Justice

DOJ Shares Criminal Probe Evidence With Judge In Waymo vs. Uber SuitDOJ Shares Criminal Probe Evidence With Judge In Waymo vs. Uber Suit

DOJ Shares Criminal Probe Evidence With Judge In Waymo vs. Uber Suit

ANALYSIS: In a surprise development, lawyers reveal evidence from ongoing criminal investigation of Uber to the judge in Waymo’s civil…

7 years ago
Google Slapped With UK Lawsuit Over Data GatheringGoogle Slapped With UK Lawsuit Over Data Gathering

Google Slapped With UK Lawsuit Over Data Gathering

Long rumbling argument over Google tracking Safari users results in mass civil lawsuit against the firm

7 years ago
Google Appeal Claims EU Misstated Facts When It Imposed Massive FineGoogle Appeal Claims EU Misstated Facts When It Imposed Massive Fine

Google Appeal Claims EU Misstated Facts When It Imposed Massive Fine

In its appeals of a $2.9 billion fine, Google has claimed that the European Commission misstated the facts about the…

7 years ago
Native American Tribe Sues Microsoft For Patent ViolationNative American Tribe Sues Microsoft For Patent Violation

Native American Tribe Sues Microsoft For Patent Violation

Are 'patent trolls' now exploiting sovereign immunity for native Americans with latest lawsuits?

7 years ago
Google Submits Compliance Plans For EU Antitrust OrderGoogle Submits Compliance Plans For EU Antitrust Order

Google Submits Compliance Plans For EU Antitrust Order

Google sends antitrust regulators its proposed fixes to compile with shopping results antitrust order

8 years ago
Authorities Take Down Dark Web’s Biggest Criminal MarketplaceAuthorities Take Down Dark Web’s Biggest Criminal Marketplace

Authorities Take Down Dark Web’s Biggest Criminal Marketplace

AlphaBay and Hansa were together responsible for the trading of hundreds of thousands of illegal commodities

8 years ago
John McAfee Settles Legal Fight With IntelJohn McAfee Settles Legal Fight With Intel

John McAfee Settles Legal Fight With Intel

What's in a name? Colourful former security tycoon reaches settlement with Intel over use of his name

8 years ago
EU Penalty For Apple’s ‘Illegal’ Tax Benefit Prompts US InterventionEU Penalty For Apple’s ‘Illegal’ Tax Benefit Prompts US Intervention

EU Penalty For Apple’s ‘Illegal’ Tax Benefit Prompts US Intervention

American government reportedly intervenes in Apple's appeal against huge tax penalty levelled by EU last year

8 years ago
ICO Hits Keurboom Communications With £400,000 For 100m Nuisance CallsICO Hits Keurboom Communications With £400,000 For 100m Nuisance Calls

ICO Hits Keurboom Communications With £400,000 For 100m Nuisance Calls

The Information Commissioner's Office is taking a hard-line against nuisance calls

8 years ago
FCC Website ‘Attacked’ After John Oliver Net Neutrality Call To ArmsFCC Website ‘Attacked’ After John Oliver Net Neutrality Call To Arms

FCC Website ‘Attacked’ After John Oliver Net Neutrality Call To Arms

US regulator claims website attack, hours after British comedian urges people to protest against rule change

8 years ago
Aussie Regulator Sues Apple For ‘Bricking’ Third-Party Repaired iPhonesAussie Regulator Sues Apple For ‘Bricking’ Third-Party Repaired iPhones

Aussie Regulator Sues Apple For ‘Bricking’ Third-Party Repaired iPhones

Error 53 row continues. Apple accused of 'bricking' iPhones, if cracked screens were fixed by third parties

8 years ago
Data Protection Watchdog Fines Eleven More UK CharitiesData Protection Watchdog Fines Eleven More UK Charities

Data Protection Watchdog Fines Eleven More UK Charities

Good causes doesn't excuse misuse of personal data says ICO, as it fines charities for 'wealth screening'

8 years ago
Developer Of Citadel Trojan Faces 10 Year Prison SentenceDeveloper Of Citadel Trojan Faces 10 Year Prison Sentence

Developer Of Citadel Trojan Faces 10 Year Prison Sentence

Russian developer of banking trojan that stole more than £400m, faces lengthy stint in American jail

8 years ago
Fibre Broadband Fraudsters Handed Hefty Jail SentencesFibre Broadband Fraudsters Handed Hefty Jail Sentences

Fibre Broadband Fraudsters Handed Hefty Jail Sentences

SFO probe leads to conviction of four men involved in bank fraud to fund fibre cables through sewers

8 years ago
Top Researcher At Kaspersky Lab Arrested By Russian CopsTop Researcher At Kaspersky Lab Arrested By Russian Cops

Top Researcher At Kaspersky Lab Arrested By Russian Cops

A top security expert with Kaspersky Lab arrested in connection with treason investigation

8 years ago

NHS Official Imprisoned For Accepting £80,000 Bribe To Award IT Contract

Peter Lewis faces three and a half years in prison for accepting corrupt payments

8 years ago

Civil Liberties Group Targets Crowdfunded Court Challenge Against Snoopers’ Charter

Liberty wants to put the core parts of the Investigatory Powers Act to the legal test

8 years ago

UK Police Urged To Take Crime Fighting To The Cloud

Digital technology should play an increasingly significant role to help British police tackle crime, says new report

8 years ago

Rehab Order For One TalkTalk Hacker As Another Teenager Faces Prison

Teenager TalkTalk hacker has iPhone confiscated, as a second teenager pleads guilty to ISP attack

8 years ago

Hackers Pilfer Trade Secrets In ThyssenKrupp Cyber Attack

Hackers have looted sensitive trade secrets from a German conglomerate in latest damaging data breach

8 years ago

Drone Conference Examines Security And Safety Implications

Experts discuss safeguarding against drones that pose increasing threats to prisons, airports and public safety

8 years ago

Samsung Wins Supreme Court Patent Battle Against Apple

The Korean tech giant wins this round of patent disputes against Cupertino

8 years ago

Police Ambush Criminal To Bypass iPhone Security

How to get around the problem of a locked smartphone? Just ambush the criminal when he is using it. Simples

8 years ago

Europol Terror Data Found On Unsecured Network Drive

Red faces at Euro cops after sensitive terror data is found online by Dutch TV programme

8 years ago

MPs Demand Action Against Ticket Tout Bots

Politicians want the Government to make it illegal for touts to use computer software to harvest tickets as soon as…

8 years ago

Privacy Shield Faces Second Legal Challenge From French Privacy Advocacy Group

A second group of privacy campaigners join legal challenge to US-European Privacy Shield agreement

8 years ago

British Intelligence Agencies Collected Personal Data Unlawfully For Over A Decade

The Investigatory Power Tribunal found the government’s digital snooping activities to be a breach of the European Convention of Human…

9 years ago

Apple, Google And Amazon Support Microsoft With US Government Gag Order Fight

Tech and media compaines throw Microsoft their support of a gagging lawsuit fight with the US government

9 years ago

Kim Dotcom Begins Appeal Against Extradition Ruling

Megaupload's Kim Dotcom wants New Zealand court appeal against extradition to be live streamed

9 years ago