China’s ZTE Corp. has submitted an application to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) for the suspension of a business ban, it said in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange. Washington imposed a seven-year ban on U.S. companies selling components and software to ZTE last month after finding that the Chinese telecoms company breached U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Google is releasing an update for Gmail which will give users the option to erase emails that they've sent. But this "self-destruct" feature is cause for concern for a government transparency group, which warns of "unintended consequences" that might run afoul of public records laws.
The Pentagon’s cyber warfare unit received an elevated status and a new commander, signaling the growing importance of digital combat as the United States grapples with sophisticated hacking by Russia, China and other actors. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone took over leadership of U.S. Cyber Command at a ceremony at this base 30 miles north of Washington that featured both traditional military pomp and signs of the new age of warfare.
Cambridge Analytica has been ordered to hand over all the data and personal information it has on an American voter, including details of where it got the data and what it did with it, or face a criminal prosecution. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) served the enforcement notice to the company on Friday in a landmark legal decision that opens the way for up to 240 million other American voters to request their data back from the firm under British data protection laws.
Altright.com, the infamous website founded by white nationalist Richard Spencer, is no longer accessible after it was taken down by its host, GoDaddy. In a statement provided to BuzzFeed News, a spokesperson for GoDaddy said that Spencer was given 48 hours to transfer the Altright.com domain to a different host before it was removed.
Germany’s justice minister has asked Facebook Chief Executive in a letter to be transparent with users by giving them more control, saying allegations of the improper use of data for millions of people is unacceptable, a German media group reported. Media group RND said in her letter, Katarina Barley also called on Facebook to strictly implement privacy by default settings and to set up an internal mechanism to protect users from misuse by third parties like Cambridge Analytica.
Twitter Inc. urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch exposed some in plain text on its internal computer network. The social network said an internal investigation had found no indication passwords were stolen or misused by insiders, but that it urged all users to consider changing their passwords “out of an abundance of caution.”
Delta Air Lines’ lawsuit against an alleged “fraudulent” ticket platform has been settled, prompting the discontinuance of the case. District Judge Alison Nathan ordered the discontinuation without costs to any party at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, May 1.
Facebook has fired a security engineer after he was accused of stalking women online possibly by abusing his “privileged access” to data, raising renewed concerns about users’ privacy at the social network. The controversy, which came to light after the employee allegedly called himself a “professional stalker” in a message to a woman he met on Tinder, is particularly bad timing for Facebook, which announced that it is launching an online dating feature while it continues to battle a major privacy scandal in the US and the UK.
Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU users’ data to the United States. The case is the latest to question whether methods used by technology firms such as Google and Apple to transfer data outside the 28-nation European Union give EU consumers sufficient protection from U.S. surveillance.
Cambridge Analytica , a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, is shutting down following disclosures about its use of Facebook data and the campaign tactics it pitched to clients.In March, the company suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, and said it was launching an independent investigation to determine if the company engaged in any wrongdoing in its work on political campaigns.
Twitter Inc. said it sold data to the Cambridge University academic who had separately shared user data he gleaned from Facebook Inc. with third parties including the controversial research firm Cambridge Analytica. The disclosure adds more detail about the activities of Cambridge University psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan, though in this instance there are no allegations that user privacy was compromised.
Instagram unveiled an update aimed at filtering out bullying comments on its platform. The new feature is an expansion of Instagram's offensive comment filter, which automatically parses out and removes abusive and toxic speech.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said it will investigate certain gaming console systems from Nintendo Co. Ltd. after California-based Gamevice Inc filed a complaint alleging that their importation infringed on its patents.
A U.S. judge rejected Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd’s bid for a preliminary injunction to block the Dubai cryptocurrency firm Alibabacoin Foundation from using the Alibaba name. U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan said Alibaba did not show he had jurisdiction, having failed to establish a “reasonable probability” that Alibabacoin’s interactive websites were used to transact business with customers in New York.
Iran moved to shut down the messaging app Telegram, highlighting the regime’s concern over the popular platform’s role in organizing widespread unrest that has rippled through the country in recent months. Using the app was prohibited under a ruling by a Tehran-based court, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
One of the Internet's most notorious revenge porn websites has been shut down after a year-long investigation by Dutch police Politie. Police in the Netherlands announced that they seized Anon-IB's server and discovered that hundreds of women were targeted by hackers on the website.
A Malaysian court has convicted a Danish citizen over inaccurate criticism of police on social media, the first person to be prosecuted under a new law against fake news. Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman, 46, was charged with spreading false news after he posted a video on YouTube accusing police of taking 50 minutes to respond to distress calls after the shooting of a Palestinian lecturer on 21 April.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Google’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that narrowed the scope of patents that can be challenged before a federal tribunal whose proceedings have led to the cancellation of many patents. The justices let stand a 2016 federal appeals court ruling against Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, which had successfully challenged at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office a patent it was accused of violating.
The U.S. Supreme Court will use a privacy case involving Google to consider making it harder for companies to settle class-action lawsuits without providing direct compensation to those affected. The justices agreed to hear arguments from two people who object to the Alphabet Inc. unit’s $8.5 million settlement of claims that it improperly disclosed users’ internet search terms to the owners of outside websites.
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