A Wall Street Journal investigation into online privacy has found that popular children's websites install more tracking technologies on personal computers than do the top websites aimed at adults. The Journal examined 50 sites popular with U.S. teens and children to see what tracking tools they installed on a test computer.
A House Judiciary panel grappled with how antitrust law should be applied to new and evolving digital industries in a way that promotes competition without stifling innovation. Most lawmakers on the Courts and Competition Policy Subcommittee argued that antitrust officials have a place in ensuring competition among technology companies but questioned witnesses about how to find the right balance.
The European Commission has launched an inquiry into the legality of Chinese state subsidies for mobile wireless modems, it said, raising the pressure on Chinese exporters targeting the EU's market in high-tech goods. The investigation follows a complaint by the European Union's sole producer of wireless modems, Option, the EU's executive said in its official journal.
More than a year after President Obama made a White House speech proclaiming that the protection of computer networks was a national priority, the federal government is still grappling with key questions about how to secure its computer systems as well as private networks deemed critical to U.S. security.
Hollywood studios and the maker and licensing authority of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection standard were scrambling to determine whether a so-called “master key” to the anti-piracy encryption technology has leaked onto the Internet. HDCP is a copy-protection technology that encrypts high-definition video traveling between set-top boxes and televisions.
Skyhook Wireless Inc. sued Google Inc., alleging the search giant muscled it out of business deals and infringed on its technology for determining the location of cellphones. In a complaint filed in Massachusetts Superior Court, Boston-based Skyhook alleges Google cost it tens of million of dollars by interfering with a contract, announced in April, to put its location technology on Motorola Inc. phones.
Craigslist said that it had permanently closed the section of its sites in the United States that carried sex-related advertising, but it defended its right to carry such advertisements as well as its efforts to fight sex trafficking. "Craigslist discontinued its adult services section on Sept. 3, 2010, and there are no plans to reinstate the category," said William Clinton Powell, director of customer and law enforcement relations at Craigslist.
Not quite half of United States senators and 40 percent of representatives own what a report called their FullName.com domain names. The report is aimed at focusing lawmakers' attention on a practice known as cybersquatting, in which individuals buy up domain names and then use them to extract money or engage in mischief.
Rights-holders will bear the brunt of the costs for tackling copyright infringers, the UK government has said. The music and film industry will pay three-quarters of the costs of pursuing Net pirates, with Internet service providers paying the remaining quarter.
Software created to help Iranians escape government control of the web has been withdrawn over security fears. Haystack was designed to help people in the country communicate via the web without revealing their identity.
Google confirmed that it fired an employee earlier this year for violating its policies on accessing the accounts of its users. Earlier, Gawker reported that David Barksdale, an engineer in Google's Seattle offices, used his position as a key engineer evaluating the health of Google's services to break into the Gmail and Google Voice accounts of several children.
More than 7,000 students attending City College of New York are beginning to receive notices from school officials that their names, social security numbers and other personal information were exposed after a school laptop was stolen last month. It was password-protected, but not encrypted and, thus far, CCNY officials have found no evidence suggesting that student data has been used for identity theft or other illegal endeavors.
EBay won dismissal of a Tiffany lawsuit accusing the auctioneer of deceiving customers by allowing the sale of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry on its website. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan rejected Tiffany's allegation that eBay engaged in false advertising, the last remaining claim after a federal appeals court on April 1 dismissed the rest of Tiffany's trademark infringement case.
Microsoft announced sweeping changes on to its software policy in Russia, responding to criticism that it has been supporting a crackdown on dissent. The company essentially prohibited its Russian division from taking part in piracy cases against government opponents and declared that it would thwart any attempt by the authorities, in this country and elsewhere, to use such inquiries to exert political pressure.
This month, the FCC is likely to approve what could be an even bigger expansion of the unlicensed airwaves, opening the door to supercharged Wi-Fi networks that will do away with the need to find a wireless hot spot and will provide the scaffolding for new applications that are not yet imagined.
Russian authorities’ newest tactics for quelling dissent: confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software. Across Russia, the security services have carried out dozens of raids against outspoken advocacy groups or opposition newspapers in recent years.
Should you watch what you post on Facebook? Yes and no. A recent report from WMUR suggests that three men located around the town of Nashua, New Hampshire used Facebook updates from area residents to target homes to burglarize.
California Web impostors beware: You may soon be breaking the law, even if you aren't one of the perpetrators targeted by the state's "e-personation" bill. The measure, which is awaiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature, carries fines of as much as $1,000 and a year in jail for anyone who poses as another person online with malicious intent.
A federal appeals court said that software makers can use shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses to forbid the transfer or resale of their wares, an apparent gutting of the so-called first-sale doctrine. The court said that the first-sale doctrine -- an affirmative defense to copyright infringement that allows legitimate owners of copies of copyrighted works to resell those copies -- is "unavailable to those who are only licensed to use their copies of copyrighted works."
The chairman of a key House Judiciary subcommittee praised Apple's announcement that it is easing some restrictions on developers of applications for some Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad.
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