The US Department of Justice has charged eight men with running a vast ad-fraud scheme.
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Microsoft due in court over warrant for emails stored in Irish data centre
Microsoft and the Obama administration will appear in a federal appeals court today to decide whether or not companies with a presence in the US must hand over foreign-held data when presented with a valid search warrant.
Silk Road coupon forger charged with wire fraud
US law enforcement’s infiltration and takedown of the Silk Road underground marketplace has turned up yet another court case, with a New Orleans man charged with selling counterfeit shopping coupons through the site, and its successors, on an epic scale.
Microsoft deluged with support in its email privacy battle against US government
75 amicus briefs show the industry’s fierce belief that the US is overreaching in its demands to get email off an Irish server.
Microsoft: US would be outraged if another nation ransacked its servers
That’s exactly what the US is doing, Microsoft says: trying to sidestep international law by demanding a customer’s email from servers in another country. 
Spy in the sky? Flying surveillance devices are scooping up Americans’ phone data
The US Marshals Service program uses Cessna aircraft to slurp data from mobile phones in a flying range that covers most of the country’s population. 