Chinese officials are going after Samsung and Oppo for pre-loading their devices with bloatware. According to ShanghaiDaily.com, the Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Commission received customer complaints about apps that came pre-installed on their devices and could not be removed.
A company that specializes in selling software allowing governments to hack into computers has itself been hacked, and files posted appear to show it sold surveillance technology to dozens of countries, including Sudan, Egypt, Russia and the U.S. The Italian company, Hacking Team, has made waves for offering its surveillance tools to law enforcement around the world.
Amazon.com Inc. must face a trademark lawsuit brought by a watchmaker which says the online retailer's search results can cause confusion for potential customers, a federal appeals court ruled. The 2-1 opinion from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a lower court ruling, and said high-end watchmaker Multi Time Machine Inc. is entitled to a trial on its trademark allegations.
The Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency and a host of other agencies joined British officials and a number of private companies for a three-week cyber war game, testing 14 teams on a range of simulated attacks on two continents. The exercise, held in June at a military facility in Suffolk, Va., aimed to prepare the U.S. military, security officials and others for what some believe is the next frontier in warfare: cyberattacks.
Russia's parliament gave its final approval to a law that would require Internet search engines to remove users' personal information from their results. The bill, passed by the State Duma lower house in its third reading, seeks to emulate European Union rules on the "right to be forgotten", under which search engines must take down certain results that appear under a search of a person's name.
In March, Microsoft sued Japanese electronics maker Kyocera, alleging Kyocera's Android phones violated seven Microsoft patents. On July 2, the two companies resolved that suit, and simultaneously signed an expanded patent-licensing arrangement, according to a very brief press release from Microsoft.
U.S. banking regulators must hire and train more examiners with technology expertise so they can give more useful cyber security recommendations to small and mid-sized banks, a federal watchdog agency has warned. A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office identified the issue as one of several that banking regulators need to address as cyber security threats become more prevalent and sophisticated.
Sprint said that it would stop limiting data available to unlimited plan users after a public backlash. The company introduced an unlimited talk, data and text plan, but said it would slow down data speeds for consumers watching video.
A former federal agent pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoins during the government's investigation of Silk Road, and to secretly soliciting payment from the operator of the online black market for information on its probe. Carl Force, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, admitted to charges of extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
Russian lawmakers are watering down a draft law on their version of the “right to be forgotten,” in a rare thaw in relations between the Kremlin and local Internet groups. Lawmakers earlier this month gave preliminary approval to a draft bill that would have allowed people to say what information they wanted deleted from search results without even specifying hyperlinks -- giving their right a far greater reach than their European counterparts.
China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law that covers everything from territorial sovereignty to measures to tighten cyber security, a move likely to rile foreign businesses. A core component of the law, passed by the standing committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), is to make all key network infrastructure and information systems "secure and controllable".
A court in Vienna has rejected a class-action suit against Facebook that centered on how the social network collected and used data on its 1.4 billion users. The case was led by Max Schrems, an Austrian law student, who had collected roughly 60,000 signatures from people around the world as part of the lawsuit -- the largest privacy class-action case brought against Facebook.
The FBI is investigating at least 11 physical attacks on high-capacity Internet cables in California's San Francisco Bay Area dating back a year. Agents confirm the latest attack disrupted Internet service for businesses and residential customers in and around Sacramento, the state's capital.
Two executives from California-based Uber will face trial in France on Sept. 30, the Paris public prosecutor said, part of a French crackdown on what the government calls an illegal taxi service. Thibaud Simphal, manager of Uber France, and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, general manager for western Europe, were detained by police in an investigation that earlier led to Uber's offices being raided by police in March.
Google won a legal victory over German performing rights organization Gema, which had sought to make the company's video-sharing service YouTube pay each time users watched music videos by artists it represents. A Munich court rejected Gema's demand that YouTube pay 0.375 euro cents ($0.004) per view of certain videos.
A federal appeals court upheld a 2013 decision finding Apple Inc. liable for conspiring with publishers to raise the price of e-books. The 2-1 ruling by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan follows three years of litigation, millions of dollars in legal fees and a bold decision by Apple to challenge the U.S. Department of Justice to a trial, even after all the publishers with which it was accused of colluding had settled their cases.
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.
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