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Concerns Remain as UN Cybercrime Convention Enters Final Phase

Katitza Rodriguez / Electronic Frontier Foundation Aug 3, 2023 UN Cybercrime Convention negotiations enter final Phase with troubling surveillance powers still on the table. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Major Darknet Site Allegedly Selling Cocaine, Stolen ID Data Busted

DAVID RISING / The Associated Press May 3, 2019 Raids in the U.S. and Europe yield the arrest of three German men in probe of the "world's largest darknet marketplace for contraband." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Do You Know Your Right of Publicity?’ (Audio and Transcript)

Staff and Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jun 23, 2018 "Scheer Intelligence" podcast host Robert Scheer and guest Jennifer Rothman cover a topic that was once the concern of a relatively few famous and powerful people but has now become just about everybody's business. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

‘Crown Jewels of Personal Information’ Stolen From Equifax

By Ken Sweet / AP Sep 8, 2017 Lawmakers criticize the credit reporting company as consumers worry about the exposure of personal data affecting 143 million Americans. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Identity Crisis

Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons Mar 2, 2014 Dig deeper

Cash

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Jan 16, 2014 Dig deeper

Secret Identity Theft

Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons Dec 17, 2012 Dig deeper

ICE Raid Arrest Numbers Rise

Staff / Truthdig Aug 27, 2008 ICE raids -- federal officials who bust into rural factory towns to arrest suspected "illegal immigrants" -- continued this week in Laurel, Miss. The town of about 18,000 saw federal officials revise the number of people arrested in the raid to 595. It remained unknown whether the majority of detainees would serve jail time or be immediately deported. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )