Germany's Federal Cartel Office has begun an investigation into Apple Inc's arrangement with Amazon for purchasing audiobooks, the competition watchdog said in a statement. It said both companies had a long-term agreement for the purchase of audio books by Apple from Amazon's Audible business for distribution via Apple's iTunes store.
The Turkish government has officially blocked access to Reddit. An official government site confirms the ban with a generic message that reads, "After technical analysis and legal consideration ... administration measure has been taken for this website."
A D.C. federal judge has ruled that FilmOn is liable for infringing the public performance rights of Fox Television and other major broadcasters and has dealt a blow to the digital streamer's argument that it is entitled to a compulsory license of programming. In the order, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer finds FilmOn X (which allowed network streams) to be an infringement of copyrights while giving FilmOn.TV (an affiliate with a library of shows and movies) and its founder Alki David a pass from liability.
DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc. filed separate lawsuits seeking to stop New York’s attorney general from banning fantasy-sports games in the state. DraftKings has retained Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, a high-powered law firm that previously has represented the National Football League and players in the National Basketball Association.
Russia's biggest search site Yandex said it had asked the European Commission to investigate Google's practices in relation to its Android mobile operating system in the European Union. The new complaint could strengthen the case against Google, possibly giving enough ammunition to EU antitrust regulators to eventually charge the company with anti-competitive business practices, on top of accusations related to its Google Shopping service.
A man from Akron, Ohio, who has supported the Islamic State online was arrested by federal authorities and charged because he allegedly "reblogged" a GIF on Tumblr that called for attacks on members of the U.S. military. Terrence J. McNeil, 25, was charged in federal court in the Northern District of Ohio with soliciting a crime of violence.
A new plan from T-Mobile USA to allow unlimited streaming of some video services may become the first test of the federal government’s rules to prevent favoritism on the Internet. T-Mobile, the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier, said customers could stream as many videos as they want — regardless of their data plan limits — from more than two dozen video providers, including Hulu and Netflix.
University of Missouri police arrested a 19-year-old student over threats made on social media, capping days of turmoil after two top school officials resigned amid protests about racial incidents on campus. Authorities arrested Hunter Michael Park, a student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla.
Facebook Inc. said content restrictions and government requests for data surged in the first half of 2015, which the social network has seen continually increase since it began publicly releasing such data two years ago. Government requests for account data globally jumped 18 percent in the first half of 2015 to 41,214 accounts, up from 35,051 requests in the second half of 2014, Facebook said in a blog post.
An Instagram client which was the most downloaded free app in Britain and Canada has been silently stealing usernames and passwords and uploading them to its developer’s server. The app, marketed as “Who Viewed Your Profile - InstaAgent”, claimed to allow users of the social network to track the people that have visited their account.
The New York State attorney general ordered the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop accepting bets from New York residents, saying their games constituted illegal gambling under state law. The cease-and-desist order by the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is a major blow to a multibillion-dollar industry that introduced sports betting to legions of young sports fans and has formed partnerships with many of the nation’s professional sports teams.
Microsoft threw down a challenge to the U.S. tech industry as it came up with a radical new regime to try to protect the data of some of its biggest European customers from U.S. government over-reach. The arrangement, which will ringfence European data with a new legal set-up designed put it beyond U.S. courts and the country’s national security establishment, in one of the most drastic corporate responses yet to the American internet spying scandal.
Google faces a fresh round of European Union questions about its Android operating system for mobile devices as regulators quizzed rivals and customers over applications for maps, e-mail and other services. The EU wants to know whether Google Maps for phones has supplanted portable or in-car navigation devices, such as those produced by TomTom NV and the HERE unit of Nokia Oyj, according to a document sent to companies and seen by Bloomberg.
A federal appeals court ruled a trade body went too far in claiming the power to prohibit foreign digital transmissions into the U.S., a victory for open-Internet advocates and a blow for copyright holders seeking to battle online piracy. At issue was how far the U.S. International Trade Commission could go to protect domestic industries from imports that infringe U.S. intellectual property.
U.S. prosecutors unveiled expanded criminal charges against three men in connection with a massive 2014 cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the hacking of several other major financial companies and financial news publishers. Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein were charged in a 23-count indictment over crimes including computer hacking, securities fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, illegal Internet gambling and conspiring to commit money laundering.
Comcast will reset the passwords of roughly 200,000 customers after their account information wound up for sale on a shadowy Web site, the company said. The package of personal data, including the e-mail addresses and passwords of Comcast customers, was listed for sale for $1,000 on a Dark Web site that was also marketing a number of other questionable goods.
Facebook said it would appeal a court ruling ordering it to stop tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages, or face a 250,000 euro ($269,000) daily fine. Belgium's data protection regulator took the U.S. company to court in June, accusing it of trampling on EU privacy law by tracking people without a Facebook account without their consent.
Ukrainians and Russians have been at the vanguard of hacking for almost as long as the Internet has been around. But now, with the government in Kiev hamstrung by a recession and a pro-Russian insurgency in the country’s industrial heartland, the number of computer attacks is skyrocketing.
European authorities have taken action to take down a cyber espionage campaign believed to be linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, the first operation of its kind since Tehran signed a nuclear treaty, according to security researchers. The hacker group -- dubbed "Rocket Kitten" by security experts who have been hunting the hacker group since early 2014 -- has mounted cyberattacks on high-profile political and military figures globally since that time, according to researchers from several cyber security firms who have monitored its activities.
Cox Communications Inc. is being fined by the The Federal Communications Commission over a data breach that affected customers, including a well-known Internet security expert. The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau says the fine is the FCC's first privacy and data security enforcement action with a cable operator.
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