Four British members of the Lulzsec group have received lengthy jail terms for hacking offenses. One member was sent down for 32 months, thought to be the longest such sentence for hacking in the UK.
It wasn’t even close. It was in the political realm a safe, bipartisan, landslide victory. On Monday night the United States Senate approved S.743, also known as the Marketplace Fairness Act, with 69 Senators voting for, and a paltry 27 voting against. The bill, which would allow states to collect sales taxes from online businesses outside of their borders, now moves to the House of Representatives for a vote.
Twitter is one of only two companies to get full marks for protecting customer privacy from law enforcement agencies in a new report. The Electronic Frontier Foundation ranked MySpace and Verizon bottom, closely followed by Apple and Yahoo.
Craigslist has lost a court bid to stop other companies running services based around its posts. A court dismissed sections of its terms of service that claimed full copyright over all posting on the site.
Google has agreed to change the way it presents search results for some type of queries following pressure from the European Union. But rival Internet firms have already said the changes don’t go far enough.
Huong ‘Junie’ Hoang is 41 years old. That’s a fact and now a jury has agreed that sites such as the Internet Move Database have the right to say so.
Just weeks before he is set to leave office, Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski has warned that broadcasters need to cooperate with the government over plans to free up spectrum for mobile broadband. It looks as if that issue will be top priority for his successor.
Google’s rivals have complained to European regulators that Google is acting anti-competitively by not charging for the Android operating system. They’ve implied that the free software is an attempt to unfairly control consumer data.
The new bracelet is considered to be a “personal alarm” for human rights activists in dangerous parts of the world. It can be activated by either pulling on it or pulling it off violently. Once activated it sends a signal that can get help to the person in trouble.
A Californian politician is calling for a state law that would give citizens the right to force companies to reveal any personal data the firm stores about them. The idea is based on a European rule that’s already been used to embarrass Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg is taking a bi-partisan approach when it comes to influencing national politics. Facebook’s founder, as Politico reports, has hired lobbyists from two lobbying firms: one Republican, the other Democratic in order to push Washington D.C. policymakers on education and immigration reform.
Google Glass is nearing launch, with the first units expected to go on sale in 2014. Which means it’s high time to legislate against the device. Thankfully, the proposed law is actually rather sensible.
The Web has changed the world, mostly for the better. Unfortunately while many of us have been able to take advantage of the new ways of doing things the Web has implemented, physically disabled people have not.
Microsoft has followed Google’s lead in publishing statistics about requests from law enforcement officials to hand over customer data. It’s difficult to make direct comparisons, but it appears that Microsoft gets more requests but hands over less data.
Opposition to a proposed law that could harm Internet freedom appears to be growing. A campaign with a Batman-style signal aims to draw attention to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which also seems to have lost the backing of Facebook.
The audio tech firm founded by George Lucas, THX, is suing Apple for stealing its technology for use in the iPhone, iPad and iMac products. THX claims Apple has caused “monetary damage and irreparable harm,” and will seek compensation, in addition to a court order keeping Apple from further using the technology until a royalty is implemented.
On Friday, a federal judge ruled the use of National Security Letters (NSL) is unconstitutional, according to The New York Times. The letters, typically written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were used to obtain United States subscriber information from Internet Service Providers in secret and without a warrant, dodging the courts in near entirety. In the name of national security, ISPs were kept from disclosing to users they may be monitored by the FBI.
Windows news Mac news iPad news iPhone & Touch Mobile technology news Tablet computer news Buying guides PS3/Wii/Xbox 360 Green technology Photography