Ireland is about to pass “one of the most radical hate speech bills” in the entire world which will throw people in jail for possessing “hateful” material on their devices and consider the accused guilty until proven innocent. “Ireland is about to pass one of the most radical hate speech bills yet,” Irish nationalist Keith Woods said on Twitter. “Merely possessing ‘hateful’ material... 

A female victim turned the tables on a would-be phone thief when she fought back and threw him down a stairwell into the Paris metro this week, according to reports. The harrowing incident unfolded just before 7 p.m. on Monday evening in the Porte de la Villette neighborhood of the French capital. A 31-year-old woman was walking by an entrance to the subway when a suspect tried to snatch her cell... 

Three off-duty French soldiers were arrested after helping retrieve a woman’s stolen phone from a youth in Paris. The robbery occurred early Sunday morning at the Saint-Amboise metro station; the three soldiers pursued the thief in a brief chase that ended with a fight. All members involved – the soldiers aged between 21 and 24, and the teenage thief who had no identification papers or address... 

The media attempted to equate a trivial accident to physical violence Tuesday after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accidentally knocked a phone out of a reporter’s hand. Footage of the “incident,” captured during a press conference on the GOP frontrunner’s private jet, shows Trump apologizing to a reporter whose phone inadvertently crossed paths with his hand. Fast forward... 

The US National Security Agency has subverted an international agreement in order to save and examine the phone, internet, and other communication records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing, according to a new report. The Guardian report is based on a 2007 NSA memo revealing that the shadowy agency specifically sought to “unmask” the personal data that British residents wanted to keep... 

Almost 1,000 innocent people have been wrongly spied on by the police, security services and town halls because of errors in “snooping” requests. Two people were even arrested and wrongly accused of crimes they did not commit because officials wrote down incorrect details, a surveillance watchdog revealed. And a local council wrongly used snooping powers designed to combat crime to spy on a family... 

Foreign police forces will be able to obtain details of the British public’s internet use, emails and text messages, it emerged last night. In a controversial move, MPs were told that officials in Europe and the US will be able to take advantage of the Home Office’s proposed ‘snoopers’ charter’. The information could be used for pursuing UK citizens for crimes which allegedly took place...