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Google has to delete offensive autocomplete results, German federal court rules

Google has to remove defamatory autocomplete results when notified, the court ruled

Court orders names to be withheld before release of Aaron Swartz records

The estate of Aaron Swartz had argued that the personal information was important to the public's understanding of the investigation

New York calls on phone makers to help deter theft

In letters to the top four cellphone makers, the state attorney general hints at legal trouble if they don't cooperate

Labor Department hackers more sophisticated than most

Smartphones driving violent crime across US

An IDG News Service investigation finds guns and knives are used in a quarter of all robberies of cellphones in San Francisco

BYOD Policy: Employee Right to Social Media Privacy Is Paramount

Appeals court ruling could be ‘death’ of software patents

But an EFF lawyer says the federal circuit's patent ruling doesn't provide much new guidance

New York man pleads guilty to illegally selling Intuit software

Raymond Locklin placed orders on Intuit for free replacement disks of its software

Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud

U.S. federal prosecutors indicted eight people accused of running a vast carding scheme

San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA

The law would have required cellphone retailers to provide information about alleged dangers of cellphone radiation