47 attorneys general back antitrust probe into Facebook

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s latest foes: nearly every U.S. state. A state-level antitrust investigation into the social networking giant now has the backing of a bipartisan group of 47 attorneys general, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday. The Democrat launched the probe last month with seven other states and the District of... Read More

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October 22, 2019

Chinese man sentenced to 3 years in prison for iPhone scam

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Chinese man has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for trafficking fake and altered Apple iPhones. The U.S. attorney’s office in Portland said Quan Jiang was also sentenced Monday to three years’ supervised release after he completes his sentence. Prosecutors said that over the span... Read More

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iPhone, Quan Jiang

October 8, 2019

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watched videos. The San Jose Mercury News says the California-based social media giant denied any wrongdoing in a lawsuit settlement. The settlement notice was filed Friday by the plaintiffs in Oakland federal... Read More

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October 3, 2019

US House panel taps defunct startup for Facebook files

A U.S. congressional committee has requested a trove of internal Facebook documents that the company’s critics say will demonstrate how the social media giant unfairly leveraged its market dominance to crush or absorb competitors. The request by the House Judiciary Committee comes amid a flurry of new antitrust investigations of technology giants, including ones by... Read More

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September 13, 2019

Ukrainian man pleads guilty to hacking, wire fraud charges

SEATTLE (AP) — A member of a sophisticated international hacking group that authorities say targeted businesses in 47 states to steal credit and debit card records pleaded guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges in Seattle. Fedir Hladyr, a 34-year-old Ukrainian, also agreed to pay $2.5 million in restitution as part of his plea Wednesday... Read More

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September 10, 2019

Court rules startup may collect data from LinkedIn profiles

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed the right of a startup company to collect information from people’s public profiles on networking service LinkedIn. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco upheld a previous ruling Monday siding with hiQ Labs, a San Francisco company that analyzes workforce... Read More

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September 10, 2019

Big Tech faces a new set of foes: nearly all 50 US states

Big tech companies have long rebuffed attempts by the U.S. federal government to scrutinize or scale back their market power. Now they face a scrappy new coalition as well: prosecutors from nearly all 50 states. In a rare show of bipartisan force, attorneys general from 48 states along with Puerto Rico and the District of... Read More

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September 6, 2019

As feds loom, states hit Facebook, Google with new probes

NEW YORK (AP) — Two bipartisan groups of state attorneys general are launching separate antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google, adding to regulatory scrutiny of two of the world’s largest and most ubiquitous tech companies. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, confirmed the Facebook investigation in a news release Friday, saying the probe... Read More

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August 28, 2019

Ex-Google engineer charged in Uber self-driving theft case

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Google engineer was charged Tuesday with stealing self-driving car technology from the company shortly before he joined Uber’s efforts to catch up in the high-stakes race to build robotic vehicles. The indictment filed by the U.S. attorney’s office in San Jose, California, is an offshoot of a lawsuit... Read More

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Anthony Levandowski, Uber, Waymo

August 9, 2019

Montana judge orders neo-Nazi website publisher to pay $14M

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge on Thursday ordered the publisher of a neo-Nazi website to pay a Jewish real estate agent $14 million for inciting his readers to harass her family with hundreds of threatening and anti-Semitic messages and calls. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen entered Tanya Gersh a default judgment in her civil... Read More

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Andrew Anglin, Tanya Gers, The Daily Stormer

August 1, 2019

Expert wins settlement in whistleblower case against Cisco

BOSTON (AP) — A computer security expert won a rare payout in a whistleblower lawsuit he filed against Cisco Systems Inc. almost a decade ago, after he reported critical security flaws in Cisco video surveillance software used at major U.S. international airports and federal agencies with critical national security roles. Rather than being rewarded for... Read More

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July 30, 2019

US appeals court keeps lawsuit alive over Facebook parody

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal appeals court has kept alive a man’s lawsuit against a suburban Cleveland city and police over a fake Facebook page that led to his arrest. A three-judge 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel agreed Monday with U.S. District Judge Dan Polster’s ruling that the lawsuit can proceed. Anthony Novak... Read More

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July 29, 2019

No prison for British cyber expert in malware case

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A British cybersecurity expert who admitted writing and selling malware was spared prison Friday by a judge who said the misconduct was outweighed by his help in stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017. Marcus Hutchins, who was hailed as a hero for his role in stopping the “WannaCry” virus, was sentenced... Read More

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Marcus Hutchins

July 26, 2019

British cyber expert to be sentenced for creating malware

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Just as Marcus Hutchins was hailed as a hero for helping stop a worldwide computer virus in May 2017, his criminal past as a malware developer was about to catch up to him. FBI agents had been investigating the 25-year-old British cybersecurity wunderkind for years. Less than two months after his claim... Read More

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Marcus Hutchins

47 attorneys general back antitrust probe into Facebook

Chinese man sentenced to 3 years in prison for iPhone scam

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

US House panel taps defunct startup for Facebook files

Ukrainian man pleads guilty to hacking, wire fraud charges

Court rules startup may collect data from LinkedIn profiles

Big Tech faces a new set of foes: nearly all 50 US states

As feds loom, states hit Facebook, Google with new probes

Ex-Google engineer charged in Uber self-driving theft case

Montana judge orders neo-Nazi website publisher to pay $14M

Expert wins settlement in whistleblower case against Cisco

US appeals court keeps lawsuit alive over Facebook parody

No prison for British cyber expert in malware case

British cyber expert to be sentenced for creating malware

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