Nine internet service providers (ISPs) have been sued by six film and television studios in Ireland over access to streaming websites. 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Disney and Sony are among the studios that brought the claim.
European Union institutions moved a step closer to letting consumers access their online subscriptions for services like Netflix or Sky when they travel across the bloc. The agreement between the European Parliament and Malta, which acts on behalf of all 28 EU states as the bloc's current presidency, is another step in an EU drive to knock down barriers in the single market of 500 million people.
A network of websites used by hackers and others to anonymously share information has itself been hit by a cyberattack. The attack disabled a large chunk of the so-called Dark Web, knocking thousands of websites offline, cybersecurity and privacy specialists said.
Twitter said in a blog post that it's cracking down even more on repeat abusers who make new accounts to continue trolling people who have blocked them. This "whack-a-mole" problem is a big one for Twitter, which many of its critics have brought up as a consistent weakness in the network's anti-harassment policies.
Ireland's privacy watchdog has launched a bid to refer Facebook's data transfer mechanism to the European Union's top court in a landmark case that could put the shifting of data across the Atlantic under renewed legal threat. The move is the latest challenge to the various methods by which large tech firms such as Google and Apple move personal data of EU citizens back to the United States.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to require law enforcement authorities to obtain a search warrant before seeking old emails from technology companies, a win for privacy advocates fearful the Trump administration may work to expand government surveillance powers. But the legislation was expected to encounter resistance in the Senate, where it failed to advance last year amid opposition by a handful of Republican lawmakers after the House passed it unanimously.
BT has backed Google in its competition battle with Brussels over the tech giant’s smartphone operating system, Android, in an intervention that signals the nervousness of mobile operators over the power of Apple. It is understood that BT, Britain’s biggest mobile operator following its takeover of EE, has written to the European Commission rejecting antitrust charges it has levied against Google.
Anas Modamani, a Syrian refugee whose 2015 selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel came to symbolize her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of unscreened migrants into Germany, is seeking to prevent Facebook from allowing users to repost the image after it repeatedly showed up in fake news reports. The case is one of several high-profile cases against Facebook in Germany.
A group of nearly 100 technology companies including Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are banding together to fight the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban. In a joint amicus brief filed in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the firms challenged President Donald Trump’s executive order which temporarily restricts citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.
Italian authorities have seized 50 domains which made a catalogue of newspapers and magazines available illegally. The Special Unit for Broadcasting and Publishing performed the seizure as part of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor of Rome.
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.
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