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Crackdown on global giants comes as UN criticises content takedown rules and Yoga app debuts
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EU court rules in Telenet copyright case: ISPs can be forced to hand over some customer data use details
Belgian firm must produce the IP addresses of BitTorrent users
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Final guidance on Schrems II ruling: Data from EU could be held up if a third country lets authorities access it
We're looking at you, Uncle Sam
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Foxconn builds stuff for everyone. Now it finds vaccines for Taiwan, and TSMC's chipped in, too
President blames China for blocking government purchases as tech titans say they'll find five million doses
21 Jun 07:59 | 15
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India tells Twitter to obey its laws — or make wielding them easier
Minister lashes avian network and suggests its legal protections may have been removed
21 Jun 04:28 | 17
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Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated
Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors
21 Jun 01:10 | 17
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South Korea bans 1700 tech products for using forged test reports
Huawei, Cisco, and Samsung caught out as US-based testing labs allegedly sent work to China
18 Jun 03:44 | 11
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Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures
Let's 'free up data for innovation and in the public interest,' says paper
17 Jun 15:30 | 116
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SpaceX spat with Viasat: Rival accused of abusing legislation to halt Elon's Starlink expansion
Viasat's 'newfound environmentalism is belied by its actions at every turn'
16 Jun 17:15 | 22
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China's latest online crackdown targets mean girl online fan clubs that turn toxic
China’s fan economy is the new business model for artists and brands - and it sometimes gets ugly
16 Jun 05:55 | 23
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Canadian province's supreme court orders Dell to pay nearly $500,000 to sales rep fired in his twilight years
BC judge lengthens notice period
15 Jun 20:33 | 20
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They think it's all over. It's not now: US judge rejects HPE motion to have Oracle's Solaris sueball dismissed
Here we go again
15 Jun 19:47 | 8
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Tech contractor loses IR35 tribunal appeal: 'Right' to substitute didn't mean he could, say judges
Substitution's 'not a silver bullet' advisor says
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Law prof: New Chinese data regulations make it 'very hard for foreign firms to comply'
Fines for sending 'core' and 'important' info overseas, although what qualifies remains undefined
14 Jun 18:15 | 12
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Amazon exec's husband jailed for two years for insider trading. Yes, with Amazon stock
Couple now definitely past their Prime
11 Jun 21:57 | 37
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BT sues supplier for £72m over exchange gear that allegedly caused wave of ADSL outages
Tii Technologies claims hamfisted BT bods caused problems, not their kit
11 Jun 13:45 | 27
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Mounties messed up by using Clearview AI, says Canadian Privacy Commissioner
RCMP said it only used technology to rescue children, but regulator says that's wrong and Privacy Act was breached
11 Jun 06:58 | 6
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UK.gov's new single enforcement body does not cover rogue umbrella companies, contractor campaigners complain
Why does it always... That's why. That's why it's raining on you
10 Jun 08:30 | 15
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NTT slashes top execs’ pay as punishment for paying more than their share of $500-a-head meals with government officials
None were illegal, but they did put civil servants in awkward ethical territory and execs knew it
10 Jun 04:58 | 23
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EE and Three mobe mast surveyors might 'upload some virus' to London Tube control centre, TfL told judge
Unimpressed beak orders Transport for London to let them onto Southwark roof
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Chocolate Factory competition-squashing tactics receive a firm 'Non' from Paris
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Chinese app binned by Beijing after asking what day it is on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre
Hybrid Instagram/Amazon app Xiaohongshu may just have been making mirthful TGIF post
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Apple settles with student after authorized repair workers leaked her naked pics to her Facebook page
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South Korean regulator to probe in-app payments, creates new 'team' to look into digital ads
The usual suspects are accused of anti-competitive behaviour, naughtiness with data
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Oracle hits UK reseller with lawsuit for allegedly reselling grey market Sun hardware
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Indian government to Twitter: Stop offshoring and outsourcing – or risk losing legal protections
Social network lashed for ‘inglorious’, ‘dogged refusal’ to comply
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G7 nations aim for global 15 per cent tax on big tech and bin digital services taxes
Facebook’s Libra project kicked to the kerb until international rules on stablecoins are set
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Facebook faces competition enquiry on two fronts as EU and UK officials scrutinise its ad data
Did the anti-social network use advertiser info to compete with rivals?
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Tech scammer who fooled Cisco, Microsoft and Lenovo out of millions jailed for more than seven years
Networking giant alone taken for $3.5m
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Beijing gives Ant Group the blessing to operate a consumer finance company
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Google's diversity strat lead who said Jews have 'insatiable appetite for war' is no longer diversity strat lead
Not a fan of homosexuality, either, judging from 2007 blog posts
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US slaps tariffs on countries that hit Big Tech with digital services taxes ... then pauses them immediately
Applies pressure as negotiations on harmonized global web levies near conclusion
03 Jun 05:58 | 42
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Bribery charges against Apple's global security boss dismissed in iPads-for-gun-permits case
Judge decides fondleslab giveaway was offered after permission to carry concealed weapons had been secured
02 Jun 04:58 | 29
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Daimler and Nokia settle long-running patent spat over cellular tech
No more appeals as lawyer gravy train pulls into station
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Ganja believe it? Police make hash of suspected weed farm raid, pot Bitcoin mine instead
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