Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have been issued a cease-and-desist order and must immediately stop operations in Pittsburgh. In an order, Judges Mary D. Long and Jeffrey A. Watson said the companies cannot operate until they secure the appropriate authority from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
Ten years ago, it was not unusual for entrepreneurs to request and potential investors to sign nondisclosure agreements. But today the agreements are largely considered a thing of the past. In fact, some investors say they walk away from a founder who even suggests signing one.
The U.S. National Security Agency's data collection program has been an effective tool to enhance the country's security but some elements of the cyber-spying raises privacy concerns, a U.S. federal privacy watchdog said in a report. The program has allowed the government to collect a greater range of foreign intelligence "quickly and effectively," the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board said in a report.
Lindsay Lohan is suing the makers of the "Grand Theft Auto" video games. The actress says the latest installment used her image and created a character based on her without her permission.
The lower house of the Russian parliament passed a bill that requires websites to store Russian citizen data on Russian soil. If this bill passes through the upper house, email and cloud services, social networks, shopping websites, and any other website with a presence in Russia will have to put data centers in Russia by September 2016.
Under a new Canadian anti-spam law that went into effect July 1, the sender of any commercial electronic message -- emails, texts and potentially some social media postings -- must first verify that they have the recipient’s consent. The regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, also says the rules apply to senders in the United States or anywhere else who want to communicate virtually with Canadians.
World Cup rights-holders are trying to stop digital competitors who are helping themselves to highlights from this summer’s tournament without permission. In recent years media companies and publishers have sparred over whether clips -- like those on Twitter and fast-acting sites that quickly create animated GIFs and videos on Vine -- fall under editorial “fair use.”
New York's top court struck down a law that made cyberbullying a crime, in what had been viewed as a test case of recent state and local statutes that target online speech. The New York Court of Appeals, in a 5-2 ruling, held that the 2010 Albany County law prohibited a vast swath of speech "far beyond the cyberbullying of children," in violation of the First Amendment.
Just days after saying it would temporarily pause operations, Aereo called on its fans to speak out for its service, telling them to contact their elected officials to show support. "Tell your lawmakers how disappointed you are that the nation's highest court issued a decision that could deny you the right to use the antenna of your choice to access live over-the-air broadcast television," Aereo Chief Executive Chet Kanojia said in a statement.
Russian hackers have been systematically targeting hundreds of Western oil and gas companies, as well as energy investment firms, according to private cybersecurity researchers. The motive behind the attacks appears to be industrial espionage -- a natural conclusion given the importance of Russia’s oil and gas industry, the researchers said.
Microsoft Corp. launched what it hopes will be the most successful private effort to date to crack down on cyber crime by moving to disrupt communications channels between hackers and infected PCs. The operation, which began under an order issued by a federal court in Nevada, targeted traffic involving malicious software known as Bladabindi and Jenxcus, which Microsoft said work in similar ways and were written and distributed by developers in Kuwait and Algeria.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed bills that recognize the legal use of Bitcoins and other digital currencies in California, his aides announced. AB 129 will allow Bitcoins and other digital currency to be legally used in transactions in California by repealing a provision of state law that bars the use of "anything but the lawful money of the United States."
The U.S. Supreme Court said that it wouldn't consider Google Inc.'s challenge to a class-action lawsuit alleging the search giant violated federal wiretap law when its Street View cars collected data from private Wi-Fi networks. The lawsuit followed admissions by Google that its Street View cars, which take street-level photographs of private residences and public buildings for use in the company's mapping service, also collected "payload" data that was being sent on unsecured Wi-Fi networks when the Google cars drove past.
UK cinemas are to ban the Google Glass headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters. Cinemas are alarmed that criminal gangs could use Glass to distribute pirate copies of blockbusters movies -- recording in cinemas is the source of more than 90 per cent of all illegally copied films in their release form.
Europe's antitrust chief said he could investigate Google's YouTube if he saw any attempt by the company to abuse its dominant position in online video searching. The comments by European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia came as he wraps up a separate case against Google, the world's most popular search engine, which was triggered by complaints from Microsoft and others.
The five-year-old National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center has largely occupied itself monitoring threats to government networks. Now, with backing on Capitol Hill, it is poised to bolster its role as an anti-hacking coordinator between U.S. banks, utilities and other companies operating the networks that millions of Americans use daily.
After a series of high-profile data breaches and warnings, corporate boards are waking to cyberthreats, grappling with security issues they once relegated to technology experts. So far this year, 1,517 companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Stock Market listed some version of the words cybersecurity, hacking, hackers, cyberattacks or data breach as a business risk in securities filings, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
Three days after the Supreme Court ruled that Aereo had violated copyright laws by capturing broadcast signals on miniature antennas and transmitting them to subscribers for a fee, the company suspended its service. “We have decided to pause our operations temporarily as we consult with the court and map out our next steps,” Chet Kanojia, Aereo’s chief executive, said in a letter to customers sent under the heading “Standing Together for Innovation, Progress and Technology.”
A day after a surprise U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw streaming TV service Aereo, U.S. broadcaster Fox has moved to use the ruling to clamp down on another Internet TV service. Fox has cited the ruling -- which found Aereo to be operating illegally -- to bolster its claim against a service offered by Dish, America’s third largest pay TV service, which streams live TV programming over the Internet to its subscribers and allows them to copy programs onto tablet computers for viewing outside the home.
The University of California is considering barring employees on business trips from staying in Airbnb rentals, riding in Uber and Lyft cars, or using other "peer-to-peer" services because of concerns about liability and regulation of the marketplaces, which allow people to rent personal resources to one another.
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