When T-Mobile announced its new Binge On perk, which lets you stream video on your mobile device without it eating into any of your allotted data, advocates for an open Internet were quick to voice concerns. Now, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has weighed in, and it turns out he has no problem with Binge On. In fact, he actually supports it.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. said hackers stole customer credit-card and debit-card information during a data breach that lasted for nearly eight months and affected 54 locations, including a number of luxury properties. The company said that malicious software, known as malware, infiltrated payment systems at in-hotel restaurants and gift shops, collecting customer names, card numbers, security codes and expiration dates.
Oracle Corp. says it can’t get a fair shake from an economics professor serving as a damages expert in its billion-dollar court battle with Google over the Java platform. Oracle claims James Kearl, a Brigham Young University professor, showed himself to be partial to Google when he testified last year for Samsung Electronics Co.
A U.S. jury found Apple Inc. did not infringe five antipiracy patents owned by a Pendrell Corp. subsidiary at trial in a Texas federal court. The jury also found that Apple did not prove that the patents were invalid.
Facebook Inc. executives met with Belgian privacy regulators to offer a more detailed defense of its practice of collecting data on nonusers in the country, in the wake of a court ruling there that it must halt the practice. The Belgian Privacy Commission brought the case against Facebook in June, accusing the company of raking in personal data of users as well as nonmembers, without asking for consent or adequately explaining how the data would be used.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp will issue an alert formally notifying more than 6 million Georgia voters that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, were illegally released last month by his office. The decision to send the notification comes two days after his office was alerted to the problem by two voters who filed a class action lawsuit alleging a massive data breach. The notification is also required by state law.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton urged social media companies to help shut down the radicalization and recruitment happening online in a speech outlining her strategy for combatting the Islamic State after the Paris terror attacks. The former U.S. Secretary of State said private social media companies should assist in this effort by swiftly shutting down terrorist accounts so they cannot be used to “plan, provoke or celebrate violence.”
The hacking collective Anonymous declared digital war on the Islamic State militant group in response to last week’s attacks in Paris. The announcement struck some as odd given the group’s history of targeting Western governments and corporations, and its affinity for anarchism.
YouTube said that it would pick up the legal costs of a handful of video creators that the company thinks are the targets of unfair takedown demands. It said the creators it chose legally use third-party content under “fair use” provisions carved out for commentary, criticism, news and parody.
Facebook Inc. said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State extremist group. Anchalee, a software developer in San Francisco, posted a screenshot of a Facebook log-in page that showed a message "Account disabled"
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. face renewed calls to create a workaround for smartphone encryption in the wake of the Paris attacks as Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. proposed a compromise that seeks to mollify privacy advocates. Vance and FBI Director James Comey echoed recent comments by CIA and Justice Department officials who cite the need for access to stay a step ahead of terrorists who may use encryption to hide planned attacks.
A probe by New York State's attorney general into the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar daily fantasy sports industry has been expanded to include online media giant Yahoo Inc., a person familiar with the matter said. The move coincides with a court filing by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman seeking a temporary injunction that would shut down DraftKings and FanDuel, leaders among online companies offering paid-for daily fantasy sports contests.
UK internet service provider (ISP) Sky has warned some of its customers that they might receive a letter from a pornography company demanding payment for allegedly downloading movies illegally. The letters are reportedly from a company called Golden Eye., which previously targeted users of O2, another UK ISP.
Officials from the U.S. government's personnel agency unexpectedly refused to attend a closed-door congressional briefing on their handling of a massive computer breach that affected more than 22 million federal workers. The breach last year at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) underscored Washington's online vulnerabilities amid threats from perpetrators ranging from foreign governments to terrorist groups and various amorphous hacktivist collectives.
The operator of a major music piracy site was sentenced to three years in prison. Rocky Ouprasith, now 23, was the man behind RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com. The latter was the second-largest online file-sharing site specializing in pirated music in the United States in 2013, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot. But in interviews, Obama administration officials say the Islamic State has used a range of encryption technologies over the past year and a half, many of which defy cracking by the National Security Agency.
Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. were among U.S. companies facing questions from European Union lawmakers about their tax-reducing techniques, a month after regional antitrust regulators raised the stakes by ordering Starbucks Corp. and a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV unit to repay millions of euros in back taxes. The queries about the “Dutch Sandwich” and the “Double Irish” -- tax arrangements that allow companies to declare income in lower-tax areas -- came as the European Commission weighs its next decisions on fiscal pacts Amazon.com Inc. arranged with Luxembourg and Apple Inc. with Ireland.
New York State's top prosecutor filed for a temporary injunction that would shut down daily fantasy sports leaders DraftKings and FanDuel in the state in a latest blow to the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in legal documents filed in a Manhattan trial court that the games are illegal gambling, no different from poker or blackjack.
In a first, UFC is discouraging the press (not just the general public) from sharing unauthorized footage of a Ronda Rousey fight on the Internet, whether it's a GIF animation or a looping video. There's no official explanation, but it's easy to see the concern: the league is worried that you'll skip that pay-per-view purchase knowing that a fan site could recap everything in a tweet.
In an effort to give students additional options — and to provide schools with more concrete data — a nonprofit software start-up in San Francisco called Sexual Health Innovations has developed an online reporting system for campus sexual violence. Students at participating colleges can use its site, called Callisto, to record details of an assault anonymously.
About : Legal Services | Doug Isenberg | Cases & Clients | Firm News
Resources : YouTube Channel | Daily News | Blog | Masterclass | Domain Dispute Digest
The GigaLaw Firm helps companies of all sizes protect their brands online, using domain name dispute policies – such as the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) – and other legal tools available to copyright and trademark owners on the Internet.