A group of right-leaning organizations are urging members of Congress to reject bipartisan legislation that would require out-of-state online retailers to collect sales taxes. The groups — including the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Tax Reform and Heritage Action for America — are speaking out against a House bill called the Remote Transactions Parity Act, as well as similar measures.
Google is not obligated to ensure websites are free from defamatory content before displaying links to them in search results, Germany’s highest court ruled. The case, which comes in the context of debate about the so-called “right to be forgotten”, had been brought by two individuals seeking Google to prevent its search engine from displaying links to websites on which they were verbally attacked by other internet users.
Coinbase told its customers that it plans to comply with a court order and hand over about 13,000 customers’ data to the IRS within 21 days. The IRS made the request back in November 2016, asking for the Coinbase records of all the people who bought bitcoin from 2013 to 2015 to seek out those who were evading cryptocurrency taxes.
A full panel of a California appeals court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission may push forward with a lawsuit alleging that AT&T Inc. was deceptive in slowing internet speeds to customers with unlimited plans. The FTC sued AT&T in 2014 on the grounds that the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier failed to inform consumers it would slow, or “throttle,” the speeds of heavy data users on unlimited plans.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai defended his agency's repeal of net neutrality regulations at the mobile industry's annual conference in Barcelona, saying the lighter rules set to replace them will amount to "targeted enforcement." "Our order restoring Internet freedom merely restored the same basic framework that governed the Internet for most of its existence," said Pai, who had skipped an appearance at the large tech gathering CES in January, reportedly due to death threats.
Facebook Inc. and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg have reached a $35 million settlement of class-action litigation accusing them of hiding worries about the social media company’s growth prior to its May 2012 initial public offering. Shareholders led by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and Fresno County Employees’ Retirement Association in California accused Facebook of concealing internal concerns about how growth in mobile devices might reduce revenue, even as it quietly warned its banks to cut their forecasts.
Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to U.S. intelligence.They did so while trying to make it appear as though the intrusion was conducted by North Korea, what is known as a “false-flag” operation, said two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
When Apple Inc. begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud. That’s because of a change to how the company handles the cryptographic keys needed to unlock an iCloud account.
A major privacy rights fight between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department reaches the Supreme Court this week, with the justices considering whether U.S. law allows prosecutors to compel technology companies to hand over data stored overseas. The nine justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that pits the interests of tech companies and privacy advocates in safeguarding customer data against the demands of law enforcement in obtaining information crucial to criminal and counterterrorism investigations.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said she supports imposing fines on social media companies that do not rid their platforms of bots after the government identifies the automated accounts. “I think that would be a great idea, but then you need a Congress to act,” Klobuchar told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
A court in Bahrain sentenced a prominent democracy advocate on to five years in prison for tweets about abuses in prisons and the Saudi-led war in Yemen, continuing the crackdown that crushed the Arab Spring uprising there seven years ago. The sentencing of the advocate, Nabeel Rajab, is the latest step in a long crackdown on dissent in Bahrain, a tiny island kingdom that is home to the United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
Intel Corp. did not inform U.S. cyber security officials of the so-called Meltdown and Spectre chip security flaws until they leaked to the public, six months after Alphabet Inc. notified the chipmaker of the problems, according to letters sent by tech companies to lawmakers. Current and former U.S. government officials have raised concerns that the government was not informed of the flaws before they became public because the flaws potentially held national security implications.
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have joined the legal battle started by Mozilla Corp. and Vimeo Inc. to reverse the Federal Communications Commission repeal of net neutrality. The Obama-era prohibitions, meant to prevent broadband service providers from slowing or blocking web traffic or demanding payment for faster speed across their networks, were rescinded by the FCC in December on a 3-2 party-line vote.
France's financial regulator has said that financial products based on cryptocurrencies should be formally regulated as derivatives, meaning online trading platforms will need authorisation to offer them and can no longer advertise them online. In one of the first moves of its kind by an EU regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers said that it considered complex financial contracts that allow investors to bet on the price movements of a cryptocurrency without actually holding the underlying as, legally speaking, derivatives.
Prominent conservative Twitter users pushed back hard after a purge of their accounts that culled thousands of their followers, as the embattled social media platform faced mounting charges of left-wing bias and suppression of right-wing viewpoints. San Francisco-based Twitter said it acted to reduce the flow of fake news and abusive content by eliminating accounts suspected of being Russian-created “bots,” but conservative Twitter users, including podcast host Dan Bongino and Michael Flynn Jr., son of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, said the company is effectively targeting their right to free speech.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published updated guidance on how public companies should disclose cyber security risks and breaches. The SEC unanimously approved the additional guidance, saying it would promote "clearer and more robust disclosure" by companies facing cyber security issues, according to Chairman Jay Clayton.
North Korean cyber-spy group “Reaper” is emerging as a global threat, conducting espionage well beyond the Korean peninsula in support of Pyongyang’s military and economic interests, FireEye Inc. said. The group, known also as APT37, in 2017 began attacking targets in Japan, Vietnam and the Middle East after having focused on its southern neighbor for years, FireEye said in a report.
Twitter Inc. said it would no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts, cracking down on a tactic that Russian agents and others have allegedly used to make tweets or topics go viral. The San Francisco-based social network also said it would not allow people to use software to simultaneously perform other actions such as liking or retweeting from multiple accounts.
YouTube promoted a video claiming to show evidence that one of the survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor. The video appeared in the top position in the site's trending section before being removed from the section later in the morning after several news stories and tweets about it started to spread.
Top technology trade associations are pushing the Trump administration to fight back against an expected European Union tax proposal. Lobbying groups for major firms like Google, Amazon and Apple say the firms are worried by the expected release in the next two months of European Commission recommendations calling for taxes on unsold goods or digital advertising revenue.
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