Yahoo published its first-ever transparency report outlining global government data requests it received between January 1st and June 30th of this year. "We take user privacy seriously and appreciate our role as a global company in promoting freedom of expression wherever we do business," the company writes.
Path has been granted an extension by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to challenge Pinterest’s trademarking of a stylized “P,” as seen in its app logo. The problem? The little red-and-white P with a mullet flourish looks an awful lot like Path’s logo, too.
Google was hauled into a French court by former Formula One racing head Max Mosley, who wants the Internet giant to scrub its search results of grainy images of a sexual escapade. The images were found to be a privacy breach by a U.K. court, only to pop up elsewhere online.
Almost 60 percent of polled Internet users don't believe it is possible to remain completely anonymous on the Web, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. More than 85 percent of those surveyed, in fact, have taken steps to remove or mask their digital footprints -- such as clearing cookies, encrypting their email, not using their real names online, cloaking their IP addresses, and more.
Home security camera maker Trendnet has reached a settlement with the FTC over charges that it failed to protect customer privacy after a massive security vulnerability was discovered and exploited last year. The breach allowed hackers to watch and monitor total strangers by tapping into live video feeds from thousands of the company's internet-connected cameras.
Facebook will not roll out controversial changes to its policies until next week, the giant social network said. Six consumer watchdog groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to block the changes that they say would make it far easier for the company to use the names, images and personal information of its nearly 1.2 billion users -- including teens -- to endorse products in ads without their consent.
The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents. The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.
In a bid to amend a recently enacted but heavily criticized anti-piracy law, Russian lawmakers have proposed heavy fines for Internet providers that fail to block pirate websites. Under an amendment, co-authored by director Stanislav Govorukhin, Internet providers could be fined between $9,000 (300,000 rubles) and $30,000 (1 million rubles) for failure to block access to websites that offer pirated content.
Microsoft won another key courtroom victory in the second phase of a landmark lawsuit with Motorola Mobility over patent licensing fees. A federal jury in Seattle ordered the Google-owned handset maker to pay the software giant $14.5 million in damages for breach of contract for failing to license at reasonable terms standard essential patents covering wireless and video technology used in the Xbox game console.
Dance music brand Ministry of Sound is suing Spotify for copyright infringement, claiming the streaming music company has refused to delete users' playlists that copy its compilation albums. Ministry of Sound launched proceedings in the UK High Court on Monday, and is seeking an injunction requiring Spotify to remove these playlists and to permanently block other playlists that copy its compilations.
Russian computer-security expert Eugene Kaspersky said consumers are paying the price of new technologies with their privacy, and argued that it is hard to tell whether the programs National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden exposed are justifiable, because it is unclear how many lives they saved. Mr. Kaspersky's closely held company works routinely with government security forces, including U.S. agencies and Russia's Federal Security Service, to combat the spread of malicious software.
Syria's civil war and political strife in Egypt have thrown up new battlegrounds on the Web and driven a surge in cyber attacks in the Middle East, according to a leading Internet security company. More than half of incidents in the Gulf this year were so-called "hacktivist" attacks -- which account for only a quarter of cybercrime globally -- as politically motivated programmers sabotaged opposing groups or institutions, executives from Intel Corp's software security division McAfee said.
Nokia may have sold its handset business to Microsoft but by hanging on to its valuable patent portfolio, the Finnish company can try to boost royalties by suing Android phone makers, or unload the patents in a future deal. Nokia, once the world's dominant handset maker, has failed to close a yawning lead opened up by Apple and Samsung in the highly competitive market for smartphones.
Computer hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad struck an Internet recruiting site for the U.S. Marine Corps, urging troops to "refuse your orders" if the United States attacks Syria. The attack appeared to be the work of the Syrian Electronic Army, which also recently targeted the New York Times' website and Twitter.
Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s general counsel and chief navigator of its thorny digital First Amendment issues, is departing the company. The move now is unusual, because it comes just before Twitter is moving closer to preparing for and filing its initial public offering.
U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides new evidence that the Obama administration’s growing ranks of cyberwarriors infiltrate and disrupt foreign computer networks.
The U.S. Department of Justice's talks with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have hit a wall as the government pushes back at the tech companies' demand for the ability to disclose the now-secret data requests they receive.Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, described as a failure the outcome of the companies' recent negotiations with the government over the disclosure of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders the companies receive.
Can law enforcement obtain a search warrant to dig through a vast trove of e-mails, instant messages and chat logs because they have reasonable suspicion that the owners of those accounts robbed computer equipment from a private company? No, according to a ruling by a federal judge in Kansas.
A shell company in Texas is invoking a 1996 patent to claim a monopoly over remote location services like Apple’s “Find my Friends” and Google’s defunct “Latitude,” filing lawsuits against the two tech companies and against major phone carries like Verizon. The lawsuits, which also refer to Apple’s “Find my iPhone” service, could spell trouble not just for the corporate giants but for the many small players in the burgeoning industry for location-based smartphone apps.
A hacking attack on websites run by New York Times Co., Twitter Inc. and other companies highlights a longstanding soft spot in Internet security: The Web's version of a phone directory is controlled by outside companies. Although large firms often spend millions to combat a growing list of cyberthreats, the keys to their Web addresses -- the names that usually end in .com -- often are held by one of hundreds of so-called domain-name server registration companies.
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