Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. settled a seven-year patent dispute over Apple’s allegations that Samsung violated its patents by “slavishly” copying the design of the iPhone. Terms of the settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, were not available.
After a yearlong sting operation, U.S. law enforcement officials have arrested 35 people suspected of selling "illicit goods" on the darknet, the Justice Department said. The operation, which included the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Postal Inspection Service, was the nation's "first nationwide undercover operation targeting darknet vendors," the Justice Department said in a statement.
The French State has emerged victorious in a dispute over ‘France.com’ after the EU General Court rejected a U.S. company’s claim to the trademark. The dispute dates back to August 2014, when Jean-Noël Frydman applied for the figurative EU trademark ‘France.com’, with the words appearing next to an image depicting the French flag and the Eiffel Tower.
The Supreme Court’s 5-to−4 decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban shed critical light on an increasingly important question to civil society: What is the legal value of a presidential tweet? Trump’s tweets on the travel ban played a key role in the case as opponents sought to cast the White House policy as anti-Muslim.
Facebook Inc. decided to allow certain ads promoting cryptocurrency and related content from pre-approved advertisers, but would continue its ban on those tied to binary options and initial coin offerings. Facebook had in January banned ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.
Eight of the tech industry’s most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials last month to discuss preparations for this year’s midterm elections. The meeting, which took place May 23 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., was also attended by representatives from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oath, Snap and Twitter, according to three attendees of the meeting who spoke on condition of anonymity because of its sensitive nature.
Twitter Inc. said it’s making changes to combat abuse and malicious automated accounts, including requiring more authentication for new users, in an effort to address complaints that social networking services have allowed harassment and manipulation to run rampant. The company, which promotes itself as a place for public conversation over news and events, has long been criticized for making it too easy for malicious actors to create multiple spam accounts.
Venezuela has blocked all access to the Tor network, according to an Access Now report citing activists within the country. Coming just months after a new round of web blocks within the country, the latest block includes both direct connections to the network and connections over bridge relays, which had escaped many previous Tor blocks.
Facebook Inc. said private data about its European users may not have fallen into the hands of Cambridge Analytica after all, as the social network continues to fend off criticism about a scandal that sparked global outrage. “The best information we have suggests that no European user data was shared by Dr. [Aleksandr] Kogan with Cambridge Analytica,” Stephen Satterfield, a privacy policy director at Facebook, told European Union lawmakers at a hearing.
The European Commission has signed an agreement with four major online retailers to combat the listing of dangerous products on Europe’s online shopping sites. Dangerous content, as defined by the Commission, includes anything from incitement to hatred and violence to child sexual abuse material, unsafe products and products infringing copyright.
As word spread that President Donald Trump’s administration was separating immigrant children from their asylum-seeking parents, Atlanta attorney Loren Collins decided the policy should become the president’s “well-deserved legacy.” TrumpHotels.org displays a banner photo of immigrants detained in chain-link cages. It includes “thoughts from our manager”—Trump’s own words about what the website bills as “our services and our clientele.”
In an attempt to spot vulnerabilities in its system before bad actors exploit them, Facebook has hired a team of ex-intelligence officers, researchers, and media buyers, and set them loose on its products. Facebook calls this group the "Investigative Operations Team" and has directed its members to find the worst possible things that can be done using Facebook, and to help the company prevent them.
Tumblr has agreed to better monitor the spread of illegal adult content on the South Korean version of its website, the local Internet content watchdog has said. The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) said the U.S. company has promised to actively cooperate with the commission.
Internet-connected locks, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras that have been marketed as the newest conveniences are now also being used as a means for harassment, monitoring, revenge and control. In more than 30 interviews with The New York Times, domestic abuse victims, their lawyers, shelter workers and emergency responders described how the technology was becoming an alarming new tool.
Amazon is utilizing its knowledge of its powerful marketplace machine -- from optimizing word-search algorithms to analyzing competitors’ sales data to using its customer-review networks -- to steer shoppers toward its in-house brands and away from its competitors, say analysts. As Amazon uses its powerful platform to bolster its private-label business, there is also debate in legal circles whether some of its activities could be viewed as monopolistic in nature.
The Supreme Court put new restraints on law enforcement’s access to the ever-increasing amount of private information about Americans available in the digital age. In the specific case before the court, the justices ruled that authorities generally must obtain a warrant to gain access to cell-tower records that can provide a virtual timeline and map of a person’s whereabouts.
The ACLU released its guide to developers on how to respond to government demands when the requests require companies to compromise their own security. The ACLU anticipates a new threat from government requests: potentially forcing developers to install software updates with hidden surveillance tools, whether for tracking a phone's location or bypassing encryption and passcodes.
Google rolled out new Google Account features for Android users designed to bolster security and make it easier for users to manage their privacy settings. The new settings build on the “Security Checkup” introduced last fall by offering personalized recommendations designed to help users improve the security of their accounts; for example, users could be reminded to remove unverified applications allowed to access their account data.
A divided Supreme Court ruled that states may require online retailers to collect billions of dollars of sales tax revenue owed to them. More than 40 states and the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1992 decision in Quill v. North Dakota that restricts states from collecting sales tax from retailers without a physical presence in those states, saying that a decision in a case involving mail-order catalogs is obsolete in an era of e-commerce.
Tesla Inc. has sued a former employee claiming that he hacked the electric carmaker’s trade secrets and transferred large amounts of company data to third parties, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Nevada. In its lawsuit Tesla claimed that Martin Tripp, who formerly worked at the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada, had admitted to writing software that hacked the carmaker’s manufacturing operating system, transferring several gigabytes of its data to third parties and making false claims to the media.
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