ACPA was signed into law in 1999, making cybersquatting illegal while clarifying legitimate use defenses. Trademark holders benefit from this legislation.
The battle over net neutrality has been marked by breakneck momentum shifts, plenty of legal action, but little in the way of permanence.
The ACLU lawsuit claims that what little information exists has been confined to “scattered news accounts”; what they do know is described as “very troubling.”
For the first time in memory, previously unassailable companies found themselves squarely in government and public crosshairs alike, answering for a series of (often data-centric) misdeeds.
Some lawmakers zeroed-in on whether Google tracks location without consent – Representative Ted Poe of Texas accused Pichai of being evasive about location tracking when Pichai declined to give a yes or no answer when Poe asked if Google tracked his movements if he walked back and forth across a room.
A technique called “password salting” is a good way to make your passwords simpler and stronger at the same time.
Bloomberg detailed how Chinese spies had installed chips in servers of major tech companies—creating a stealth doorway into their respective networks.
The biggest names in tech have increasingly found themselves in lawmakers’ crosshairs at home and abroad. Concerns, however, are not strictly partisan.