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Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

Latest iteration of Texas-led antitrust complaint against Google expands claims of bad behavior

15 Jan 01:10 | 26

Lawmakers propose TLDR Act because no one reads Terms of Service agreements

The bill calls for concise, machine readable summaries of how websites and apps use client data

14 Jan 22:33 | 23

Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements

It took two years for Big Red to find five breaches

14 Jan 20:15 | 8

Microsoft hires law firm to review sexual harassment policies, probe gender discrimination

Tech giant promises to create an implementation plan based on outcome

14 Jan 12:15 | 7

HMRC tool for measuring IR35 status is so great, employers are ditching it in their droves

Survey shows majority of UK firms have lost at least half of their contractors over tax reform

13 Jan 09:30 | 43

Software engineer jailed for 2 years after using RATs and crypters to steal underage victims' intimate pics

Another one who pleaded autism in mitigation

12 Jan 16:16 | 90

A slice is better than none: Apple gives in, allows third-party app billing systems in Korea, per local law

Company follows in the footsteps of its buddy Google

12 Jan 13:15 | 11

Bitcoin 'inventor' will face forgery claims over his Satoshi Nakamoto proof, rules High Court

COPA load of that

06 Jan 15:57 | 76

Facebook files challenge to UK Giphy buyout ban by complaining CMA was 'unfair' and 'irrational'

They really want that display ad and user tracking service

05 Jan 16:58 | 14

IBM bosses wrongly sacked channel salesman after Tech Data joint venture failed, tribunal rules

TSS UK redundancy selection was 'biased, superficial and wholly inadequate'

05 Jan 11:34 | 34

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud: Blood-testing machines were vapourware after all

Fallen Silicon Valley darling defrauded investors, says jury

04 Jan 15:00 | 150

Offering Patreon subs in sterling or euros means you can be sued under GDPR, says Court of Appeal

Even if you've got no other EU legal presence

04 Jan 11:06 | 67

India’s competition regulator launches probes into Apple over App Store fees and access

04 Jan 04:58 | 6

Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang

Don’t mention the human rights abuses, focus on the need for compliance

23 Dec 23:29 | 80

UK's Defra and Ministry of Justice facing £120m IR35 tax bills thanks to inaccuracies in assessing contractors' status

Central government still struggling with its own off-payroll tax rules

21 Dec 14:44 | 49

Malaysia tweaks copyright law to hit streamers of copyright-infringing content

Those enabling piracy may be guilty until they prove otherwise

20 Dec 11:27 | 18

India takes Amazon’s biggest local e-tail alliance out of its shopping cart

Regulator says US giant lied about deal with Future Coupons, which responded by stabbing Amazon in the front

20 Dec 04:02 | 15

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch files judicial review that pauses extradition clock

That makes 4 concurrent court cases over hotly disputed 2011 buyout

17 Dec 16:57 | 32

Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother

Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt

17 Dec 12:25 | 49

China lists 100 topics citizens can't include in online vids

No crypto, no sex, no clips from the telly. Enthusiastic and historically accurate socialism welcome

17 Dec 05:01 | 29

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Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

Latest iteration of Texas-led antitrust complaint against Google expands claims of bad behavior

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

It's blowback time again

Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents

Plus: AI systems can identify different chess players by their moves and more

Russia starts playing by the rules: FSB busts 14 REvil ransomware suspects

Cybercrook gang has 'ceased to exist' says Putin's military service

Alien life on Super-Earth can survive longer than us due to long-lasting protection from cosmic rays

Laser experiments show their magnetic fields shielding their surfaces from radiation last longer

5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here, UK and EU aviation regulators say

US (and Canadian) fears are uniquely Leftpondian, it seems

Multi-day IT systems outage whacks umbrella biz Parasol Group amid fears of a cyber attack

Contractors say they haven't been paid, and are in the dark too

Lawmakers propose TLDR Act because no one reads Terms of Service agreements

The bill calls for concise, machine readable summaries of how websites and apps use client data

Alibaba ponders its crystal ball to spy coming advances in AI and silicon photonics

Machine learning to propel us into glorious era of scientific discovery

Support specialist Rimini Street found in contempt of court for continued Oracle copyright infringements

It took two years for Big Red to find five breaches

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British Mensa arm pays libel damages to former technology officer and director Eugene Hopkinson

Settles claims relating to cyber attack and data leak, court hears

Regulator: Wipro and Infosys execs not off the hook for insider trading

Trader said he was just betting on COVID-induced digitalization, but investigation suggests otherwise

14 Dec 07:01 | 3

Chinese paper runs interview with Alibaba staffer who claims she was fired after exec rape claim

E-commerce giant's #metoo moment takes sinister turn

13 Dec 06:00 | 21

Assange extradition case goes to UK Home Secretary as High Court rules he can be sent to US for trial

Brace yourself, now come years of appeals

10 Dec 12:54 | 99

Amazon fined €1.13bn by Italy's antitrust authorities for abusing its power

'Use our logistics service or don't. It'll cost you either way.'

