A major lawsuit is about to take place in the Netherlands, dragging the issue of the resale of digital media back into European courts. A local startup called Tom Kabinet opened the virtual doors on its secondhand ebook bookstore.
Facebook and the New York district attorney’s office are in a bitter fight over a privacy question that was bound to come up sooner or later in the digital age: Does a government demand for the entire contents of hundreds of Facebook accounts amount to an illegal search of people’s digital homes, and can a service provider like Facebook do anything to stop it? In confidential legal documents unsealed on Wednesday, Facebook argues that Manhattan prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of its users last year by demanding the nearly complete account data of 381 people, from pages they liked to their photos and private messages.
Fledging cooperation between the United States and China on fighting cyber crime has ground to a halt since the recent U.S. indictment of Chinese military officials on hacking charges, a senior U.S. security official said. At the same time, there has been no decline in Chinese hackers' efforts to break into U.S. networks, the official said.
Music trade association Impala has asked European Union antitrust regulators to intervene in a row with Google Inc'.s YouTube over its paid streaming music service, saying some conditions demanded by the company were anti-competitive. YouTube, the world's most popular online video website, unveiled plans for the new service, which it said would provide new revenue for the music industry.
Google began filtering out results for some users under Europe's new "right to be forgotten." The action comes in response to the ruling in May by the European Union's top court that individuals have the right to request the removal of embarrassing Internet search results tied to their names.
A new jailbreak for Apple’s iOS software that uses confidential information intended only for security researchers could develop into a more sinister attack, according to security analysts. The “Pangu” jailbreak, believed to be developed in China, was publicized on a website.
Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, said it has sued three Japanese companies over alleged infringement of patents related to panel production. In a statement, the Taiwanese company alleged that the three Japanese companies violated a number of its patents on panels used in televisions, monitors, smartphones, notebook and tablet computers.
President Barack Obama's administration will push the U.S. Congress to enact legislation to give European Union citizens the right to sue in the United States if they think their private data has been released or misused, the U.S attorney general said. Allegations of vast U.S. spying programs have complicated EU-U.S. ties at a delicate moment in transatlantic relations as Brussels and Washington negotiate a free-trade pact that would encompass almost half the world's economy.
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a potentially fatal blow to Aereo, an Internet service that allows customers to watch broadcast TV programs on mobile devices. Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, stressed that it was a limited decision that will not “discourage the emergence or use of different kinds of technologies.”
The Iraqi government is blocking news and social-media websites in some areas and shut down the Internet entirely in others in a bid to keep extremist Sunnis from building public support through online channels. The Ministry of Communications told Internet service providers on June 15 to block Facebook and Twitter, as well as WhatsApp, Instagram and Google Inc.'s YouTube, said two of the country's largest ISPs.
T-shirts, hoodies and even toy figurines bearing the ISIS logo are being sold on online and marketed across social media. "Where hateful content is posted and reported, Facebook removes it and disables accounts of those responsible," a Facebook spokesperson told CNN via email.
Montana officials are notifying 1.3 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by hackers who broke into a state health department computer server. The letters are going to people whose information and records were on the server.
The U.S.’s secret surveillance court is unaccountable to the public and not “inclined to promote justice,” Microsoft’s top lawyer said. General counsel Brad Smith said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews applications and appeals involving U.S. government data-collection efforts in the name of national security, acts unlike most other courts because “only one side gets to tell its story.”
German book publishers have filed a complaint with the country’s antitrust authority against Amazon, accusing the online retailer of violating competition laws and asking the government to investigate. The complaint comes nearly two months after Amazon began delaying shipments of titles from Bonnier, a leading publishing group in Germany, as part of a dispute over dividing revenue from e-book sales.
A federal judge ordered Samsung and its law firm to pay over $2 million for disclosing the contents of a highly confidential licensing agreement between Apple and Nokia, which Samsung had obtained in the course of its never-ending patent fights with Apple. The punishment, set out in an order by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal, requires Samsung and Quinn Emanuel to pay Apple nearly $900,000 in legal costs and another $1.15 million to Nokia over the incident, which came as an embarrassment to the prestigious law firm.
Google has struggled for years to settle an antitrust investigation in the European Union, to avoid a huge fine and the stigma that would come with breaking the law. Now it appears there may be no end in sight to the Internet search giant’s antitrust problems in Europe even if it does finalize a tentative accord reached in that case, according to a letter from Joaquín Almunia, the competition commissioner and the most powerful antitrust enforcer in the 28-country bloc.
Several parking startups that want to make it easier to find a parking spot in busy cities are facing a legal gauntlet in San Francisco, where the city attorney sent one company a cease-and-desist letter and is warning two others. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sent a letter to MonkeyParking, which offers an app that allows people to post information about the spot they are about to leave.
Google quietly has planted its political roots in places far beyond the U.S. Capitol — in state legislatures and city councils that have become hotbeds for tech policy fights. The company has hired an army of lobbyists from coast to coast as it seeks to protect its self-driving cars, computer-mounted glasses and other emerging technologies from new rules and restrictions, according to an analysis of state records.
European wine producers, together with their Californian and Australian counterparts, are fighting a rear-guard action to prevent the introduction of Internet domain names such as .vin and .wine. Producers of fine wines argue that making the .wine and .vin domain names available could make it easier for unscrupulous companies to pass off inferior wines as Champagne, Brunello di Montalcino or Napa Valley sparkling wine.
Twitter Inc. said it hasn’t agreed to block extremist accounts in Russia, rebutting earlier statements by the country that access was being restricted. Instead, the San Francisco-based microblogging service said it’s been showing Russian officials how to report illegal content so that it could be withheld in the country, without committing to remove any specific accounts.
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