Internet providers in Europe may soon be able to sidestep net neutrality principles, which forbid favoring some types of online content over others, thanks to planned new rules that offer a carve-out for “Internet TV and new innovative applications.” The news was announced in a press release by the European Commission that describes future telecom policy for the 28 country block.
A smartphone app developer has settled with a federal regulator over allegations it duped consumers into downloading a “rewards” app that secretly installed software that gathered virtual currency for the developer. Makers of the app, known as “Prized,” agreed to the settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which brings enforcement actions over unfair or deceptive business practices.
Google is facing a new high-profile adversary in the roiling fight over whether its monolithic search engine violates antitrust law: Columbia Law School professor and noted Internet theorist Tim Wu. The author of the influential book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires co-wrote a paper asserting that Google is engaging in anticompetitive behavior by prominently serving up its own content, like restaurant reviews and doctors office phone numbers, in search results.
European Union regulators have granted Google Inc. more time to respond to charges that the U.S. search giant skews search results to favor its own comparison-shopping service. The European Commission, the bloc’s top antitrust regulator, said in a statement that it had “agreed to extend Google’s deadline to respond” to the EU’s allegations after the company requested the extension to review the documents in the case file.
Oracle Corp. won a major legal victory in a closely watched copyright case involving the company's Java programing language as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Google Inc.'s appeal. The decision upholds a ruling that allows Oracle to seek licensing fees for the use of some of the Java language.
Provisions in a website's terms and conditions that act as a sort of data fire sale clause are becoming standard among the most popular sites, according to a recent analysis by The New York Times of the top 100 websites in the United States as ranked by Alexa, an Internet analytics firm. Of the 99 sites with English-language terms of service or privacy policies, 85 said they might transfer users’ information if a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, asset sale or other transaction occurred, The Times’s analysis found.
Uploading booking photographs to police department websites has become a common practice from New England to California, where Facebook pages and department websites have become a popular spot for posting digital lineups. Police officers often say their aim is transparency, not public shaming, but recent cases highlight a challenge for the digital age: When does public notice become public punishment in a world where digital images can live forever?
A private investigator in New York who illegally rummaged through the emails of dozens of people was sentenced to three months in prison as questions arose about how his case was investigated. Two victims of Eric Saldarriaga’s hacking told Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the Federal District Court in Manhattan that they were annoyed that prosecutors had given them little information about the extent of Mr. Saldarriaga’s activities and the potential invasion of privacy.
At the height of the war over net neutrality, Marvin Ammori was one of the most outspoken critics of Internet providers, calling for tough new rules to make sure they don't block, slow or selectively speed up Web sites in exchange for cash. Now he's been hired by the very industry he spent so long attacking.
A robust cyber security insurance policy can be tricky to procure, even for the most meticulous wealth management firms. Interest in cyber insurance has surged over the past year following a number of high-profile hackings, including one announced earlier this month involving the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Privacy advocates have attacked a plan to end anonymity for website owners saying it will put users at risk of harassment and identity theft. Currently, in order to register a web address a user must provide contact details, but many domain registration services offer the ability to keep this information private.
Two GOP 2016 presidential candidates introduced legislation that would push the government to crack down on most forms of online gambling. Republican candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) reintroduced his Restoration of America’s Wire Act and attracted a new GOP co-sponsor, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla), who is also running for president. Five other senators are also supporting the bill.
The top U.S. intelligence official signaled that Chinese hackers were behind the theft of millions of personnel records from the federal government, marking the administration’s most pointed assignment of blame since the breach was announced June 4. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, speaking at a Washington intelligence conference, said China was the “leading suspect” in the attacks, while also adding, “You have to kind of salute the Chinese for what they did,” given the difficulty of the intrusion.
Victims of a widely-used ransom software suffered losses of $18 million over the past 15 months, an advisory by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center says. The CrytpoWall program is the most significant ransomware threat being used to target U.S. businesses and individuals, the FBI said in its announcement.
Peru, Brazil and a group of other South American countries are locked in a battle with Amazon.com over who gets to control a new ".amazon" Web domain. A couple of U.S. lawmakers have now leapt into that debate, writing a letter siding with Jeffrey P. Bezos.
Google Inc. hasn’t yet responded to European Union charges that the U.S. company skews search results to favor its own comparison-shopping service, the bloc’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said. EU antitrust cops charged Google with violating the bloc’s laws in mid-April and gave the company ten weeks to respond to the allegations, escalating a five-year-old investigation.
The head of the Office of Personnel Management refused to estimate how many millions of Americans were affected by recent hack attacks on her agency's computers, but rejected as premature reports 18 million were compromised. OMP Director Katherine Archuleta conceded the number of people whose data was hacked could increase from initial estimates.
Getty Images has become the latest company to take its grievances with Google to EU antitrust regulators as it accused the world's most popular Internet search engine of favoring its own images service at the expense of rivals. The complaint comes as the European Commission waits for Google to respond to charges of abusing its market power in a dozen EU countries since 2007 by distorting search results to favor its shopping service.
Angie's List has sued a subsidiary of Internet giant Amazon.com, accusing it of stealing provider lists and other proprietary information. The federal lawsuit, filed in Indianapolis, alleges that Amazon Local executives and other employees got access to information by signing up as members of Angie's and downloading provider profiles, member reviews and other information.
U.S. securities regulators are investigating a group of hackers suspected of breaking into corporate email accounts to steal information to trade on, such as confidential details about mergers, according to people familiar with the matter. The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked at least eight listed companies to provide details of their data breaches, one of the people said.
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