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A woman was granted permission by a New York Judge to serve divorce papers on her husband using Facebook. Brooklyn nurse Ellanora Baidoo, can serve the divorce papers to her husband via Facebook’s private message […]

Victims who claim they were raped by Michael Jackson when they were kids are waiting to hear whether they can sue his estate for substantial damages. They allege that Jackson paid up to $200 million in […]

Facebook have two days to release all emails to Paul Ceglia’s lawyer, Robert Ross Fogg, that contain information Zuckerberg had about a hotly disputed contract during an 18-month stretch beginning in 2003.  Ceglia originally claimed that he […]

First it happened in Detroit, now it looks like the same thing is about to happen in Baltimore. Starting in two days with very little notice given and no public hearings, 25,000 households in Baltimore […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is hoping to extend its powers by accessing data which tells them when and where people have traveled, utilising the license-plate tracking system.  Engadget.com reports: According to The Washington […]

A mentally ill man in the U.S. died in police custody in New York after being tasered. The unarmed man, Donald “Dontay” Ivy, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and also had heart problems. He was approached […]

The ex Guantanamo Bay chief, Geoffrey Miller, has been ordered to appear in a French court to answer claims of torture used at the detention facility over a decade ago, following a lawsuit from two […]

A massive fire has erupted at an industrial park in Louisville, Kentucky sending thick, black smoke billowing into the sky Friday morning as the flames consume an enormous building. Nearby, witnesses reported seeing huge clouds […]

The NSA has been granted access to manipulate Facebook chat messages in the event of flash mobs or spontaneous demonstrations that have been “prohibited”. Heise.de report: Facebook manipulated on behalf of the US government critical […]