Byron Tau
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Did Hunter Biden Get a Sweetheart Deal? Prosecutors Weigh In
A look at whether the Justice Department’s agreement with the president’s son is the same as it would have been for anyone else. → Read More
Trial of Clinton Lawyer Michael Sussmann Puts Spotlight on a Veteran Tech Executive
Federal prosecutors are probing Rodney Joffe’s role in 2016 research that pointed to unsubstantiated ties between Donald Trump’s company and a Russian bank. → Read More
Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years
Gay-dating app’s user locations were collected and sold via ad networks since at least 2017. Grindr says it has curtailed the data it shares. → Read More
British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say
Arqit says its encryption system can’t be broken by quantum computers, but former employees and people outside the company question the relevance of its technology and accuracy of its projections. → Read More
Special Counsel Durham Presents New Evidence in Case Against Lawyer
A text message from Michael Sussmann to an FBI official bolsters the special counsel’s case against the defendant whose firm represented then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. → Read More
Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software
Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show. → Read More
Judge Says Trump, Adviser ‘More Likely Than Not’ Committed Crime in Jan. 6 Efforts
Donald Trump and adviser John Eastman “more likely than not” committed a felony in efforts to block the 2020 election result, a federal judge said in ruling the adviser must turn over emails to congressional investigators. The Jan. 6 panel is also seeking to talk to Virginia Thomas. → Read More
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: What to Know
The Senate Judiciary Committee this week considers President Biden’s first nomination to the Supreme Court. Here is how the confirmation process works. → Read More
Republican National Committee Files Suit Against House Jan. 6 Committee
The House panel had subpoenaed records related to the GOP’s fundraising and donor efforts from Salesforce.com Inc., a commercial marketing platform the party used to manage communications with donors. → Read More
Blinken Says Credible Reports of Russian Attacks on Civilians Could Show War Crimes
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said preliminary reports indicate that Russia is deliberately targeting civilians as part of its invasion of Ukraine — allegations that if true would amount to war crimes under international law. "We’ve seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, → Read More
Gig App Gathering Data for U.S. Military, Others Prompts Safety Concerns
Premise is one of a number of companies offering a service that uses Apple and Google smartphones tools for gathering intelligence and commercial information from afar, sometimes without the users knowing specifically who they are working for. → Read More
Jan. 6 Committee Says Trump and Allies Might Have Committed Crimes
In a court filing, the panel says it has evidence that suggests President Donald Trump committed obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy and fraud. → Read More
Premise Mobile-Phone App Suspends Ukraine Activities After Accusations Fly
WASHINGTON—A mobile-phone app that pays users to perform basic observational tasks such as photography and has U.S. defense and intelligence clients suspended its activities in Ukraine on Friday after the Kyiv government accused it of being used by the Russians to target airstrikes as part of Moscow → Read More
Durham Probe Reveals Government Access to Unregulated Data Streams
Special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe points to how cybersecurity researchers and government agencies tap into huge reservoirs of potentially revealing internet data. → Read More
Judge Allows Lawsuits to Proceed Against Donald Trump, Militia Groups in Jan 6. Lawsuit
The ruling with major implications for presidential immunity and free speech is likely to be appealed. → Read More
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Shield Documents from House Panel on Jan. 6
Former president requests emergency order stopping Biden administration from handing over White House records from around time of Capitol riot by his supporters. → Read More
Harvard Professor Charles Lieber’s Trial Gets Under Way
Nanoscientist’s lawyer says he was careless, not criminal, in failing to report some institutional and financial ties to a Chinese university. → Read More
Court Rejects Trump Bid to Block Records From House Jan. 6 Panel
A federal appeals court rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to deny the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol access to records from his presidency. → Read More
Encrypted-Phone Company Says U.S. Improperly Shut It Down
Lawyers for Canadian technology company Sky Global have filed a legal complaint alleging that the U.S. government had improperly shut down its encrypted-messaging business and tarred the company and its executives as a criminal enterprise merely for providing secure mobile-phone technology. → Read More
How Cellphone Data Collected for Advertising Landed at U.S. Government Agencies
Mobilewalla was the source of some of the advertising data used by government entities to track mobile phones without warrants, shedding new light on how device location data is harvested and sold in a secretive multibillion-dollar industry. → Read More