WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court upheld on Tuesday the government’s dismantling of rules that regulate companies that connect consumers to the internet, but said that the Federal Communications Commission had overstepped by broadly blocking state and local governments from writing their own rules. The mixed ruling, by the United States Court of Appeals for […]
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the Trump administration acted lawfully when it scrapped the U.S. government’s net neutrality rules in 2017, dealing a blow to tech giants and consumer advocates who argued that the repeal would create a stratified Internet of fast and slow lanes. In a nearly 200-page opinion, judges on the
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Getty Images | Jacobo Zanella A nonprofit organization that provides free online access to broadcast TV stations has accused TV networks of colluding to limit access to those channels. The nonprofit that runs Locast, the free TV service, made the allegations in an answer to a lawsuit filed by ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. The
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LONDON — Europe’s highest court limited the reach of the landmark online privacy law known as “right to be forgotten” on Tuesday, restricting people’s ability to control what information is available about them on the internet. In a decision with broad implications for the regulation of the internet, the European Court of Justice ruled that
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A decision in favor of French regulators might have set a difficult precedent. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. Source link
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The state of Tamil Nadu is trying to get Facebook’s transfer petition dismissed by the Supreme Court of India. Advocate General Vijay Narayan filed the state’s response to the Supreme Court today (12 September) along with asking the apex court to allow the Madras High Court to hear and pass the appropriate judgement on the
LinkedIn has lost a court appeal in which it sought to stop a third party company from accessing publicly posted user information. Source link
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Down with this sort of thing YAY! IT’S FACEBOOK Friday! Yes, almost every Friday, a story about Facebook breaks just as we’re all thinking about heading to the pub and we have to decide which is more important. Reader, this time, you win. It’s a biggie. Eight states, as well as the District of Columbia,
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A British court ruled Wednesday that a police force’s use of automated facial recognition technology is lawful, dealing a blow to an activist concerned about its implications for privacy. Existing laws adequately cover the South Wales police force’s deployment of the technology in a trial, two judges said , in what’s believed to be the
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Craig Wright, the man who on several occasions has claimed to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is appealing a court ruling that ordered him to hand over around $5 billion in bitcoin to the estate of former business partner David Kleiman. Southern District Court of Florida magistrate Bruce Reinhart ruled in late August that Wright (pictured) should not
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