Windows 10 security won’t protect you from tech-support scammers’ lies and trickery. …read more Source:: oss watch
Month: April 2018
A regulation straitjacket is no less than Facebook and everyone else deserves
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•Facebook should be made an example of for failing to protect its users’ information, but it won’t happen. …read more Source:: oss watch
Adblock Plus scores big legal win: It’s not breaking the law, court rules
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•Adblock Plus isn’t in breach of antitrust law or interfering with press freedom, German supreme court rules. …read more Source:: oss watch
Valve dismissal by Australian High Court ends 4-year legal battle against ACCC
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•Valve’s attempt to appeal a AU$3 million penalty and ruling that it engaged in deceptive conduct has been dismissed by the High Court of Australia. …read more Source:: oss watch
ZTE employees asked to learn US laws and pass compliance test
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•The Chinese smartphone maker was earlier this week hit with seven-year-long export restrictions by the US. …read more Source:: oss watch
Facebook moving 1.5 billion users away from GDPR protection
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•Facebook is making changes that will prevent non-European users previously under European laws from being protected by the General Data Protection Regulation. …read more Source:: oss watch
New York probes 13 cryptocurrency exchanges with pertinent questions
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•The New York Attorney General has asked a number of virtual currency exchanges to answer simple questions such as: Who owns you? And where do you keep customers’ funds? …read more Source:: oss watch
Supreme Court drops Microsoft data privacy case, but the battle isn’t over
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•The Supreme Court won’t be ruling on Microsoft’s ongoing data privacy fight over emails stored in Ireland. But the matter is far from settled. …read more Source:: oss watch
Google, Amazon drawn into Telegram ban as Russia blocks 1.8 million IP addresses
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•Russia’s quest to stop encrypted messaging app Telegram also blocks thousands of Amazon, Google addresses. …read more Source:: oss watch
Court tells Facebook: Stop deleting ‘offensive’ comment
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•Facebook’s move to block a user and cut a comment from that account has been challenged by a German court. …read more Source:: oss watch