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Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine in Android Antitrust Case
Google is appealing a record $5 billion antitrust fine by European Union authorities, who say the tech giant abused the dominance of its Android operating system to stifle competitors.
Read moreCitizen Suit Fails to Stave Off Presidential Text Alert
Three concerned citizens could not stop President Donald Trump from testing out an emergency text alert that popped up on hundreds of millions of cellphones Wednesday afternoon.
Read moreSuing Apple
A federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a claim that Apple willfully infringed six Corephotonics patents on “dual camera technologies for mobile devices.”
Read moreEU Court Endorses Minor Privacy Intrusion for Petty Crime
Stealing a phone may not be a particularly serious crime, but the European Court of Justice concluded Tuesday that gathering certain telecom data about the thief likewise is not too serious a breach of privacy.
Read moreSuing Apple
MPH Technologies Oy, of Finland, accused Apple in a federal complaint of violating eight of its patents on secure messaging.
Read moreFourth Circuit Dissects Validity of ‘Overly Broad’ Phone Search Warrant
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday was asked to decide whether police violated the rights of a man who later pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge by using an overly broad warrant to search his cellphone and house.
Read moreBlindsiding SIM Card Users With Preloaded Service Unfair, EU Court Says
The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that selling consumers SIM cards with preloaded and preactived services that can charge them fees is an unfair commercial practice when the buyers are not told of these fees and services in advance.
Read moreGoogle Faces Location Sharing Class Action Lawsuit
A class action privacy lawsuit against Google was filed in federal court in San Francisco Friday, claiming that the technology giant continued to track the location of cell phone users after they turned off tracking.
Read moreRights Group Questions DEA Exploit of Encrypted Cellphones
In the first known case of its kind, U.S. drug agents supplied unwitting cocaine-trafficking suspects in California with smartphones they thought were encrypted but had been rigged to allow eavesdropping, Human Rights Watch reported Friday.
Read moreCommittee Examines Border Patrol’s Phone Searches
Warrantless cellphone searches by Customs and Border Patrol agents at the northern and southern borders of the United States have exploded a long-brewing constitutional crisis, a panel of legal experts told a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee Wednesday.
Read moreNSA Deletes Phone Records, Citing ‘Technical Irregularities’
The National Security Agency said Thursday it is deleting call records after “irregularities” caused it to collect records it was not authorized to receive.
Read moreSupreme Court Backs Digital Privacy in Cellphone-Location Case
With Chief Justice John Roberts leading the majority, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Friday that Americans have reasonable privacy expectations in their cellphone location data.
Read moreSIM Card Features
Two phone companies, Wind Tre and Vodafone Italia, should not face fines in Italy over their failure to inform consumers that the SIM cards they were selling had been preloaded with voicemail and internet services, a magistrate with Europe’s highest court recommended Thursday.
Read more2 Women Taking Selfies Struck by Lightning in Germany
Two young women suffered serious injuries after lightning struck them while they were taking selfies in western Germany, officials said Monday.
Read moreFeds Can’t Dodge Lawsuit Over Tech Searches at Border
A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out a Massachusetts lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s policy of searching electronic devices at the border without a warrant.
Read moreClass Actions Claim Uber Harasses With Unsolicited Text Messages
A pair of class actions claim Uber is sending unsolicited text messages to former drivers and other nationwide consumers to advertise its lead generation services.
Read moreSprint, T-Mobile Court Antitrust Authorities With $26.5B Deal
Sprint and T-Mobile announced a $26.5 billion merger on Sunday, promising the development of historic nationwide high-speed 5G wireless network and massive economic growth.
Read moreApp Makers Settle Privacy Class Action for $5.3 Million
A federal judge on Tuesday finalized a $5.3 million deal to settle claims that Twitter, Instagram and other app makers uploaded Apple device users’ personal data without consent.
Read moreReport Details FBI Mistakes in Fight to Unlock Shooter’s IPhone
FBI officials did not misspeak when they testified before Congress in 2016 that they were unable to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terror suspects, according to a report released by the Justice Department Tuesday.
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