10 Dec 06:36 | 27

China: Bars app that often hosted dissenting conversations

Also China: This one guy sent feedback to the government online, it was adopted, that shows we’re a democracy

10 Dec 01:20 | 14

Don't panic about cyber insurers pulling up the drawbridge, says Lloyd's

New clauses are menu to pick from, not commandments of stone

09 Dec 10:00 | 10

UK and USA seek new world order for cross-border data sharing and privacy

They'll even run a competition to help this along

09 Dec 08:16 | 39

German court rules cookie preference service that shared IP addresses with US firm should be halted

Schrems II starts to be felt in Europe

08 Dec 17:20 | 34

Microsoft signs settlement with US Justice Dept over 'immigration-related discrimination' claims

Must revise visa evaluation process

08 Dec 15:37 | 10

Google launches lawsuit against a blockchain-enabled botnet

Two Russian men and 15 Does named in Glupteba Enterprise case

08 Dec 12:13 | 7

Indian government committee slams 'gross misuse' of internet shutdowns – even in Kashmir

Officials use them for mundane matters, not big emergencies as laws intend

07 Dec 02:45 | 5

Uber's gig economy business model takes a blow from London legal double-whammy

Free Now taxi app unlawfully registered by regulator – and Ts&Cs didn't comply with the law

06 Dec 15:43 | 19

Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer

Did it during work time and got paid for it, affirms Court of Appeal

03 Dec 13:15 | 34

Alibaba exec accused of mishandling sexual assault case wants alleged victim to apologise

Manager was fired, now wants his reputation restored with post on a prominent website

03 Dec 03:32 | 13

Ubiquiti dev charged with knocking $4bn off firm's value after insider threat spree

Prosecutors claim Nickolas Sharp even posed as a whistleblower to press

02 Dec 21:05 | 8

UK data watchdog fines government office for disclosing New Year's gong list

New IT systems set up incorrectly, published CSV files which included names, addresses

02 Dec 15:02 | 21

Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company

Median pay gap reporting found less favour

01 Dec 13:08 | 4

UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend

30 Nov 13:15 | 27

UK Home Secretary delays Autonomy founder extradition decision to mid-December

Could be a Christmas surprise in store from Priti Patel

29 Nov 18:57 | 11

India backs away from digital services tax after US pressure

Will keep taxing, but consider payments as credits for future global tax regime

26 Nov 04:01 | 13

Autonomy accounts whistleblowers may testify at founder Mike Lynch's US criminal trial

Recent legal wranglings sliced, diced, and dished up for your reading pleasure

25 Nov 11:28 | 8

Beijing issues fines for 43 Big Tech M&A deals all the way back to 2012

Alibaba and Tencent racked up more than ten cases – each

22 Nov 06:58 | 4

Regulators on three continents probing Nvidia's $40bn purchase of Arm, CFO confirms

US Federal Trade Commission latest to 'express concerns'

18 Nov 13:15 | 8

A 'national security' issue: UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe

Digi Secretary Nadine Dorries: CMA to 'report to me' on the next steps

16 Nov 14:30 | 64

SAP patent not inventive enough to get legal protection, judge rules

Teradata also sees wings clipped in ongoing battle with German ERP giant

16 Nov 10:15 | 17

Ofcom slams slammers: Telcos fined for switching punters' phone lines without their knowledge or consent

Guaranteed Telecom, Met Technologies nurse £35k penalty, and to them that's meaningful

15 Nov 10:46 | 15

Brit analysts formed pact to crash Autonomy's market valuation, ex-CFO tells US court

Eye-catching claim in an eye-catching case

12 Nov 13:01 | 22

Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine for distorting competition in price comparison websites

Was going to buy a spider from a pet shop, then realised I could pick one up on the web. Here all week

10 Nov 14:45 | 37

Google swats away £3bn Safari Workaround ad-tracking cookie lawsuit in Supreme Court victory

Campaigners' case had 'no real prospect of success'

10 Nov 10:52 | 32

Belgium watchdog reckons online advertisers should be data controllers under GDPR

Real-time bidding advertising tested by European authorities

08 Nov 15:32 | 14

Slapped wrists at Broadcom as FTC approves order against 'anticompetitive' conduct

No more loyalty deals or spanking customers for going elsewhere

05 Nov 18:30 | 3

22-year-old Brit accused of Twitter SIM-swap heists charged with $784k cryptocurrency theft

He's in Spain, faces extradition to the US to stand trial

04 Nov 13:30 | 26

Assange psychiatrist misled judge over parentage of his kids, US tells High Court

Didn't make clear he was their dad... Why? In case CIA harmed them, suggests his barrister

28 Oct 14:37 | 159

Teen bought Google ad for his scam website and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers

'If he was an adult he would be going inside' – judge

27 Oct 13:27 | 69

Google deliberately throttled ad load times to promote AMP, claims new court document

'Nice comparative boost' for AMP claimed to be achieved by actively slowing other formats

26 Oct 08:30 | 45

Amazon warehouse workers in New York to labor watchdog: We want our union vote

Unions face test on Staten Island after defeat in Bessemer, Alabama

25 Oct 23:18 | 15

Electronic Frontier Foundation ousts co-founder John Gilmore from its board

He's free of governance duties now, but still an emeritus member

25 Oct 05:58 | 21

Microsoft investor urges shareholders to vote for a deep dive into pay gap and harassment policies

