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Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS

Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources

22 Sep 03:58 | 5

SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke

Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind

21 Sep 18:32 | 15

Eco-friendly warning from UK tech trade group: Some of you have dirty green credentials

IT sector at risk of public humiliation if CMA finds they're not up to code

20 Sep 19:01 | 3

App Annie fined $10m by the SEC for deceptive practices around how it presented data

Analytics firm will neither admit nor deny the findings

15 Sep 14:15 | 6

Wikipedia bans seven Chinese users amid concerns of 'infiltration, physical harm'

Removes sysop privileges for another dozen, warns more about doxing, frets about preserving freedom to edit in the face of hostile regimes

15 Sep 03:58 | 26

Australia gave police power to compel sysadmins into assisting account takeovers – so they plan to use it

Soon, authorities intend to flush out CSAM and the creeps who share it. After that … privacy types are worried

14 Sep 04:57 | 44

IBM's former Chinese Power Systems partner sues for theft of customer data

Alleges IBM China staff had access to confidential info and took it with them to new Inspur operation

13 Sep 06:01 | 3

Search 'middle finger' on Giphy: Basically Facebook's response to UK competition concerns over merger

'Fundamental errors' in CMA's findings, claims The Social Network

09 Sep 13:43 | 17

Amazon says Elon Musk's wicked, wicked ways mean SpaceX's Starlink 2.0 should not be allowed to fly

Yes, that Amazon. The one that's been fined for breaches of privacy and labor laws and accused of price-fixing, making life hell for unions …

09 Sep 07:58 | 62

Australia rules Facebook page operators are legally liable for user comments under posts

Good news for chap abused by online mob. Not so much for page admins

08 Sep 20:28 | 64

UK splashes out £30m on improving antiquated patent system, Deloitte and NTT Data are the lucky winners

Plans to cut patent renewal time from five days to five minutes

08 Sep 06:20 | 1

Talent shortage? Maybe it's your automated hiring system, lack of investment in training

Harvard-Accenture study suggests opening up to 'hidden workers'

08 Sep 00:20 | 66

UK gov blocks the acquisition of Welsh graphene fiddler Perpetuus Group over national security concerns

Concerns like 'who is Taurus International,' and 'what is Dr. Zhongfu Zhou's relationship with it'

07 Sep 14:33 | 16

Kim Kardashian and Big Tech slapped for spruiking craptocurrency – and holding back useful crypto

Chair of UK Financial Conduct Authority says more regulation will help innovation to flourish

07 Sep 06:58 | 18

Chinese e-commerce tycoon Richard Liu to step away from the spotlight

Rural revitalisation and long-term strategy await founder of mega e-tailer JD.com

07 Sep 03:58 | 8

Apple engineers complain of hostile work environment to US labor watchdog

Harassment, bans on discussing pay, responsibilities slashed, and more alleged

03 Sep 19:14 | 24

Facebook: Let us tell you WhatsApp – we don't want to pay that €225m GDPR fine

Zuckerborg plans to appeal Irish data protection slap

02 Sep 14:27 | 32

Former Cisco exec jailed for fraud, dodging taxes

Lean in for a tale of shell companies, fake CEOs, bribes, prison time and $3.6m in fines

31 Aug 07:43 | 14

Chinese developers protested insanely long work hours. Now the nation's courts agree

'996' culture and its assumption of six twelve hour days - without overtime - labelled abusive and illegal

30 Aug 11:15 | 55

Yahoo! India! shuts! down! news! operation!

Says regulatory changes requiring local ownership made it impossible to continue, but fancies a comeback

30 Aug 01:28 | 3

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Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch

'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'

We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course

Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware

File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server

Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources

Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink

Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'

This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins

No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant

Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status

Inclusion of Weetabix in charity coffee accompaniment tweet creates predictable brewhaha

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back

Mafia works remotely, too, it seems: 100+ people suspected of phishing, SIM swapping, email fraud cuffed

Dare we say, these Euro cops ran mobprobe

Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed

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Online disinformation is an industry that needs regulation, says boffin

Malaysian fake news laws didn't work well, so Big Tech should have to do better at spotting and stopping bad actors

27 Aug 06:01 | 35

Brit says sorry after waving around nonce patent and leaning on sites to cough up

Using that CSP 2.0 feature? You may have received a worrying missive

26 Aug 11:23 | 46

Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog

Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy

26 Aug 04:57 | 22

Another UK government limb that can't get IR35 right: Court service pays taxman £12.5m

HMRC's 'fundamentally flawed' Check Employment Status Tool strikes again

23 Aug 15:29 | 35

China puts continuous consent at the center of data protection law

Regs coming into effect from November 1 even give your family rights to your data after you log off this mortal coil

23 Aug 07:03 | 13

New on Netflix: A corporate drama in which staff are sued for abusing early access to financial data

Plus: Pearson settles case for $1m alleging it misled investors over data spillage

19 Aug 07:30 | 15

Chinese web giant Tencent predicts Beijing has more internet regulations coming – and welcomes them

China is ahead of US and Europe on regulation, says company prez

19 Aug 04:58 | 13

GSMA and Euro-telcos argue for exemptions from big tech tax crackdown laws

Claim members already pay plenty, and might build fewer networks if asked to pay more

18 Aug 05:29 | 17

Blackbaud – firm that paid off crooks after 2020 ransomware attack – fails to get California privacy law claim dropped

Suit could net $750 a pop under GDPR-ish rule for complainants who allege info 'unencrypted'

17 Aug 11:34 | 4

World Intellectual Property Office settles dispute with CIO it previously ousted for 'criminal misconduct'

Complaints of 'retaliation and irregular termination' over whistleblowing backed by committee, admits governing body

16 Aug 10:35 | 12

India makes a play to source rare earths – systematic scrapping of its old cars

Doesn't hurt that taking clunkers off the road will address India's other health emergency: foul air in Delhi

16 Aug 00:59 | 33

Alibaba to offer self-defense training in response to sexual assault allegation

Pledges to 'strengthen organizational guardrails' with raft of new policy and training initiatives

13 Aug 03:15 | 10

Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong awarded Get Out Of Jail Free card

South Korea needs Samsung monopolising effectively as it pursues industry development plans

10 Aug 01:58 | 12

Alibaba fires manager accused of sexually assaulting colleague

Chinese netizens and State media unleash as it emerges web giant lacks formal sexual harassment policy

09 Aug 08:11 | 31

Huawei reports severe revenue drop as US sanctions bite consumer business

Chinese chipmaker SMIC also reports trouble getting the American kit it needs to expand

09 Aug 02:31 | 15

Sueball over breach of more than 5 million payment cards at Dixons Carphone hit for six

Last claim standing relegated to the County Court after judge's ruling

04 Aug 10:30 | 13

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