Tag: Legal

France Fines Google $142,000 Over Street View Data
When Google admitted that its Street View cars had recorded sensitive data sent over WiFi networks, there were many different reactions.  UK authorities more or less brushed off th...
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Company Settles with FTC for $250,000 Over Misleading Online Reviews
A company that sells guitar-lesson DVDs online has settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a whopping $250,000 over c...
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Google Targeted (Again) For Antitrust Oversight Hearings
Google's best lawyers may want to start packing their bags for Washington, D.C. Today, Senator Mike Lee called for the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee to condu...
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Google Faces $600,000 Fine In France
Over the years, Google's had to appear in French courts several times, and it now looks like a recent case didn't go so well. Google's been found guilty of breaching copyright law...
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Microsoft-Facebook Legal Clash Over Personnel Possible
Tech companies poach each other's employees on a regular basis; a week rarely goes by without something alone the lines of a Yahoo-to-Google or Zynga-to-Twitter transfer occurri...
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FBI: Internet Crime Complaints Top 300,000 In 2010
In 2010 there were 303,809 complaints of Internet crime, the second-highest total in 10 years according to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The I...
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ChaCha Sues HTC Over ChaCha Trademark
Earlier this month, HTC unveiled some new mobile de...
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FTC Cracks Down On Mortgage Spammer
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today it has asked a federal judge to shut down a company that allegedly sent people millions of spam text messages. The...
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American Antitrust Institute Discusses Google ITA Deal
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has stated the proposed acquisition of ITA Software by Google may be "straining the...
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Apple Subscription Service Being Monitored By Antitrust Regulators
Earlier this week, Apple introduced its Subscription service...
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Righthaven Appeals Fair Use Ruling
Righthaven has reportedly appealed a court ruling from last fall, which deemed the use of 8 sentences of one of its clients' 30-sentence article "fair use". The ruling...
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Could Full Article-Copying Be Ruled as Fair Use?
We've written about Righthaven a couple times. This is a company with a business model based on suing publishers and bloggers on behalf of newspaper clients like the Las Vegas R...
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Apple Subscriptions Raise Antitrust Questions
This week, Apple launched a subscription service for the app st...
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Online Do Not Track Bill Introduced In Congress
U.S. Representative Jackie Speier  (D-CA) introduced “Do Not Track Me” legislation in Congress today that would let people block the tracking of their online ac...
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Public Tweets and Privacy Boundaries Becoming More Defined
If you use Twitter, what you post to the micro-blogging service is public. Unless you post a...
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