British police said they had arrested a second teenager in connection with a cyber attack on broadband provider TalkTalk. London's Metropolitan Police said the 16-year old boy had been arrested at an address in west London on Thursday and was later released on bail.
Apple Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court decision that found the iPad maker conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices. Apple asked the high court to review a June ruling that favored the U.S. Department of Justice, and found the company liable for engaging in a conspiracy that violated federal antitrust laws.
Of all the Republican presidential debates so far, Wednesday night's event on CNBC had the most mentions of tech policy issues -- ranging from the sharing economy to net neutrality. Read the article: The Washington Post
The U.S. Defense Department is sending career personnel on tours with private cybersecurity companies and bringing in specialists from those companies to gain the skills necessary to defend military networks from hackers, the Pentagon’s chief information officer said. The department, for example, brought in a specialist in computer server routing technology from Cisco Systems Inc., Terry Halvorsen said.
A new transatlantic data-sharing agreement is within reach after the "Safe Harbour" deal used by thousands of companies to comply with EU privacy law was struck down by the highest EU court this month, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said. The so-called "Safe Harbour 2.0" agreement currently being negotiated would meet European concerns about the transfer of data to the United States, Pritzker told journalists in Frankfurt during a visit to Germany.
Amazon.com Inc., which has quickly built a network of on-demand workers for its one-hour delivery service, now faces a lawsuit over how those workers are treated. The suit, filed in Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court on behalf of four couriers, seeks back wages and compensation for expenses like fuel and workers’ compensation insurance.
Daily fantasy-sports companies, at the center of legal and regulatory debate about whether their games are gambling, have agreed to the formation of a self-regulatory body led by former acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Seth Harris. The organization, called the Fantasy Sports Control Agency, will be charged with creating a system to ensure ethics and integrity across the fantasy industry as a whole.
The German government has unexpectedly announced plans to investigate Google and Facebook for illegal data transfers. This decision means serious headaches for the two American tech giants, as well as hundreds of other tech companies that also operate in Germany.
Marks & Spencer has apologized for a data breach that forced it to suspend its website for two hours after customers were able to view other people’s personal details when logging into their accounts online. The retailer blamed a technical issue, which affected 800 customers, and said it acted quickly to resolve the problem.
The Senate passed a cybersecurity bill to encourage companies to share more information about computer attacks after lawmakers made changes to address privacy objections from high-tech firms and advocacy groups. The final vote on the legislation, known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, was 74 to 21.
German publishers and Google have failed to resolve a row over whether or not the Web search leader should pay the publishers to display their articles online, raising the prospect of a lengthy court battle. The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) said arbitration proceedings between the publishers and Google had failed as they both objected to a settlement proposal put forward by the body's arbitration board.
House lawmakers continued a months-long tussle over the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) new net neutrality regulations in a hearing that probed the rules' impact on investments. Republicans, who fiercely oppose the regulations, invited a slate of economists to testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee on the potential harm the rules will have on infrastructure investment from Internet service providers (ISPs) such as AT&T and Comcast.
The U.S. Library of Congress issued a set of exemptions to an infamous provision in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), establishing a victory for consumers who like to tinker with devices without running afoul of copyright law. The exemptions were far-reaching, extending from movie and television files used in an educational context for criticism to installing third-party software — in other words jailbreaking — tablets and smart TVs.
The European Parliament has passed controversial net neutrality legislation that could lead to a two-tier Internet. The new legislation was originally designed to ensure an open and level-playing field to “protect the right of every European to access Internet content, without discrimination.”
The European Union said it had agreed in principle with the U.S. on a new trans-Atlantic data-transfer pact, as both sides race to complete the deal after the bloc’s highest court junked a previous framework used by thousands of firms. The European Court of Justice this month invalidated a 15-year old agreement, known as Safe Harbor, which allowed businesses to move Europeans’ data, such as payroll information, to servers in the U.S.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the TalkTalk hacking attack, Scotland Yard has said. The boy was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences.
A U.S. judge expressed strong doubts that he had the legal authority to order Apple Inc. to access data on a locked iPhone that was seized as part of a federal investigation. "What you're asking them to do is do work for you," U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein told government attorneys at a hearing in Brooklyn federal court.
European Union regulators will actively pursue Google parent Alphabet Inc. on multiple fronts ranging from its contracts with advertisers to its Android mobile-operating system, the bloc’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said, in the clearest sign yet that the U.S. search giant is likely to face fresh competition charges in Brussels. A year after taking office as Europe’s most powerful regulator, Ms. Vestager has moved decisively on a number of major cases that had languished under her predecessor, Joaquín Almunia of Spain.
The New York attorney general is probing whether three major Internet providers could be short-changing consumers by charging them for faster broadband speeds and failing to deliver the speeds being advertised, according to documents seen by Reuters. The letters, which were sent to executives at Verizon Communications Inc, Cablevision Systems Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc, ask each company to provide copies of all the disclosures they have made to customers, as well as copies of any testing they may have done to study their Internet speeds.
Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict. The ultimate Russian hack on the United States could involve severing the fiber-optic cables at some of their hardest-to-access locations to halt the instant communications on which the West’s governments, economies and citizens have grown dependent.
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