A Staten Island man is poking Facebook with a $500,000 lawsuit for disabling his account, the New York Post reported. Mustafa Fteja said his account was disabled without explanation in September, cutting off his access to friends and family around the world, as well as to personal memories and photos.
Apple removed a notorious anthem of the Nazi Party from the German version of its iTunes online music store, a German spokesman for the U.S. firm told Reuters. Named after a young party activist killed in 1930, the marching song "Horst Wessel Lied," was the unofficial anthem of the Nazis until it was banned in Germany at the end of World War II.
Intel's acquisition of data security firm McAfee cleared its last major hurdle after EU regulators approved the $7.68 billion deal on condition Intel grant rival firms access to its technology. Intel agreed to ensure that rival security firms have access to all necessary information that would allow their products to use Intel's chips and central processing units, the Commission said.
Egypt appears to be blocking Facebook, a day after the government may have done the same with Twitter, as protests and violence escalated against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak. "We are aware of reports of disruption to service but have not seen any major changes in traffic from Egypt," said Andrew Noyes, Facebook's manager of public policy communications.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be the second high-profile victim of a hacking attack on his own Facebook page, following a similar account takeover targeting French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The page sported an uncharacteristic message advocating that Facebook adopt a "social business" model, where profits are invested in areas such as health care for the poor and other charitable causes, according to a report on TechCrunch.
Google's roll-out of Keep My Opt-Outs, a new Chrome browser privacy feature, does not really enable you to universally "opt out permanently," as the search giant puts it, from being tracked online by all advertising networks. Neither does a similar privacy feature Microsoft is developing for Internet Explorer 9, the next version of the world's most widely used Web browser, due out later this year.
As fierce anti-government protests in the Egyptian capital of Cairo began to escalate, word broke out this morning that government forces had blocked access to Twitter's Web site. Twitter users throughout the country reported that they could not access the Twitter.com Web site, though third-party clients were still functioning.
Microsoft sued digital video recorder company TiVo, claiming features in TiVo's set-top boxes infringe four of the software company's patents. The claims of patent infringement, made in federal court in Seattle, revolve around TiVo's program time guide, schedule grid, remote interface and program delivery system.
The House Republicans' first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing. A House panel chaired by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a hearing to discuss forcing Internet providers, and perhaps Web companies as well, to store records of their users' activities for later review by police.
President Nicolas Sarkozy says his Facebook page got hacked — and he jokingly used the opportunity to poke fun at the intruder's spelling mistakes in a fake message saying the French leader won't seek a second term. Sarkozy wrote Monday on his official Facebook page that it had been hacked the previous evening, "perhaps to remind me that no system is infallible."
Facebook, facing potential fines for violating strict privacy laws in Germany, agreed to let users in the country better shield their e-mail contacts from unwanted advertisements and solicitations it sends. Facebook, which has more than 10 million users in Germany, agreed to modify its Friend Finder service to let Germans better block its ability to contact people, including non-Facebook users culled from a user’s e-mail address books.
A new report by Consumer Watchdog accuses the Obama administration of having an inappropriately close relationship with Google, allowing the company to escape scrutiny. The group released the report along with a letter calling on House Oversight chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to investigate Google's relationship with government agencies.
Mozilla is looking to add a new feature to its Firefox browser that would enable users to opt-out of online behavioral tracking by advertisers. The move follows a December report from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that endorsed the idea of a "Do Not Track" mechanism that would allow Web users to choose whether they want to be tracked online.
A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a "national cyberemergency," and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year. The point of the proposal is to assert governmental control only over those "crucial components that form our nation's critical infrastructure," according to Brandon Milhorn, Republican staff director and counsel for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
People who play illegal copies of video games on chipped or modified consoles cost at least £1.45 billion in lost sales in 2010. The Association of UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE), which speaks for the games industry, says it's not just money that's being lost.
Google engineer Matt Cutts posted on his blog that the search giant will be increasing its efforts to rid user results of "search spam" generated by aggregation sites, automated blogs and content farms.
Ever dreamt of controlling a dot-gov or dot-edu? A hacker is selling access to dozens of military, government, and university Websites for $55-499 a piece.
Twitter and Twitter users are being targeted by a malicious worm. The worm sends out tweets with a goo.gl shortened URL link directed to a rogue antivirus application.
The problems continue to pile up for the Pennsylvania woman who became the unwitting star of a viral video after she fell into a mall fountain while text messaging. In the hours that followed Cathy Cruz Marrero's appearance on "Good Morning America" to talk about the fall and its aftermath, she was in court for a status hearing on charges of five felony counts, including theft by deception and receiving stolen property.
Facebook gaffes that can cause trouble in the workplace aren't unique to drunken college students anymore. As more companies and their workers tap into the world of blogs, Twitter and Facebook, employers are tripping over legal potholes in social media.
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