Apple and Samsung will meet in a San Jose, California, court for a week to determine how much Samsung owes for illegally using three Apple design patents and two utility patents. The lawsuit, initially filed in 2011, made it all the way to the Supreme Court in late 2016 before being sent back to the lower court. This will be the third district court trial for the case.
Spotify is removing R. Kelly's music from its algorithmic and curated playlists under its new hate content and hateful conduct policy. The music-streaming service told Billboard that, in addition to removing Kelly's songs from Spotify-operated playlists, it would no longer promote the R&B artist's music.
Landmark U.S. “net neutrality” rules will expire on June 11, and new rules handing providers broad new power over how consumers can access the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission said in setting the date. The FCC in December repealed the Obama-era open-Internet rules set in 2015, which bars providers from blocking or slowing down access to content or charging consumers more for certain content.
President Trump announced that he would unilaterally withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration in 2015, and impose new sanctions against the country within 90 days. For those who have followed the last decade of digital conflicts around the globe, the unraveling of the Iran deal reignites not only the country's nuclear threat, but also the threat of its highly aggressive hackers — now with years more development and training that have only honed their offensive tactics.
A bill passed by Georgia's legislature that would have criminalized unauthorized access of computer systems and allowed companies to "hack back" in defense against breaches was vetoed by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal. The veto came after many weeks of opposition from information security firms and professionals, as well as major technology companies — including Google and Microsoft executives, who expressed concern that the bill would actually make it more difficult to secure computer systems.
The U.S. Senate is set to vote in the coming week on rejecting the Federal Communications Commission decision in December to repeal Obama-era rules guaranteeing an open Internet. Proponents currently have the backing of 47 Democrats and two independents who caucus with Democrats as well as Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Credit reporting agency Equifax recently sent more details to Congress about its massive data breach last year, which impacted over 145 million Americans. The statement, which breaks down the numbers of U.S. consumers who had specific types of personal information stolen, comes eight months after Equifax first disclosed that hackers had breached its system — a revelation that spurred intense scrutiny in and outside Washington.
With a contentious May 25 referendum on Ireland’s abortion ban approaching, Facebook said that it would block political advertising from groups based outside the country. The company also recently introduced a tool so users can see all the ads a group is posting on the social network, in a bid to increase transparency of political campaigning on its platform.
Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been billed as the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws since the birth of the web. There’s one problem: many of the regulators who will police it say they aren’t ready yet.
Google announced that it would no longer allow bail bond companies to buy advertisements on its ad platforms. The company explained its decision was based on research showing that “for-profit bail bond providers make most of their revenue from communities of color and low-income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable.”
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are preparing to release 3,000 Russia-linked Facebook ads, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would offer the broadest picture yet of how the social network was manipulated during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The cache will show the images of the ads, which groups the ads targeted, how much they cost and how many Facebook users viewed them, the people said.
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.
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