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Article | 24/01/2013 Sony fined £250,000 in UK for 2011 PlayStation hack
A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony £250,000 (US$396,000) for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011.
Article | 23/01/2013 A lesson in cyberbullying
The seventh-grade classroom at Aptos Middle School buzzed with animated kids, many of whom whispered to friends and shot curious looks at the visitors...
Article | 22/01/2013 Lawmakers look to reduce waste in US government IT contracts
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged government officials to clamp down on bad IT contracts and limit duplication across projects, with an estimated one qu...
Article | 17/01/2013 US lawmaker: Mobile users should be able to delete data
A U.S. lawmaker has proposed legislation that would allow mobile phone users to ask apps to stop collecting their personal data and to delete informat...
Article | 17/01/2013 Lessig, Demand Progress support investigation of Swartz prosecutor
Demand Progress, the tech activist group founded by the late Aaron Swartz, and Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig have called on supporters to pres...
Article | 16/01/2013 Obama calls for study on video game violence
U.S. President Barack Obama has called on Congress to provide funding for research on violence in video games and possible connections to real-world g...
Article | 16/01/2013 Congresswoman proposes amendment to computer fraud law honoring Aaron Swartz
A draft bill to exclude terms of service violations from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representati...
Article | 8/01/2013 Facebook faces minimal penalties for flouting German law
Facebook only risks a fine of €20,000 (US$26,000) if it loses a dispute over its real name policy in Germany, but will be hurt more by bad publicity g...
Article | 7/01/2013 EU organized crime makes €1.5 billion a year on credit card fraud
Organized crime groups in Europe make about €1.5 billion (US$2 billion) a year from payment card fraud, according to a new report from the European Po...
Article | 24/12/2012 US Congress may not have stomach for another SOPA
As a new session of the U.S. Congress convenes in early 2013, don't expect lawmakers to rush out a new version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or...
Article | 21/12/2012 NRA takes aim at violent video games, culture
The U.S. National Rifle Association broke a week-long silence on Friday to provide its first comments after a mass killing at a Connecticut school and...
Article | 21/12/2012 Senator wants to limit broadband data caps
A U.S. senator has introduced legislation that limits the ability of broadband providers to impose data caps on customers.
Article | 20/12/2012 Video games to come under scrutiny in US gun violence review
Violence in video games and other aspects of pop culture in the U.S. will be among the areas examined as part of an investigation aimed at reducing gu...
Article | 20/12/2012 European Commission drops court challenge of ACTA legality
The European Commission has finally killed the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by withdrawing its bid to have the treaty's le...
Article | 19/12/2012 US FTC strengthens online children's privacy rules
Websites, mobile apps and online advertising networks targeting children will be required to follow new privacy regulations, including getting a paren...