Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday a plan to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants housed in federal correctional facilities. Sessions said the Justice Department will expand the Institutional Hearing Program, which identifies removable illegal immigrants who are inmates in federal correctional facilities, provides in-person and video teleconference immigration removal proceedings,... 

State to seize control of cars via wi-fi sensors to reduce “traffic congestion” & global warming. The UK government today announced a plan to remotely control vehicles on roads using wi-fi technology in order to reduce traffic and offset global warming, the latest manifestation of the ‘Internet of Things’ that will stir up concern amongst privacy advocates. A report released today... 

The Obama administration has renewed the authority for the National Security Agency to regularly collect the phone records of millions of Americans as allowed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The United States government has reportedly asked the FISA court every 90 days since 2006 to renew an order that compels the nation’s telecommunication providers to hand over telephony metadata... 

The U.S. Justice Department found those to blame in the global crisis of the late 2000s. According to the American authorities, this is Standard & Poor’s. The accused is confused, while the U.S. Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit against the agency. It wants to make Standard & Poor’s accountable for publishing inflated ratings of mortgage bonds. Allegedly, this publication...