A new Android app has launched with the focus of allowing Muslims to report individuals who commit blasphemy, or insult Islam. No, this is not a joke. The app, “Smart Pakem”, which launched in Indonesia last month at the request of the Indonesian government, will allow users and government officials to uphold Sharia law.

Apparently, sitting on the floor in Brooklyn is against the law and, if you've got a baby in your arms, watch out! Oh, and she's black.

Author Carmen Segarra sounds off on Goldman Sachs, deregulation and how our culture rewards bad behavior. By Robert Scheer.

Denver's proposed supervised injection site collided with federal law Tuesday, when the United States Attorney's Office in Colorado and the local Drug Enforcement Administration office released a joint statement slamming the idea of a supervised injection site.

Peter Brown was born in Philly, but he visited Jamaica for one day, years ago on a cruise. That gave U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Sheriff of Monroe County, Florida a good enough reason to detain Brown and attempt to deport him to Jamaica, even though he has never lived there and doesn't know a single person there.

In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections due to which attackers could gain free access to the system and spied on encrypted communications.

A Guatemalan migrant separated from her daughter at the border has been told she faces the possible loss of her parental rights, in part because her daughter was born in the United States.

Netflix and Warner Bros settle with The Satanic Temple after the group tries to sue them for using images of their goat statue in the new Sabrina series.

Their October trial date delayed, a group of 21 youth fight to show that the government knew climate change was coming — yet took actions that made it worse. By Chris Gray.

Proud parents capturing their children's performances on smartphones are probably all breaking the law.

A US appeals court ruling today said that cable companies do not have a First Amendment right to discriminate against minority-run TV channels. Charter, the second-largest US cable company after Comcast, was sued in January 2016 by Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks (ESN), which alleged that Charter violated the Civil Rights Act of 1866 by refusing to carry TV channels run by the African-American-owned ESN. Allen, a comedian and producer, founded ESN in 1993 and is its CEO...

Democrats and Republicans can agree on at least one thing: The spam robocall situation has gotten entirely out of hand.

The Trump DOJ’s prosecution of Assange will be cheered by Democrats, as they unite to criminalize the core of investigative journalism. By Glenn Greenwald.

The WikiLeaks founder has long drawn the attention of federal investigators for revealing U.S. secrets.

“First Mueller and now me. When we are fully exonerated I am coming for you Jacob Wohl aka Surefire,” Michael Avenatti tweeted.

At least 60 Indigenous women are pursuing a lawsuit alleging they were sterilized against their will, as recently as last year. Is there an issue of systemic racism within Canada's healthcare system?

Academic publisher Elsevier has repeatedly made the news for its battle with Sci-Hub, the "Pirate Bay" of science. However, while Elsevier is using copyrights to protect its business, academic-insiders accuse the publisher of "anti-competitive" actions.

One of the former attorney general’s final acts was to make it nearly impossible for federal civil rights lawyers to rein in police abuse. By Ryan J. Reilly.

Microsoft president Brad Smith fears facial recognition. Too bad his company makes it.

Businesses must account for situations that can put the data of their customers, employees, and partners at risk. Some things are easily overlooked when implementing an actual privacy plan. Here is a checklist to make sure you get it right.