The Motion Picture Association of America is hailing a success in the ongoing fight against piracy with word that the trade association has won the shutdown of the "official" Popcorn Time fork as well as torrent outfit YTS. In an announcement, the MPAA says that Popcorntime.io closed after a court order in Canada.
The Federal Communications Commission plans to fine Hilton Worldwide Holdings $25,000 for obstructing its investigation into whether the hotel operator blocked Wi-Fi hotspots being used by customers. In an order, the FCC said Hilton must provide information and documents to assist the investigation or it could face a "significantly higher fine."
Google owner Alphabet Inc. accused European Union regulators of making an unexplained about-face in their decision to file antitrust charges against the U.S. search giant, and warned that there was “no basis” for imposing fines, according to a redacted copy of Google’s response seen by The Wall Street Journal. The response, which runs to almost 130 pages and leans heavily on legal opinions and case law, suggests that Google is gearing up for a protracted legal battle against the charges brought by the European Commission.
Jawbone — which makes fitness trackers, speakers and Bluetooth headsets — has filed a counterclaim against Fitbit in a patent infringement case brought by the latter company against its rival in September. In the countersuit — embedded below along with Fitbit’s patent suit — Jawbone denies all Fitbit’s infringement allegations and calls the suit a “frivolous” misuse of Fitbit patents.
The United States and Britain will test later this month how its regulators would respond if their financial sectors suffered a major cyber-attack or broader IT problems, a British official said. The test, for which no date has yet been set, will focus on how regulators for the world's two biggest financial centers in New York and London communicate in an emergency, a spokesman for British government cyber-security body CERT-UK said.
Many of the same tools that repressive governments seek from Western companies are vital for social media and other communications by political protesters and grass-roots organizers throughout the world. Such dual-use technology is now at the center of a conflict between Silicon Valley and the administration over additional restraints on technology exports.
Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon has filed a class-action lawsuit against daily fantasy sports company FanDuel Inc., accusing the website of using his name and likeness to market its product without his permission. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in federal court in Maryland, comes amid scrutiny of the daily fantasy sports industry.
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.
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