New U.S. net neutrality regulations have not affected how Charter Communications Inc. invests in building its telecoms networks, Chief Executive Tom Rutledge told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler. In a meeting with Wheeler and other FCC officials, disclosed in a government filing, Rutledge discussed Charter's $56 billion takeover bid for bigger rival Time Warner Cable Inc., which the FCC must approve.
Aaron Pollak and Kyle Clark, cofounders of the Burlington, Vermont-based startup Designbook, filed trademark applications last September for the name of their business, which seeks to provide a community for entrepreneurs to support their emerging businesses by connecting with potential investors and collaborators. They received word in March that Facebook would be filing opposition on the grounds the name would “create confusion in the industry” and imply a relationship between the two, Pollak says.
Google’s European chief executive acknowledges that the company has mishandled its messaging in Europe and is offering an olive branch to the European Commission. Matt Brittin, who oversees Google’s European activities, said in his first interview addressing the anti-trust charges lodged against the company in April, that while the search engine giant disagrees with the accusations, it remains open to a settlement agreement.
Whoever was behind the latest theft of personal data from U.S. government computers, they appear to be following a new trend set by cybercriminals: targeting increasingly valuable medical records and personnel files. This data, experts say, is worth a lot more to cybercriminals than, say, credit card information.
Federal officials are warning as many as four million current and former federal employees that potentially sensitive information may have been hacked, the Office of Personnel Management said. The agency, which is responsible for security clearances and background checks, said it was urging potential victims to monitor their financial statements and obtain new credit reports.
Kim Dotcom has temporarily staved off attempts by the United States to seize the last vestiges of his fortune -- money which was to pay legal bills in the upcoming extradition case. A High Court decision has allowed alleged Internet pirate Dotcom and his three co-accused to attack a legal process which was intended to restrain his remaining funds in New Zealand.
At Facebook's first-ever privacy summit, experts were divided on nearly every topic at hand -- including the definition of privacy itself. The confab, dubbed Privacy@Scale, yielded few practical guidelines on how companies should treat users’ data. Instead scholars, privacy lawyers and engineers from Facebook and elsewhere spent the day debating the basics.
Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified N.S.A. documents. In mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, without a warrant and on American soil, for data linked to computer intrusions originating abroad — including traffic that flows to suspicious Internet addresses or contains malware, the documents show.
Restaurant operator KFC said it filed a lawsuit against three companies in China whose social media accounts spread false claims about its food, including that its chickens have eight legs. The case filed by China's biggest restaurant operator comes as the government intensifies a campaign to clean up rumors on social media.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, honored for "corporate leadership" during EPIC’s Champions of Freedom event in Washington, spoke remotely to the assembled audience on guarding customer privacy, ensuring security and protecting their right to encryption. “Like many of you, we at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make tradeoffs between privacy and security,” Cook opened.
New York state issued its final rules for companies that operate in virtual currencies such as bitcoin, doing little to accommodate complaints that overly tight regulation could hamper a nascent industry. Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of financial services for the state of New York, said the new digital currency rules known as the "BitLicense" will focus on overseeing financial intermediaries only.
A controversial Obama administration plan to cede oversight of the non-profit that manages the Internet's infrastructure is on track to gain government approval by next year's presidential elections, the organization's chief said in an interview. Some Republican lawmakers have raised concerns about the plan to hand over the stewardship of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to a global multi-stakeholder body, worried that it may allow other countries to capture control.
Google Inc. has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes may help show they conspired with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood as he investigated the Internet search company. In a request made public in Manhattan federal court, Google said Viacom Inc., Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. and Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal "have produced nothing" in response to the March 12 subpoenas, and cannot claim the requested material is irrelevant or privileged.
Disconnect.me, maker of an Android privacy app banned from the Play store, has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission accusing Google of abusing its dominant market position. The complaint could add fuel to an ongoing European Union antitrust investigation of Google's business practices.
The Home Depot Inc. asked a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by consumers claiming they were hurt by the company's massive data breach. "All of the claims alleged in the complaint suffer from the same fatal defect found in the vast majority of other breach cases... they have suffered no actual or imminent economic injury that is fairly traceable to Home Depot's alleged conduct," the company says in its filing.
Microsoft Corp. and the IRS are back in court, this time fighting about the U.S. tax agency’s interest in hiring David Boies, the lawyer who beat Microsoft in an antitrust case in 2000. The software company filed a federal lawsuit May 29 in Seattle, marking the latest legal flurry over an ongoing Internal Revenue Service audit.
Google increased privacy controls for users and rolled out a website that answers frequently asked questions in response to increasing concern over how the search giant collects and uses its massive amounts of data. Users have been able to control certain privacy settings for months or years, such as whether to save web browser and location history, which is also used in targeted advertising.
BlackBerry Ltd and television host Ryan Seacrest's keyboard company Typo Products have agreed to settle a patent dispute over the sale of smartphone keyboards of a certain size, the Canadian smartphone maker said. Under the terms of the settlement, Typo will stop selling keyboards for smartphones and other devices with screens smaller than 7.9 inches, BlackBerry said.
The Supreme Court threw out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man convicted for making violent threats on Facebook and said the government must do more than prove that a reasonable person would find the postings threatening. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the conviction would have held up if the jury found Anthony Douglas Elonis knew he was making a threat or should have known it would be seen that way.
Thousands of websites are blocking Congress’s access to their sites in a show of force to protest the Patriot Act. Led by the online activist group Fight for the Future, more than 10,000 sites have added code that redirects any visitors from Internet protocol (IP) addresses from Congress away from their site and towards a protest page.
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