A federal court in Illinois ruled in favor of Columbia College Chicago in a suit brought by a student unhappy that the school moved its classes online and closed its campus for much of the spring 2020 semester due to the pandemic. The student did not prove the school “made any specific promise of on-campus, in-person instruction or services.”
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An information blackout under Myanmar’s military junta worsened Thursday as fiber broadband service, the last legal way for ordinary people to access the internet, became intermittently inaccessible on several networks.
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The ruling vacates a federal judge’s decision that the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain’s website violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by being inaccessible to visually impaired people who use screen-reader software.
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A federal court in San Francisco preliminarily approved a $12 million settlement in a class action relating to AT&T slowing down data speeds for customers with unlimited data plans.
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Myanmar’s wireless broadband internet services were shut down on Friday by order of the military, local providers said, as protesters continued to defy the threat of lethal violence to oppose the junta’s takeover.
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Smartphones, tablets and computers sold in Russia must now come with pre-installed domestic software and apps from Thursday in a new law seen by critics as another attempt to curb online freedom.
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H&M disappeared from the internet in China as the government raised pressure on shoe and clothing brands and announced sanctions Friday against British officials in a spiraling fight over complaints of abuses in the Xinjiang region.
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The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge.
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Lawmakers pushed for accountability on the spread of misinformation online — the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google pushed back.
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Utah has pushed forward with ambitious plans to require porn filters on cell phones and tablets, appeasing conservative lawmakers’ ongoing campaign on decency in the Mormon stronghold.
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While the seemingly age-old partisan wars over immigration, abortion and voting rights continue to divide Texas lawmakers this legislative session, internet-for-all legislation appears to be on a friction-free path to the governor’s desk.
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A federal judge in California ruled Google must face privacy violation claims alleging the company tracked web browsing after users opted to use the company’s privacy mode.
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The Wikimedia Foundation argued for the yearslong dispute over surveillance of international communications to be decided on its merits, but the appeals court hearing centered on whether the nonprofit has standing to bring its case.
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The federal panel endorsed immunity for the website, which had banned a pastor over videos in which he identified as a “former homosexual.”
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Indigenous communities still under boil water advisories won’t get clean drinking water this month as the government promised. Instead, they will get a letter promising to meet that goal soon, and a website tracking progress.
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The decision could have far-reaching consequences for websites displaying copyrighted works.
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A three-judge panel of the court ruled that the aggregator’s practice of republishing dozens of articles found in the blog’s RSS feed violated copyright law and didn’t fall under fair use.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed a putative class action challenging Ancestry.com’s use of old yearbook photos and other information in its “Yearbook Database.” The plaintiff’s lack standing and Ancestry is immune from liability under the Communications Decency Act.
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Another run on shares of the brick-and-mortar retailer, as well as rising yields among Treasury bonds, spooked investors Thursday, causing a fire sale as markets dropped precipitously.
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India on Thursday rolled out new regulations for social media companies and digital streaming websites to make them more accountable for the online content shared on their platforms, giving the government more power to police it.
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