Chili's parent company, Brinker International, announced over the weekend that customers' payment information may have been exposed in a malware attack. Brinker did not disclose how many customers were affected or how hackers gained unauthorized access to its systems.
Two Democratic senators in a letter urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google has deceptively collected location data on Android users, even when such services are disabled. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) asked Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons to examine “the potential deceptive acts and practices used by Google to track and commoditize American consumers.”
Whoever had the over on DraftKings' boss Jason Robins and FanDuel chief executive Matt King being given a potential billion-dollar windfall by the Supreme Court's decision to allows sports betting should head to the cashier's cage. In a six-to-three decision (Justice Breyer was a partial dissent), Supreme Court Justices struck down a federal law that had banned gambling on sporting events in most states.
Facebook has suspended about 200 apps that had access to large amounts of user data four years ago, part of its internal investigation in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the investigation in March several days after the social network said the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and its parent company had failed to delete personal data belonging to 87 million Facebook users that it had improperly obtained.
A group of children's advocates and two lawmakers are raising questions about Amazon.com's new Echo Dot for kids, which was announced last month. The advocates led by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood that the presence of voice-activated speakers on children's nightstands is an unwelcome novelty that could prove intrusive or potentially disruptive to their development.
The White House has set up a new task force dedicated to U.S. artificial intelligence efforts, the Trump administration announced today during an event with technology executives, government leaders, and AI experts. The news and the event, which was organized by the federal government, are both moves to further the country’s AI development, as other regions like Europe and Asia ramp up AI investment and R&D as well.
A California man suspected of accessing and defacing numerous military, government and business websites, including that of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and the New York City Comptroller’s Office, was arrested on computer fraud charges. Prosecutors believe that from 2015 through March 2018, Billy Ribeiro Anderson, under the online pseudonym AlfabetoVirtual, gained unauthorized access to computers and replaced publicly available content with the words “Hacked by AlfabetoVirtual,” “#freepalestine,” “#freegaza,” or some combination of the three.
A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court takes Apple to task over an allegedly flawed keyboard design deployed in MacBook models from 2015, claiming the company knew about the defect at or before the product's launch. According to the filing, "thousands" of MacBook and MacBook Pro owners have experienced some type of failure with Apple's butterfly keyboard, thus rendering the machine useless.
A trove of thousands of Russian-backed Facebook ads, being made public for the first time, shows that Russia’s main goal was provoking discontent in the U.S., leading to and continuing beyond Donald Trump’s election in 2016. The ads, which are one of the clearest demonstrations of Russia’s financial investment in disrupting American politics, have been much discussed by Congress, Facebook and Special Counsel Robert Mueller behind closed doors.
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.
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