Twitter to estimate the size of a large crowd.

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U.S. House passes surveillance reform bill aimed to stop massive phone call harvests

​U.S. House on Wednesday passed a surveillance reform bill that would terminate a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) program harvesting information on millions of American phone calls.

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Cameron attacked by opposition leader on hiring phone-hacking Andy Coulson

British Prime Minister David Cameron was attacked Tuesday by the opposition Labor Party for bringing "a criminal into the heart of Downing Street" after a British court ruled that one of Cameron's former aides was guilty of phone hacking.

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Princess Diana supplied royal phone book to former royal editor Goodman: media

The Old Bailey, a court which is hearing the case of phone-hacking trial has been told Thursday that Princess Diana leaked a royal phone book to Clive Goodman, the former royal editor of News of the World.

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U.S. gov't seeks keeping NSA phone records longer: report

The Obama administration has asked a special court for permission to hold on to National Security Agency (NSA) phone records for longer than five years, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, describing it as "an unintended consequence of lawsuits seeking to stop the data- surveillance program.

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Tibet's mobile phone users exceed 2.6 mln

The number of mobile phone users in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has exceeded 2.6 million, according to a regional information and technology department.