The Federal Trade Commission received more complaints about identity theft in 2010 than any other issue. This marks the 11th year in a row that the FTC received more identity theft complaints than anything else -- a problem that has persisted over the years as more and more information is shared on the Internet.
A lawsuit filed against the mayor and city council of Austin will test whether public officials in Texas can use their private e-mail accounts to hide communication about government affairs from public scrutiny. Rulings in similar cases in other states have generally found in favor of public disclosure.
Sony Corp. said it will appeal the seizure of Playstation 3 game consoles by customs officers in the Netherlands following a court injunction initiated by LG Electronics over a patent dispute. The Dutch customs authorities notified Sony at the end of February that an inspection would be made into Sony products imported into the Netherlands, which has now resulted in Playstation 3 game consoles being temporarily withheld, Sony said.
A major software attack on mobile phones has put pressure on Google Inc. to do more to secure its online store for smartphone applications. The company behind the now ubiquitous Android operating system came under fire after computer-security experts uncovered more than 50 malicious applications that were uploaded to and distributed from Google's Android Market.
A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee. Police say Tyler Coyner, 19, was the ringleader in a group of 13 students who have been charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion in connection with the case.
A federal magistrate ruled that Sony can subpoena the ISP of a hacker who has released a PlayStation 3 jailbreak, as well as order Twitter, Google, and YouTube to hand over information from his accounts on those sites. Sony is suing George Hotz, alleging that he violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud Abuse Act for distributing on his Web site his tools for jailbreaking the PS3, which enable PS3 owners to run home brew and pirated applications on their console.
In a paean to deregulation, a group of top telecommunication companies and trade associations sent a letter to the White House, complaining that the Federal Communications Commission isn't doing enough to reduce federal rules. Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon joined organizations like CTIA and Broadband for America in arguing that the FCC, which regulates all of them, is not sufficiently following President Obama's order to review, and if necessary, cut regulations.
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, "e-discovery" software can analyze documents in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost. Some programs can extract relevant concepts -- like documents relevant to social protest in the Middle East -- even in the absence of specific terms, and deduce patterns of behavior that would have eluded lawyers examining millions of documents.
Amid widespread, violent protests in Libya, the country’s Internet has gone dark. This is the second time in two weeks Libya’s Internet has been taken offline.
Courtney Love's 140 character Twitter rants against a fashion designer are costing her more than $430,000, an attorney says. The singer has settled a lawsuit filed by Dawn Simorangkir, who sued the Hole frontwoman in March 2009 accusing her of making false statements about the designer and her past in a series of postings on the microblogging site Twitter and Love's Myspace blog.
The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Much the way firms battled in the 1980s over VHS and Betamax video formats, tech rivals are fighting over the technology used to deliver and display Web video.
Rivals Microsoft and Google are teaming up to sue Geotag, which has sued about 400 companies for violating a patent that it acquired a couple years ago. The patent covers a method for putting store information on a map, and both companies argue that it should never have been granted because of prior art.
The blogging site WordPress was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack is "affecting connectivity" for many of WordPress' more than 25 million bloggers, Sara Rosso of Automattic, which owns WordPress, told Sophos.
A Texas man was charged with illegally streaming live sporting events and other programs on one of the most popular websites for illegal television content, a federal prosecutor in New York said. Brian McCarthy, 32, has been accused of running live feeds of football, hockey, basketball and wrestling on his website www.channelsurfing.net, which he registered in 2005.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have made his state the first in the U.S. to re-introduce online gambling. But he also suggested the state Legislature could revive the effort by asking voters to approve the measure by referendum.
After three years, eight months and 27 days, Robert Soloway -- the internet villain dubbed the "Spam King" by federal prosecutors -- is allowed back online. In his first interview since release from the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon, Soloway swears his spamming days are over.
House Financial Services Committee ranking member Barney Frank, D-Mass., has found a new partner in his quest to legalize Internet gambling and to reverse a 2006 law that outlawed it. Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif., plans to introduce with Frank a similar version of legislation the Massachusetts Democrat helped push through the Financial Services Committee in the last Congress.
European Union antitrust authorities raided several publishers in Europe, searching for evidence that they had acted illegally to keep prices high in the nascent electronic-book market. The EU's interest dovetails with ongoing investigations by authorities in the U.K., California and Texas into the arrangements that publishers make to sell digital books.
Barnes & Noble has settled a lawsuit brought against it by Spring Design, which had accused the top U.S. bookseller of illegally copying a screen design for its popular Nook electronic book reader. Under terms of the agreement, Spring is granting Barnes & Noble a non-exclusive license for all of its patents and patent applications.
Amazon.com has threatened to cut off more than 10,000 affiliates in California if state lawmakers pass legislation requiring the Internet retailer to collect sales tax from state residents. Seattle-based Amazon said four bills introduced in the state legislature are unconstitutional because they would require sellers with no physical presence in California to collect sales tax from its residents, Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president for global public policy, wrote in a letter to the California Board of Equalization, the state agency responsible for collecting property and sales taxes.
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