German data privacy authorities on Wednesday reopened an investigation into facial recognition software used by Facebook that automatically recognizes facial features in pictures and "tags" users when others upload photos...
The High Court of England and Wales on Thursday denied the plea of a paralyzed man challenging the legitimacy of the Suicide Act 1961 and other laws barring his ability to commit suicide. Tony Nicklinson, 58, along...
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday again heard arguments on two anti-illegal immigrant laws enacted in 2006 by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Hazleton's Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance ...
A Bahraini court on Thursday sentenced prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab to three years in jail for instigating and participating in several anti-government protests. Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights ,...
A cousin of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic on Tuesday received a suspended sentence of one year in prison for hiding the accused war criminal in his house for five years before...
A judge for the US District Court Eastern District of Virginia on Monday sentenced a convicted Somali pirate negotiator to a dozen life sentences. Judge Robert Doumar sentenced Mohammad Shibin to serve 10 concurrent life...
A US House of Representatives committee filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to compel Attorney General Eric Holder to produce subpoenaed documents relating to a failed arms-tracking operation. The House Oversight and Government...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday overturned the decisions of both a panel of its own judges and a lower court in the case of Senne v. Palatine , a...
The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday overturned a $147.2 million jury award against Research in Motion (RIM) . Chief Judge James Ware granted a motion by RIM for...
The UK High Court ruled Monday that two government back-to-work schemes do not constitute slave labor, rejecting plaintiffs' arguments that the programs breach human rights laws on slavery. The court's ruling upholds the Jobseeker's Allowance (Employment,...
