Police in China said they had arrested about 15,000 people for crimes that "jeopardized Internet security", as the government moves to tighten controls on the Internet. Since taking over in 2013, President Xi Jinping has led an increasingly harsh crackdown on China's Internet, which the Communist Party views with greater importance and acknowledges it needs to control, academics and researchers say.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek apologized for an updated privacy policy that "caused a lot of confusion" and sparked fears over what content the streaming music service can access on a user's device. Under a section called "Information Stored on Your Mobile Device," Spotify says "with your permission, we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as contacts, photos, or media files."
A group of prominent authors says Amazon.com Inc. has “unprecedented power” over the book publishing market and wants the U.S. Department of Justice to begin an investigation of what it claims is a monopoly. The Authors United group submitted a formal request to the DOJ’s top antitrust official.
InterDigital Inc. has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license its technology considered essential to mobile phone communications, Microsoft Corp. said in a lawsuit. The complaint against InterDigital, filed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, deepens a long-standing fight over patent licensing between the two companies
Google has been ordered by the Information Commissioner’s office to remove nine links to current news stories about older reports which themselves were removed from search results under the "right to be forgotten" ruling. The search engine had previously removed links relating to a 10 year-old criminal offence by an individual after requests made under the right to be forgotten ruling.
The release of the names and personal information of millions of potentially cheating spouses around the world will undoubtedly have disastrous consequences for many couples, but Ashley Madison members might think twice before suing over the website's hacking. Those who decide to take legal action will likely out themselves as one of the notorious website's purported 39 million members. And just like with any ordinary data breach, they would have to prove they were harmed in some way in order to collect damages.
Two popular Popcorn Time websites have been taken offline and their alleged operators arrested as part of a police raid that occurred in Denmark. Neither man is accused of actually hosting any content on his website, only using the site to show other users how to access the popular, albeit illegal, movie streaming service.
Target Corp. agreed to reimburse thousands of financial institutions as much as $67 million for costs incurred from a massive 2013 data breach that damaged the retailer’s reputation with shoppers and cut into sales. The agreement, struck with Visa Inc. on behalf of banks and other firms that issue credit and debit cards, comes as the card industry and merchants are moving toward more secure cards that are aimed at stopping such attacks.
The launch of the “.sucks” domain back in March sent a wave of panic through company public relations teams. Despite the furor, more than 6,000 of the domains have been snapped up. While most have been bought for damage limitation purposes and simply parked, inventive companies are exploring more creative uses of .sucks.
China has resumed work on a set of banking cyber security regulations it suspended earlier this year, reviving a potential source of friction with the United States just weeks before Xi Jinping makes his first trip to Washington as China's president, people with knowledge of the matter said. At a meeting in Beijing, officials from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) told representatives from several Western technology companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Cisco Systems, they would seek opinions over the next month on a new version of the bank procurement rules, one of those present at the meeting said.
Computer hackers who breached AshleyMadison.com, a dating website that targets married people, are reportedly beginning to share the site's user data online. The hackers uploaded 9.7 gigabytes of data that appear to include member account details and log-ins for the social networking site, which exhorts prospective users, "Life is short. Have an affair."
The Federal Communications Commission handed out another fine to a company accused of blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots. Telecom provider Smart City -- which offers Internet services to meeting centers and hotels -- was slapped with a $750,000 penalty.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is reexamining one of the key patents in the battle between Apple and Samsung. Specifically, it is claiming that design patent D618677 — essentially the front of the iPhone 3G — was not sufficiently described by Apple.
In the face of objections raised by prominent tech companies, the Motion Picture Association of America is declaring that it has already accomplished its primary mission in its lawsuit against the anonymous operators of various MovieTube websites. In a letter to the judge, MPAA members report the "defendants shut down their websites" and so they "are no longer seeking preliminary injunctive relief."
A hacker charged with helping to break into least 77,000 computers through the online hacking forum Darkode pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, prosecutors said. Eric Crocker, 39, of Binghamton, New York, was among 12 people charged in July when the international hacking forum was dismantled by U.S. authorities working with law enforcement around the world.
The U.S. Commerce Department delayed for at least a year its plans to give up oversight of a key component of Internet governance. The department said it would renew its contract with the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for one year.
The United Nations said it expects member states to respect its right to privacy and is assessing how to respond to a report that telecommunications company AT&T Inc. helped the U.S. National Security Agency spy on the world body's communications. The company gave technical assistance to the NSA in carrying out a secret court order allowing wiretapping of all Internet communications at the headquarters of the United Nations, an AT&T customer, the New York Times reported.
The IRS revealed that a criminal syndicate's massive theft of American taxpayer data was much worse than originally thought. In May, the government agency said criminals used a tool on the IRS website to steal the tax forms of 104,000 people. It has revised that number up to 220,000.
Most major U.S. wireless carriers are no longer using controversial identifiers that some researchers call “supercookies,” but their use appears to be extensive overseas. That’s the conclusion of a study by privacy group Access Now, which tested how the technology is being used around the world. Supercookies, formally known as unique identifier headers, are virtually undeletable codes that track mobile users’ browsing habits.
Young livestreaming app Periscope received nearly 1,400 copyright (DMCA) takedown requests during its first three months of existence, and Periscope owner Twitter has so far complied with 71 percent -- or about 994 -- of them.
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