Google has been dealt a blow in its ongoing battle with European regulators -- the Internet giant has lost its anti-monopoly appeal in Russia. The Moscow Arbitration court has upheld a previous ruling from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) that found Google had abused its dominant market position and broken anti-competition legislation.
President Barack Obama said that smartphones -- like the iPhone the FBI is trying to force Apple Inc. to help it hack -- can’t be allowed to be "black boxes," inaccessible to the government. The technology industry, he said, should work with the government instead of leaving the issue to Congress.
North Korea denied that it conducted cyber attacks against officials from rival South Korea, calling the South's accusation that it did so a "fabrication." South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers that North Korea had recently stepped up cyber attack efforts against the South and succeeded in hacking the mobile phones of 40 national security officials, according to members of parliament who received a closed-door briefing.
Facebook receives more than one million reports of violations from users every day, according to Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of policy management. Bickert spoke to the fine (and imperfect) line between free speech and hate speech at SXSW's first Online Harassment Summit.
While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another technology company, WhatsApp, over access to its popular instant messaging application, officials and others involved in the case said. No decision has been made, but a court fight with WhatsApp, the world’s largest mobile messaging service, would open a new front in the Obama administration’s dispute with Silicon Valley over encryption, security and privacy.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has submitted a plan for ending U.S. oversight of key technical Internet functions in favor of a global multi-stakeholder governance model. The complex new proposals aim to create an oversight body called the "empowered community" for enforcing community powers and include tighter rules for changes to certain bylaws of the organization.
General Motors Co. highlighted a “coordinated disclosure” program it launched earlier this year that invites computer researchers to search for cybersecurity gaps in GM vehicles, websites and software. The effort is an offshoot of so-called bug bounty programs run by companies, including Silicon Valley electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc., that pay researchers to spot software vulnerabilities before outside hackers exploit them.
The Obama administration is planning to publicly blame Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyber attack against a small dam in New York state, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against the hackers, two of the sources said, and a public announcement could come as soon as next week.
The Federal Communications Commission announced draft privacy rules that would govern how broadband Internet service providers can use and share customer data. The rules proposed Thursday would bar the companies from using customers' data for many purposes without their explicit permission.
The Justice Department filed its latest response to Apple in the fight over iPhone encryption, calling the tech giant's rhetoric in the San Bernardino, California, case "false" and "corrosive" of institutions that safeguard rights. The debate surrounds whether Apple should comply with a court order to help authorities unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last year's San Bernardino attack, which left 14 people dead.
Car-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. won a loosening of France’s strict transport rules when a court overturned a decree banning car services from showing the locations of available vehicles, a well-known feature of Uber’s app. France’s Conseil d’Etat, the country’s highest administrative court, struck down the part of a government decree that banned the showing of locations of available cars.
As the FBI and Apple continue to fight in court over whether the tech giant should help unlock a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Americans about evenly divided, with a slightly greater number backing the iThing maker. Forty-seven percent of respondents said that Apple should not cooperate with a Justice Department request to build a piece of software that would bypass security features on Syed Farook's iPhone 5C. Forty-two percent of those interviewed said Apple should cooperate with the request in the ongoing case.
A German court has ruled against an online shopping site's use of Facebook's "like" button, dealing a further legal blow to the world's biggest social network in Germany. The Duesseldorf district court said that retailer Peek & Cloppenburg failed to obtain proper consent before transmitting its users' computer identities to Facebook, violating Germany's data protection law and giving the retailer a commercial advantage.
The Federal Communications Commission circulated a final proposal to members to approve a broadband subsidy of $9.25 a month for low-income households, in the government’s boldest effort to date to narrow a technological divide that has emerged between those who have web access and those who do not. The new plan is part of an overhaul of a $2 billion phone subsidy program called Lifeline and will go to vote on March 31.
Home Depot agreed to pay at least $19.5 million to compensate U.S. consumers harmed by a 2014 data breach affecting more than 50 million cardholders. The home improvement retailer will set up a $13 million fund to reimburse shoppers for out-of-pocket losses, and spend at least $6.5 million to fund 1-1/2 years of cardholder identity protection services.
The Federal Communications Commission said that it has reached a settlement with Verizon Wireless over that company’s use of permanent identifiers, known as “supercookies,” that it uses to deliver targeted advertising on mobile devices. Under the terms of the deal, Verizon will pay a $1.35 million fine and inform its customers about its use of the identifiers and require their consent before sharing that cookie with third parties.
Apple Inc. customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers with Palo Alto Networks Inc. told Reuters.
Google reported that over the past month it received more than 76 million requests to remove from search results URLs that point to content that allegedly infringes copyright. That's more than double the number of requests it received in the same period last year, or around 34 million, according to the search giant's updated transparency report.
Virginia signed into law the "Fantasy Contests Act," a bill outlining how daily fantasy sport sites like DraftKings and FanDuel can operate legally in the state. The law is the nation's first formal recognition of the industry after months of heated legal activity in multiple states.
Apple Inc. must pay $450 million to end an antitrust suit after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a finding that the company orchestrated a scheme to raise the prices for electronic books. The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal by Apple, leaving intact a federal appeals court ruling favoring the U.S. Justice Department and more than 30 states that sued.
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