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Patent trolls have gone after some pretty ridiculous things recently. Online shopping carts, scanners, Windows Phone tiles, and yes, rejecting a call and sending it to voicemail. On Tuesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced...California sues Delta for failing to put privacy policy on mobile app
Delta Airlines is the first target of California regulators, who are enforcing a state law requiring mobile app developers to disclose information about their privacy policies. California attorney general Kamala Harris has sued the...CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines
flickr / iMAL.org They had a month—and now it's over. Any California mobile-app developers who don't have a privacy policy obviously available to consumers need to get one and fast. If they don't,...4chan founder sics lawyers on startup for using the name "moot"
A lawyer for Christopher Poole, the founder of the popular online forum 4chan, has sent a letter to the startup firm moot.it asking it to change its name. Poole has gone by the nickname...90,000 Texans want to secede, trolls immediately mess with Texas
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