Records posted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation following a freedom of information lawsuit filed last year reveal that FBI agents would pay Geek Squad managers who pass on information about illegal materials on devices sent in by customers for repairs. The relationship goes back at least ten years, according to documents released as a result of the lawsuit.
BlackBerry is suing Facebook for patent infringement, alleging many of the features of Facebook's messaging services infringe on BlackBerry patents, the company said. "[W]e have a strong claim that Facebook has infringed on our intellectual property, and after several years of dialogue, we also have an obligation to our shareholders to pursue appropriate legal remedies," BlackBerry said in a release.
President Donald Trump will be meeting with members of the video game industry to discuss gun violence and school shootings, according to White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The Entertainment Software Association, which said last week it hadn't been contacted by the White House, confirmed today that it will be attending the meeting which it says will provide the "opportunity to have a fact-based conversation about video game ratings, our industry’s commitment to parents, and the tools we provide to make informed entertainment choices."
Washington became the first state in the country to pass its own net neutrality law in the wake of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) repeal of the popular Obama-era rules. Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed a bill forbidding internet service providers from blocking or throttling web content, or from charging websites for higher delivery speeds.
Rhode Island's state legislature could soon vote on a bill that would impose a $20 fee on residents accessing pornography online. The legislation, which two Democratic state senators introduced in the General Assembly, would require internet service providers to digitally block sexual content or “patently offensive material.”
Congressional investigators probing Russian interference around the 2016 U.S. presidential election plan to question Reddit and Tumblr over new reports that the Kremlin may have helped spread disinformation on their sites, as lawmakers continue to explore the ways in which Russia weaponized social media.Staffers for lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a briefing with Tumblr soon, and they’re seeking more information from Reddit after it acknowledged it shuttered hundreds of suspicious accounts in 2015 and 2016, according to a person close to the panel who was not authorized to speak publicly.
In a rare intervention by the government, the Trump administration moved to stall the potential takeover of Qualcomm, the leading American chip maker, by Singapore-based Broadcom on national security grounds. The action, by a little-known and secretive government panel, represents a newly aggressive posture by the administration to protect national corporate champions and scrutinize acquisitions by overseas companies.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit against Uber after the San Francisco-based ride-sharing company took more than 12 months to inform users that it suffered a major hack. "Uber violated Pennsylvania law by failing to put our residents on timely notice of this massive data breach," Shapiro said in a press release.
The European Union this month will unveil plans to tax large global tech companies’ revenue at a rate in the 2-to-6-percent range, though more likely closer to 2 than to 6 percent, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in a newspaper interview. “ The proposal aims at increasing the tax bill of firms like Amazon.com, Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, which are accused by large EU states of paying too little by rerouting their EU profits to low-tax countries such as Luxembourg and Ireland.
For years, China has exerted digital control with a system of internet filters known as the Great Firewall, which allows authorities to limit what people see online. To broaden its censorship efforts, Beijing is venturing outside the Great Firewall and paying more attention to what its citizens are saying on non-Chinese apps and services.
Facebook’s leaders for months appeared oblivious to deepening public concern about its social impact and Washington’s increasing agitation about Russia's role in influencing the 2016 election, especially from the left, a problem that has worsened a public backlash against it and other Silicon Valley behemoths. That misjudgment appears to have contributed to its halting response to the Russian manipulation.
Tech giants, under more pressure than ever to police content on their platforms, are facing sweeping guidelines announced by European regulators. Most notably, the European Commission is asking Facebook, Google and Twitter to remove illegal or terrorist content within an hour of being notified about its presence.
Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Cyber Command, said on he did not think Russia, China and other countries expected much of a response from the United States to cyber attacks. “We seem to be the cyber punching bag of the world,” Sullivan said during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
President Donald Trump will meet with executives from the video game industry to talk about gun violence, the White House announced. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the press briefing that the meeting will be in the context of issues of violence and school safety, and the executives will offer their input “to see what they can do on that front.”
WhatsApp has still not brought forward proposals to address EU regulators’ concerns over the messaging service’s sharing of user data with parent company Facebook, Facebook’s European regulator said. The popular messaging service changed its privacy policy over a year ago to start sharing users’ phone numbers and other information with Facebook.
Google should be hit with further sanctions because last year’s £2.1bn EU fine has done nothing to improve competition, the search giant’s opponents have claimed. Nineteen companies and organisations, several of which launched the complaints that led to last year’s record antitrust penalty, have signed an open letter to Europe’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued dozens of subpoenas and information requests to technology companies and advisers involved in the red-hot market for cryptocurrencies, according to people familiar with the matter. The sweeping probe significantly ratchets up the regulatory pressure on the multibillion-dollar U.S. market for raising funds in cryptocurrencies.
Discord has recently shut down several notable alt-right, white nationalist servers as it attempts to purge toxic content, as reported by Polygon. The affected servers include the neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division, Nordic Resistance Movement, Iron March, and European Domas.
The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with Venmo, after allegations that the app misled customers and enabled fraud through lax security practices. Charges were first brought against Venmo in 2016 after reports of account hacks and other transaction fraud.
Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical about Microsoft's refusal to turn over emails sought by U.S. law enforcement agents with a criminal search warrant but stored by the software giant in overseas servers. The case of the United States vs. Microsoft has been hailed by some as a major test of privacy in a world where electronic traffic is stored in a digital cloud.
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