A Florida couple is suing Apple for $5 million, claiming the company is misleading consumers about the data charges they’ll incur through the new Wi-Fi Assist feature that’s part of the latest mobile operating system. William and Suzanne Phillips filed suit Friday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, accusing Apple of deceptive business practices, false advertising and misrepresentation.
In 2013, Pinterest sued a much smaller company called Pintrips, whose travel-planning program monitors flight prices, saying it infringed Pinterest's trademark. After two years of litigation and a bench trial in May, Pintrips has come out on top.
Europe's top data privacy watchdog called on firms to limit transfers of Europeans' personal data to the United States, sounding a warning after a court struck down a pact between the regions over concerns about U.S. government surveillance. Yet Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, who heads a working group of 28 European data protection regulators, also sought to reassure by saying companies would have three months' grace to comply with the court decision before countries begin enforcement actions.
The chief executive of TalkTalk, a British telecommunications provider, said that she had received a ransom demand from hackers who had claimed responsibility for stealing data on some of the company’s four million customers. TalkTalk, which offers cable and fixed-line services in Britain, said local authorities had opened a criminal investigation into the widespread data breach.
Internet radio company Pandora has agreed to pay the major U.S. record labels $90 million over streaming of pre-1972 songs, which aren't covered under federal copyright but are covered by state-level copyrights in areas including New York and California. It's the second big payment that will go to the Recording Industry Association of America, which has already won a $210 million settlement with SiriusXM satellite radio over the same issue.
A long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without fear of lawsuits advanced in the U.S. Senate with strong support from members of both parties. Dozens of industry and business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, back the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), saying it would help encourage companies and the government to share information that might help thwart high-profile cyber attacks.
Bitcoin got a boost at the European Union’s top court after judges said exchanging virtual currencies should be exempt from value-added tax in the same way as traditional cash. In a ruling that puts Bitcoin on a more equal footing with mainstream money, the EU Court of Justice sided with Swede David Hedqvist who set up a service for the exchange of mainstream money for bitcoin and vice versa.
Amazon.com Inc did not violate the trademarks of a high-end watchmaker by offering alternative brands with similar styles in its search results, a federal appeals court ruled. In a rare move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed its own opinion from July and said that a lower court correctly found in Amazon.com's favor because the search results would not likely confuse customers.
The small-town lawyer who sued Facebook Inc. over his client’s claim to own the social network has filed his own defamation suit against the company and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Attorney Paul Argentieri sued in San Francisco claiming Facebook falsely accused him of fraud in a public statement about his representation of Paul Ceglia, the western New York man who fled to avoid criminal charges he faked the 2003 contract and e-mails on which he based his claim.
The New York federal prosecutor who shut down the U.S. online poker industry four years ago has now set his sights on the daily fantasy-sports business, according to people familiar with the matter. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office in the Southern District of New York is investigating whether the business model behind daily fantasy-sports firms like DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc. violates federal law, some of the people said.
Spotify’s U.S. service pulled down thousands of songs from Victory Records' catalog. The dispute between Spotify and Audiam/Victory came when Audiam identified 53 million streams from Another Victory which Spotify hadn’t made any payments on.
Apple Inc. told a federal judge that it “would be impossible” to access user data on a locked iPhone running one of the newer operating systems, but that it could likely help the government unlock an older phone. In a brief, the company said “in most cases now and in the future” it will be unable to assist the government in unlocking a password-protected iPhone.
Nearly a year after its devastating hack, Sony Pictures' settlement with former employees has been made public, offering as much as $8 million to resolve the ongoing lawsuit. According to documents, the company will commit $2 million to reimburse any expenses incurred by employees protecting themselves from identity theft in the wake of the hack.
The U.S. Senate is expected to begin considering soon a long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without concern about lawsuits. The House of Representatives passed its version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) in April.
Tech companies are still reeling from a top European court's decision invalidating Safe Harbor, a trade agreement used by thousands of American companies to transfer European's data across the Atlantic. In a new blog post, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith argues that privacy is a human right and the Safe Harbor decision is an opportunity for stronger privacy regulations.
The simple new version of Popcorn Time built for the web has moved to a new domain after having its original site shut down. The site was launched over the weekend and allows visitors to easily browse and stream pirated movies and TV shows, but its presence on the web seems to have made it a big target.
A former U.S. federal agent was sentenced to 78 months in prison for stealing bitcoins during the government's investigation of Silk Road and for 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.
Facebook will now issue alerts to users who the social network believes are being targeted by state-sponsored hackers, according to a message posted by Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer. "While we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised, we decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored," Stamos wrote.
The FBI and Secret Service are investigating reports that non-government email accounts associated with CIA Director John Brennan as well as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson were hacked. The New York Post interviewed the alleged hacker, who said he accessed an AOL account associated with Brennan that included files regarding security clearance.
Hackers associated with the Chinese government have tried to penetrate at least seven U.S. companies in the three weeks since Washington and Beijing agreed not to spy on each other for commercial reasons, according to a prominent U.S. security firm. CrowdStrike Inc. said software it placed at five U.S. technology and two pharmaceutical companies had detected and rebuffed the attacks, which began on Sept. 26.
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