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ACLU Asks Government to Investigate Phone Carriers Over Android Security Threat

A complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission accuses wireless phone carriers with leaving millions of Android phone users vulnerable to attack from hackers by failing to distribute fixes for known security flaws in...

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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Online Music Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Sales, European Commission Finds

Research into online piracy comes in all shapes and sizes, often with equally mixed results. The main question often is whether piracy is hurting sales. A new study by The Institute for Prospective Technological...

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Monday, March 18th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Proposed EU data protection reform could start a “trade war,” US official says

Out of the 753 members of the European Parliament, only a very small number are actively working on data protection reform at the moment. Xaf BRUSSELS, BELGIUM—Back in 1998, British comedian Eddie Izzard quipped...

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Friday, February 1st, 2013 Net News No Comments

US Sentencing Commission site down, Anonymous claims responsibility

Early Saturday morning, members of Anonymous claimed to have brought down ussc.gov, the website for the United Stated Sentencing Commission, an independent arm of the federal judicial branch responsible for setting sentencing guidelines. ZDNet...

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Saturday, January 26th, 2013 Net News No Comments

FTC to place limits on Google’s use of standards patents

Federal antitrust enforcers have been looking into Google this year on two issues: how the company arranges its search results, and its use of standards-based patents as ammunition in the sprawling smartphone wars. Just...

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments