Last year, a clever piece of code grabbed the computers of a foreign company, and held them hostage — detaining information on 5,000 Canadian passport applicants in the process.
A number of people have been detained based on information received from the Saudi Government t which, it is claimed, has placed agents inside al-Qa'ida in Yemen.
Van der Straten told the media that "Croes was detained based on information from one of the other three detainees".
Emwazi claimed Kenyan authorities threatened him in 2009 when he was apparently detained based on information supplied by Britain that alleged he intended to join the Somali militant organization al Shabaab.
It is unclear what kind of information the detained Chinese official is suspected of having given to the United States and whether that information has compromised any operations by the Chinese government.
An Associated Press report quoted Bahrain police as saying the four were detained for providing "false information that they were tourists".
They could make inquiries about people the unit had detained for interrogation, share information about them and ask whether a particular detainee had anything to say on a particular subject.
But the judge, John Mitting, also ruled that while deporting Mr. Naseer and Mr. Khan would be "conducive to the public good," Pakistan had "a long and well-documented history of disappearances, illegal detention, and of the torture and ill-treatment of those detained, usually to produce information, confession or compliance".
Mr Justice Mitting, chair of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac), said that in Pakistan "there is a long and well-documented history of disappearances, illegal detention and of the torture and ill-treatment of those detained, usually to produce information, a confession or compliance".
People are reportedly being detained simply for posting information about the protests on social media, and scores of lawyers were arrested recently as they prepared to make a statement about the protests.
