Justin Elliott reports: Surprising no one, the FBI announced today it had tracked the left-wing historian Howard Zinn for 25 years, despite having apparently no evidence that he ever committed a crime. The bureau released over 400 pages of its file on Zinn, covering 1949 to 1974 — when the bureau says its investigations ended —…
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Not all aboard on T perv
Richard Weir reports: It is by no stretch creepy, even downright offensive. Perhaps morally wrong. But when does snapping a picture of a woman’s cleavage on a subway cross the pervert-perp line and become criminal? The recent case of a man wanted by Transit Police for such alleged lewd and lascivious conduct has stirred a…
Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy
Nick Wingfield reports: The online habits of most people who use the world’s dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. That wasn’t the plan at first. In early 2008, Microsoft Corp.’s product planners for the Internet Explorer 8.0 browser intended to give users a simple, effective way to avoid being tracked online. They…
U.A.E. Is to Bar BlackBerry E-Mail Over Security Issues
Joseph Berger reports: The United Arab Emirates, long regarded as one of the most business friendly economies in the Middle East, announced Sunday that starting in October it will prevent BlackBerry owners from sending and receiving e-mail and other messages and browsing the Internet because the security-minded government cannot adequately monitor those features on the…