A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diverging from a federal appeals court that reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft Corp. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rueter in Philadelphia ruled that transferring emails from a foreign server so FBI agents could review them locally as part of a domestic fraud probe did not qualify as a seizure.
Under recently departed chairman Tom Wheeler, the FCC opened inquiries into how companies might be using free data programs to anti-competitively favor certain streaming music and video services. But a new, President-Trump-appointed chairman recently took over at the FCC, and according to letters just posted by the agency, the inquiries have been dropped.
InterContinental Hotels Group said that a malware in the servers at 12 of its hotels in the United States tracked payment card data if the card was used at the hotels' restaurants and bars between August and December last year. The company said that the malware searched for track data -- the cardholder's name, card number, expiration date, and the verification code -- read from the magnetic stripe of a card as it was being routed through the affected server.
The extent of the impact of President Donald Trump's immigration executive order on startups is still unclear, but more than 15 venture capitalists and technology company founders described immediate concerns about the consequences of the travel ban. More than half of all "unicorns" -- or startups valued at $1 billion or more -- have at least one immigrant founder, according to a 2016 study by the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan think tank based in Arlington, Virginia.
Apple deliberately disabled the FaceTime video-calling feature for millions of users in order to save money, a lawsuit filed Feb. 2 by a Marin County woman claimed. “Internal Apple emails eliminate any doubt that Apple intentionally broke FaceTime,” said the lawsuit by Christina Grace, who is seeking class-action status.
Microsoft Corp. said it proposed a program to U.S. President Donald Trump's administration allowing people from seven predominantly Muslim nations to enter and leave the United States on business or family emergency travel if they hold valid work or student visas and have not committed any crimes. In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Microsoft President Brad Smith outlined a program for case-by-case review of exceptions to a travel ban.
In the 12 days since Donald Trump took the oath of office, a steady stream of social media posts have called for the new president's assassination. The U.S. Secret Service, however, or even Twitter and Facebook themselves, doesn't seem to be jumping onto many of these posts.
EU antitrust regulators opened three investigations into 15 companies suspected of restricting online sales of electronics, video games and hotel rooms to deny consumers choice and prevent them from buying at the lowest prices. The EU aims to boost online cross-border sales and stop "geo-blocking" -- restricting offers based on a customer's location -- which runs counter to its goal of a single market for digital goods and services that would underpin economic growth.
The IRS and state tax authorities have issued a new alert to HR and payroll departments to beware of phony emails intended to capture personal information of employees. The emails generally appear to be from a senior executive (typically the CEO or CFO) to a company payroll office or HR employee and request a PDF or list of employee W-2 forms for the tax year.
A U.S. jury in Texas on ordered Facebook Inc, its virtual reality unit Oculus, and other defendants to pay a combined $500 million to ZeniMax Media Inc, a video game publisher that says Oculus stole its technology. The jury in federal court in Dallas found Oculus, which Facebook acquired for about $2 billion in 2014, used ZeniMax’s computer code to launch the Rift virtual-reality headset.
Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a case brought by a man found guilty years ago of child-pornography charges who wanted articles about his arrest removed from Google searches. The ruling didn’t directly address the “right to be forgotten,” which was established in the European Union by the EU’s top court in a 2014 ruling, but it did offer some of the Japanese high court’s first views on what standards should apply when people want Google and other search engines to scrub references to past wrongdoing.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against Charter and its Time Warner Cable subsidiary, claiming that the Internet provider "allegedly conduct[ed] a deliberate scheme to defraud and mislead New Yorkers by promising Internet service that they knew they could not deliver." State officials said they conducted a 16-month investigation that reviewed internal corporate communications "and hundreds of thousands of subscriber speed tests," concluding that Spectrum-TWC customers were "dramatically short-changed on both speed and reliability," the attorney general's announcement said.
President Trump scrapped plans to sign an executive action launching a government-wide cybersecurity overhaul. The White House did not immediately provide an explanation for the cancellation.
Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said the Seattle-based company is prepared to support a lawsuit being brought by Washington state's attorney general against President Trump and the administration over Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees. The Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos, reported that Bezos wrote in an internal email to Amazon employees Monday that company lawyers have prepared a "declaration of support" for the suit.
Spanish police have arrested three people over a data breach linked to a series of dramatic intrusions at European spy software companies — feeding speculation that the net has closed on an online Robin Hood figure known as Phineas Fisher. A spokesman with Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalonia's regional police, said two men and a woman were arrested in Salamanca and Barcelona on suspicion of breaking into the website of the Mossos labor union in May, hijacking its Twitter feed and leaking the personal data of more than 5,500 officers.
Several state bar associations are concerned that Apple MacBook Pro's Touch Bar software may actually be used by would-be lawyers to cheat on their bar exams. Bar associations in California, New York, and Colorado will ban MacBook Pro's with Touch Bar..
New York’s highest court will weigh whether Facebook Inc. can legally challenge search warrants issued for the accounts of its users, a case that has been closely watched for its ramifications on law enforcement and digital privacy in the state. The Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Feb. 7 in a lawsuit brought by Facebook against the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
Microsoft Corp. said it has been cooperating with the Washington State Attorney General's Office, which is suing in federal court to stop President Donald Trump's order restricting immigration from several Muslim countries.
President Donald Trump's administration has drafted an executive order aimed at overhauling the work-visa programs technology companies depend on to hire tens of thousands of employees each year. If implemented, the reforms could shift the way American companies like Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. recruit talent and force wholesale changes at Indian companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Wipro Ltd.
Terrorists, political protesters and narcissistic criminals have long carried out crimes designed to further their agenda or demonstrate their own perceived cleverness, power or bravado. What’s new is the access people have to tools, via the smartphone, that allow for the creation, publication and distribution of content at the touch of a button -- through photos, tweets, status updates, videos and now live streaming.
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