File-sharing website Lime Wire received a January trial date for damages in a copyright infringement case brought by record companies including Warner Music Group. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in New York also gave Lime Wire two weeks to file legal papers supporting its argument that it shouldn't be shut down.
Connecticut's attorney general is asking Google Inc. whether it collected personal information sent over wireless networks in the state, as a growing privacy controversy involving the Internet giant continues to ripple around the world. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said his office would determine whether the company violated state privacy laws when Google gathered private data transmitted over unsecured networks used by residents and businesses.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating claims that the computer giant Apple has refused to sell its new iPad to people of Asian descent, apparently over smuggling fears. The Attorney General's civil rights bureau was tipped off by an Assemblywoman from a Chinese-American section of Queens, who complained publicly last month that her constituents were being asked unusual questions when they sought to buy the devices.
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division.
Hackers have planted viruses in video games for smartphones running on Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system, according to a security firm specializing in mobile devices. The games -- 3D Anti-Terrorist and PDA Poker Art -- are available on sites that provide legitimate software for mobile devices, according to John Hering, CEO of San Francisco-based security firm Lookout.
Bangladesh has lifted a ban on social networking site Facebook after it removed "objectionable" content about the Prophet Mohammad and the country's political leaders, the telecoms regulatory agency said. Facebook was blocked after publication of caricatures of the Prophet that hurt the religious sentiments of the country's majority Muslim population.
Australian police have been asked to investigate Internet giant Google over possible breaches of telecommunications privacy laws, the attorney general said. The investigation follows complaints from members of the public about activities of Google employees while taking photographs for Google Maps, the search engine's maps page.
A San Bernardino mother whose children were kidnapped 15 years ago was able to finally track them down using Facebook. San Bernardino’s Deputy District Attorney says it’s the first time his office has handled a case like this one.
In what could be the first televised political attack to center on Facebook and online privacy, California attorney general candidate Kamala Harris is accusing Chris Kelly, one of her opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, of "designing the Facebook privacy policy condemned across the country."
The music industry has asked a federal court in New York to order a shutdown of the LimeWire service. Lawyers working for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the four top record companies, filed documents requesting that a U.S. District Court in Manhattan grant them a permanent injunction against the country's largest commercial file-sharing service.
As smartphones and the applications that run on them take off, businesses and consumers are beginning to confront a budding dark side of the wireless Web. Concerns are growing among security researchers and government officials that efforts to keep out malicious software aren't keeping up with the apps craze.
The chief of the Pentagon's new cyber-security command endorsed talks with Russia over a proposal to limit military attacks in cyberspace, representing a significant shift in U.S. policy. The U.S. has for years objected to Russian proposals to establish a kind of arms-control treaty for cyber weapons, arguing that international cooperation should first focus on reducing cyber crime.
Google will publish the results of an third-party audit into its Wi-Fi data gathering gaffe and hand over the personal data that it gathered to European officials. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told The Financial Times that Google plans to turn over personal data gathered as part of its Street View project to data protection authorities in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, where investigations are pending into the revelation that Google was gathering a lot more than pictures of streetscapes with its Street View cars.
EU countries can ban online gambling if their aim is to combat fraud, Europe's highest court said, dealing a blow to the multi-billion euro online betting industry seeking to break domestic monopolies. The European Union Court of Justice issued rulings on two separate challenges involving online gambling in the Netherlands.
Germany's consumer protection minister said she would quit Facebook over what she called privacy law violations that she believed would lead to the company being fined by German data protection authorities. Ilse Aigner, an avid user of the online network, said a meeting with Facebook policy director Richard Allan led her to conclude the company was not serious about improving its privacy controls despite assurances it has given.
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg defended the company's privacy practices and expressed regret for some of his behavior during the company's early history, speaking at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital technology conference. In an on-stage interview, Mr. Zuckerberg continued his recent campaign to address criticism that the social network doesn't give customers proper controls over their data—criticism it moved to address by offering some simplified controls.
The FTC has settled its 2-year-old lawsuit against keylogger vendor CyberSpy, allowing the company to continue to sell its RemoteSpy product but placing a few conditions on its use. Announcing the settlement, the Federal Trade Commission said it "put the brakes" on the business practices of CyberSpy Software, which was sued by the FTC in 2008 over the sale and advertising of its RemoteSpy keylogger software.
Children's advocates, technology and legal experts, Web site operators and others struggled to determine how best to adapt a 2000 rule implementing a law aimed at protecting children's privacy to the growing list of devices people are using to get online.
Many people think of online auction sites, such as eBay and Craigslist, as virtual garage sales -- a convenient way to clean out cluttered closets and attics stuffed with old clothes, books and knickknacks inherited from Aunt Gladys. But if you're a frequent or big-time seller, the government might consider your proceeds to be income and could come after you for taxes.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Jules Genachowski, speaking at the D conference, said the most important thing we can do to improve broadband in the United States is to "unleash mobile." When asked about studies that ranked the U.S. low on broadband, Genachowski said the study that makes him most concerned is a study that rated the U.S. 6th out of 40 on innovation, but 40th out of 40th in rate of change in innovative capacity.
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