"Jihadist content" on a U.S.-based website calling for action against British lawmakers who backed the Iraq War has been removed after Britain contacted U.S. authorities, police said. The RevolutionMuslim.com website printed the details after Roshonara Choudhry was jailed for life for stabbing former minister Stephen Timms twice during an advice surgery in east London in May in revenge for his support for the war.
Microsoft has adopted a hard-line stance against counterfeiting. It has set up a sophisticated anti-piracy operation that dwarfs those of other software makers; the staff includes dozens of former government intelligence agents from the United States, Europe and Asia, who use a host of "CSI"-like forensic technology tools for finding and convicting criminals. But the hunt for pirates carries with it a cost to Microsoft’s reputation.
The prospects for new net neutrality regulations seem somewhat dim these days, given the Federal Communications Commission's failure to move forward with a plan to reclassify broadband access as a telecommunications service. Nonetheless, neutrality advocates are continuing to push the FCC to forge ahead with new rules that would ban Internet service providers from degrading or prioritizing material.
The military's new Cyber Command, responsible for shielding 15,000 military computer networks from intruders, has become fully operational, the Defense Department said. More than 100 foreign intelligence organizations are trying to break into U.S. networks, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn wrote in the September/October issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.
Facebook Inc. told lawmakers it had taken steps to prevent the sharing of personal information about users, including temporarily suspending certain applications from its site. The statements came in response to a letter from U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D., Mass.) and Joe Barton (R., Texas) to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, after The Wall Street Journal reported recently that certain applications on Facebook were sending users' ID numbers to marketers, in violation of Facebook's policies.
The European Commission called for stronger protection of Internet users’ personal information, after news of data leaks at companies like Facebook and Google highlighted concerns about digital privacy. Viviane Reding, the justice commissioner, announced its intention to overhaul the European Union’s data protection rules to take account of the development of social networking, personalized advertising and other Web services that have raised privacy concerns.
In a long-awaited decision that could shape the debate over Internet taxes, a New York appeals court reinstated Amazon.com and Overstock's lawsuit claiming a state law forcing them to collect sales taxes was unconstitutional. A New York appeals court ruled 5-0 that "the dismissal of the entire complaint was premature" and that the lawsuit should continue.
Nokia Oyj shouldn’t be found liable of infringing Apple Inc.’s patents, the staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission said as a trial started. “The evidence will not establish a violation” of Apple patent rights, the staff, which acts on behalf of the public as a third party in the case, said in a pre-hearing memo.
A 23-year-old California man is in jail accused of breaking into more than 170 e-mail accounts of women and stealing explicit photos of them, as well as sending the photos to their e-mail contacts and posting them on their Facebook pages.
Continuing its campaign against the defenders of copyright law, Anonymous orchestrated a denial-of-service attack against the website of the U.S. Copyright Office today, knocking the site offline for half an hour and rendering it slow to unusable for a couple of subsequent hours.
British data protection officials said that Google had committed a “significant breach” of privacy laws when its Street View mapping service gathered e-mail messages, computer passwords and other personal information without the owners’ knowledge. Yet Google managed to avoid a fine, with the Information Commissioner’s Office accepting a promise from the company that it would take steps to avoid repeating what it has described as an inadvertent error.
A key Republican lawmaker indicated that Internet privacy could be a legislative priority in the next Congress, as a growing number of data breaches draw increased attention from federal regulators. Rep. Joe L. Barton (Tex.), ranking GOP member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, signaled the legislative push in a statement about his correspondence with Facebook executives on privacy issues.
A mother of four reacted sardonically to a federal jury's decision today on how much she owes the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright infringement damages. The Minneapolis jury determined Jammie Thomas-Rasset was responsible for $1.5 million in damages for distributing 24 songs on the KaZaA peer-to-peer file sharing network.
In a lively and sometimes testy Supreme Court argument over a law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, the justices struggled to define how the First Amendment should apply to a new medium. The law would impose $1,000 fines on stores that sell violent video games to people under 18.
A Turkish court ordered that access to Google's YouTube website be blocked again, days after the site was reopened following a 30-month ban. The court in Ankara ordered the closure because the site posted videos showing former opposition leader Deniz Baykal, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported.
Google said that a settlement for a class action suit by Gmail users over privacy violations related to Google Buzz has been granted preliminary approval by a federal district court judge. The settlement, proposed in September, calls for Google to pay $8.5 million toward a fund for organizations focusing on Internet privacy policy or education.
Arguing that Google's AdWords policies confuse consumers and allow companies to free-ride on the brand names of competitors, Rosetta Stone is asking an appellate court to reinstate the company's trademark infringement lawsuit against Google. "Intellectual property law encourages entrepreneurs to develop brands and protect them as trademarks by prohibiting others from free-riding on the entrepreneurs' efforts," Rosetta Stone says in papers filed with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
In a move sure to outrage both file-traders on BitTorrent networks and legal watchdogs, a well-known pornographer has filed a federal copyright suit against 7,098 individuals. Axel Braun Productions filed the complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, alleging that the defendants illegally shared the adult film "Batman XXX: A Porn Parody."
Turkey has lifted its ban on YouTube, two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder. Transport Minister Binali Yildirim, who is in charge of internet issues, said the government had been in contact with Google, which owns YouTube.
Google filed suit against the federal government claiming that the U.S. Department of the Interior did not properly evaluate Google Apps when choosing a new Web-based document system. Google alleges that because the Interior Department specified that the system needed to be part of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, Google Apps never had a chance despite repeated attempts by Google to explain the product.
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