A German regional court issued a nationwide ban on online taxi service Uber, barring it from operating commercial services and leveling stiff fines for any violations of the country's local transport laws. Each violation of the order against Uber and its uberPOP online service was subject to a 250,000 euro ($264,825) fine, a three-judge panel of the Frankfurt regional court ruled.
A Pennsylvania State University fraternity has been suspended after allegedly posting on a private Facebook page compromising photos of women, including some who appeared to be asleep or passed out. The suspension of Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) fraternity comes as State College Police as well as university officials investigate the fraternity's alleged use of the online page with up to 144 active members, including current and former students.
The Federal Communications Commission's internal watchdog has opened an investigation into the agency's effort to draw up aggressive new rules for Internet providers, according to a top Republican lawmaker. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (Utah), who heads the House Oversight Committee, said that the FCC Inspector General had launched an investigation "in the last couple days."
A raft of headlines over the last week about unusually high fraud rates from thieves using stolen credit numbers on Apple Pay has exposed what many of the banks privately acknowledge they have been trying to fix for months. It is not clear, however, that Apple is the naked emperor. More likely it is at least as much the banks’ fault, if not more.
A federal jury in Texas said Apple Inc. did not infringe five wireless technology patents owned by Canadian patent licensing firm Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. Core Wireless Licensing Sarl, a subsidiary of Ottawa-based Conversant, sued Apple in 2012 in a federal court in Tyler, Texas, alleging the iPhone maker used its patents on wireless data transmission in its iPhones and iPads without permission.
U.S. tech companies are caught in the middle of an escalating battle between China’s increasingly active Internet censors and the free-speech activists determined to thwart them. Activists outside of China say they are disguising Internet traffic banned by Beijing -- which includes anything from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, to Gmail and news websites -- by tunneling it encrypted through cloud servers run by major U.S. companies.
Federal authorities investigating the attack at JPMorgan are increasingly confident that a criminal case will be filed against the hackers in the coming months, said people briefed on the investigation. Law enforcement officials believe that several of the suspects are “gettable,” meaning that they live in a country with which the United States has an extradition treaty.
The revelations about National Security Agency surveillance programs by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have started to affect how Americans view their right to privacy and the actions they take to try to protect it, a new survey has found. The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center, found that nearly one-third of American adults have taken steps to protect their information from government surveillance programs that monitor phone and digital communications.
Facebook will still rely on users to report offensive or inappropriate posts, but as of Sunday night, they have more guidance on what the company considers a violation of its standards. In a blog post, Facebook officials responded with an updated guidebook that adds clarity and examples to terms such as “hate speech” without changing the standards themselves.
As legal challenges loom for new net neutrality regulations, GOP members of the Federal Communications Commission are offering some of the first lines of attack. The dissenting opinions of the two Republicans ran 80 pages, and they telegraph some of the arguments on which critics could rely as they prepare legal filings to scrap the new rules.
Europe inched closer to approving new data-privacy legislation that threatens to raise tensions with U.S. technology firms. The European Union body representing member countries reached a tentative agreement on a controversial power-sharing mechanism between national privacy watchdogs that had been holding up the legislation amid furious corporate lobbying.
The State Department said it was upgrading the security of its unclassified computer network to defend against cyber attacks, leaving some employees unable to send outside emails or access the internet. Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the agency, which in November said it had suffered a cyber attack, was improving "the security of its main unclassified network during a short, planned outage of some Internet-linked systems."
China has effectively put a hold on a draft counter-terrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over sensitive information to government officials, a senior U.S. official said. Tensions over cybersecurity and technology policy are a major irritant in U.S.-China relations and President Barack Obama said in an interview with Reuters on March 2 that he had raised concerns about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
A report from security journalist Brian Krebs suggests that a lapse in verification between banks and Apple Pay could allow identity thieves to use CVVs (card verification values) hacked from online stores to link stolen credit card data to an Apple Pay mobile wallet. For now, it's unclear how much this scenario would play out in practice.
The Federal Communications Commission released extensive details of how it would regulate broadband Internet providers as a public utility, producing official wording that almost certainly sets the stage for extended legal fights. The release of the rules had been eagerly anticipated by advocates and lawmakers, as well as broadband and technology companies, since the agency approved new rules for Internet service two weeks ago.
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted 14-1 to approve a bill intended to enhance information sharing between private companies and intelligence agencies about cybersecurity threats. The panel's approval cleared the way for a vote in the full Senate on the measure, which would extend some legal liability protection to companies to make it easier for them to share data with the government to help prevent and respond to cyberattacks.
Scores of education technology start-ups, their pockets full from a rush of venture capital, are marketing new digital learning tools directly to teachers -- many are even offering them free to get a foothold in schools. But the new digital tools have also left school district technology directors scrambling to keep track of which companies are collecting students’ information -- and how they are using it.
A British parliamentary committee has recommended that information such as web browsing history and location tracking data be given an extra level of protection against government spying. The recommendation came in a report that reviewed British spying practices revealed by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
A federal judge said Facebook Inc. must face a nationwide class-action lawsuit seeking to force the social media company to provide refunds when children spend their parents' money on its website without permission. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California said a class of plaintiffs estimated in the hundreds of thousands may press their claim that Facebook should change how it handles online transactions by minors.
The Associated Press sued the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. The legal action follows repeated requests filed under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act that have gone unfulfilled. They include one request the AP made five years ago and others pending since the summer of 2013.
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