The UK government has announced that it is to look again at plans to block websites that infringe copyright. The controversial measures formed part of its crackdown on net pirates, outlined in the Digital Economy Act (DEA).
A California man has filed suit against AT&T for what he says are inflated data charges for Apple's iPhone and iPad. AT&T's billing system for data is like a "rigged gas pump," according to Patrick Hendricks, who filed the suit.
A recently discovered flaw in Internet Explorer could allow criminals to collect passwords and banking information. Microsoft is warning Windows users to be aware of the problem, with a manual work-around available, but there is no downloadable software fix available yet. So far, Microsoft says it "has not seen any indications of active exploitation of the vulnerability."
The arbiters of speech in China sprang into action over the weekend: Sina.com and Netease.com -- two of the nation's biggest online portals -- blocked keyword searches of the word "Egypt," though the mass protests were being discussed on some Internet chat rooms. The use of "Egypt" has also been blocked on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
A new Facebook advertising format that turns members' actions into promoted content on their friends' profile pages could be a gold mine for the social-networking company. But, like many new Facebook features, it has stirred unease among privacy advocates and some consumers.
India and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. are in a deadlock over the issue of monitoring corporate emails as the world's fastest growing market for wireless services insists the Canadian smartphone maker provide it access. "We will insist they give us a solution for (the) enterprise service too," Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters, citing an earlier agreement reached by the company and the Indian government on the smartphone's messenger service.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the need to communicate over the Internet and more broadly freedom of speech must be addressed in a substantive way by the Egyptian government going forward, whoever is in power. He said that must be part of any "orderly transition" of government, which the U.S. has been calling for in recent days.
The Federal Communications Commission filed motions to dismiss what it calls "premature" lawsuits from Verizon and, more recently, MetroPCS over net neutrality. The FCC's three filings in the D.C. Circuit note that its December Open Internet order has not yet been filed in the Federal Register, so the telecommunications companies' challenges are premature.
Web activist group Anonymous has criticized the arrest of its members claiming the web attacks they launched were a legitimate form of protest. Five men were arrested in connection with web attacks carried out in support of WikiLeaks.
Connecticut's attorney general says an agreement has been reached with Google allowing negotiations to begin over the company's collection of data from public Wi-Fi networks. Attorney General George Jepsen said it means Connecticut and a 40-state coalition can proceed to negotiate a settlement of privacy issues without a protracted court battle.
iPhone 4 owner Donald LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, claiming the company is misleading customers about the strength of the glass casing on the iPhone 4. LeBuhn is asking that Apple reimburse the plaintiffs in the case for the cost of the phone and any repairs.
Egypt has cut off nearly all Internet traffic into and out of the country in the largest blackout of its kind, according to firms that monitor international data flows. Renesys, a Vermont-based company that tracks Internet traffic, said that just after midnight Cairo time, or 5 p.m. New York time, Egyptian authorities had succeeded in shutting down the country’s international access points.
Government lawyers filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to overturn new rules designed to protect Internet freedom. In documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., lawyers for the Federal Communications Commission call the lawsuit by Verizon and MetroPCS "fatally premature" and argue that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had executed more than 40 search warrants in the United States as part of an investigation into an international group of computer hackers who attacked corporate Web sites last year in a show of support for WikiLeaks. The FBI investigation is part of a larger international inquiry into a loose confederation of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” that coordinated the cyberattacks against the Web sites of companies like PayPal, Visa and MasterCard late last year after they severed ties with WikiLeaks.
Two men who set up an alleged online scheme to scare more than a million people into buying bogus software have agreed to pay more than $8 million in "ill-gotten gains," the Federal Trade Commission announced. The men, a father and son, agreed to pay the money as part of a settlement after federal investigators accused them and five others of creating "scareware" to trick people into thinking their computers were infected.
It's the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine the private zones of Facebook and other social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and other tidbits that might contradict what their opponents are saying in court. And increasingly, judges in civil cases are granting access to online caches that had formerly been considered off-limits.
Amid increasing scrutiny of the Internet-data industry, a group of people who analyze such online information are trying to get their colleagues to commit to a code of ethics. Among other things, the new code asks workers to ensure that consumers have a means to opt out of tracking and that privacy policies provide a clear explanation of data collection and usage.
Netflix, the DVD mail-order-company-turned-online-video-giant, is firing back at cable and telecom firms as it weighs in on an increasingly thorny debate over net neutrality. In a blog, Netflix published a ranking of how Internet service providers perform in delivering Netflix's online streaming videos. Chartered gets highest marks for delivering videos at high speeds, therefore better resolution.
Police in England have arrested five young men on suspicion of taking part in distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by Anonymous, the group that has targeted corporate sites for attack in defense of WikiLeaks. The five, aged 15 to 26, were detained at addresses in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, and London, the Metropolitan Police Central eCrime Unit said in a statement.
House and Senate committee leaders backed dueling legislation to extend online surveillance provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that are set to expire at the end of February. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced the bipartisan 2011 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act, which would continue to allow roving wiretaps of suspects who change computers or phone numbers to avoid monitoring; tracking of "lone wolves" -- people of interest with no known links to terrorist groups; and retrieval of records and other tangible evidence from organizations with a court order.
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