More transparency and reporting needed, says Arunja Capital

22 Oct 15:30 | 1

Informatica UKI veep was rightfully sacked over Highways England $5k golf jolly, says tribunal

Underling took customer on bucket list trip - and VP signed it off without checking

21 Oct 10:56 | 30

Software Freedom Conservancy sues TV maker Vizio for 'GPL infringement'

Companies using free-as-in-freedom software should meet their obligations, lawsuit says

20 Oct 16:05 | 40

Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe

That rebrand can't come soon enough

20 Oct 13:49 | 41

Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

He hasn't got $2.5bn to hand to the DoJ, unlike his bosses

15 Oct 16:29 | 149

FTC carpet bombs industry with letters warning that fake reviews will be punished

The Register is an amazing website, simply one of the very best out there. Extremely cool people. 10/10

14 Oct 14:30 | 43

Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs

Report claims documents show employees abusing access

13 Oct 22:01 | 14

Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws

Relax, this isn't a binding precedent - but it puts down a marker

13 Oct 20:03 | 37

EU Commission may extend antitrust probe into Nvidia's $54bn merger with Arm

Investigation to continue into early 2022

13 Oct 07:30 | 31

Booting up: Footballers kick off GDPR case for 'misuse' of their performance data

Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded

12 Oct 15:18 | 30

Australian PM and Deputy threaten Facebook and Twitter with defamation liability for users' posts

Big Tech's Australian lobby responds with more governance for its disinformation suppression code

12 Oct 04:01 | 53

Nearly 140 nations – from US and UK to EU, China and India – back 15% minimum corporate tax rate

Let's see how the world's largest companies wriggle out of this one

08 Oct 21:29 | 84

Ireland signs up for plan to make Big Tech pay 15 per cent tax everywhere

OECD close to finalising implementation plan hoped to secure a share of revenue from digital multinationals

08 Oct 06:58 | 26

Outgoing UK Information Commissioner issues warning about the independence of her office

Blasts proposals for Secretary of State to approve ICO guidance

07 Oct 16:33 | 9

Google won't fight South Korea's new app store payment laws requiring third-party payments

But will 'examine options that allow us to maintain the service fees that keep Android free'

06 Oct 03:27 | 11

Infosys and Wipro employees charged with insider trading

Undisclosed information allegedly shared earns one $350k, but he doesn't get to keep it

05 Oct 11:13 | 15

Former SAP leader's lawsuit claims she was canned for pushing corporate diversity

Company says 34.7% women in their workforce is pretty dang good

04 Oct 13:45 | 41

Campaigners call on minister to secure funding to protect UK workers' rights

Including shielding techies against bad behaviour from dodgy umbrella firms

01 Oct 11:15 | 12

Beijing explains what China's new data protection law really means – a month after it took effect

Orders annual data reviews to ensure compliance with rules on how to handle data that's terrifying to lose, or merely scary

01 Oct 05:59 | 5

Brit law firm files suit against Google and Deepmind over use of hospital patients' data

Royal Free Hospital saga continues as representative action brought

30 Sep 16:02 | 15

Autonomy founder Lynch scores extradition decision delay as Home Sec ponders sending him to US

All eyes on Priti Patel as High Court case recedes into insignificance

30 Sep 13:59 | 24

Oracle loses appeal against $3bn payment to HPE over withdrawal of Itanium support

Could one of the longest and dirtiest cases in tech history finally be over?

30 Sep 12:27 | 22

BT sued by representatives of the dead over unbundled landline market abuse claims

2.4m living and non-living Britons could score a payout, reckons lawsuit starter

29 Sep 15:30 | 5

Infosec outfit Group-IB's website was defaced in weeks before CEO's arrest over high treason claims

Co-founder takes over after Ilya Sachkov reportedly nabbed

29 Sep 13:33 | 8

Azure Purview is a preview no more: Microsoft is ready to sniff your sensitive data

Governance and compliance are the watchwords here

28 Sep 17:45 | 4

Texas cops sue Tesla claiming 'systematic fraud' in Autopilot after Model X ploughed into two parked police cars

Five officers seek $20m in damages from car maker and local restaurant

28 Sep 15:01 | 129

Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams

1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs

27 Sep 05:57 | 35

California Governor signs bill protecting warehouse workers from unsafe quotas

AB 701 takes aim at Amazon and other warehouse operators that prioritize productivity over health

23 Sep 23:52 | 14

Facebook overpaid FTC fine by up to $4.9bn to protect Zuckerberg, lawsuits allege

A whole lot of ███ in documents which finger Peter Thiel and execs

23 Sep 18:15 | 21

Two Northern Irish cops face Computer Misuse Act charges over Twitter trolling campaign

Prosecutors considering evidence for a number of offences

23 Sep 15:16 | 6

Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on

High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon

23 Sep 11:26 | 28

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 | 19

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 | 4

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 | 66

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

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