According to a Bloomberg report, a UK court stood by with the arrest by authorities of David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald did the story on Edward Snowden's claims of e-mail surveillance done by the US government to civilians.
The Court of Appeal of New Zealand said in its ruling today that the warrants used by New Zealand authorities to arrest Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom were legal as the defects pointed out in the documents were insignificant.
Australia has inadvertently made public the identities of almost 10,000 asylum seekers, the department of immigration said on Wednesday, raising concerns it could help locate people fleeing persecution and thus place them in greater danger.