| The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed NSA documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive |
Read the article: The New York Times
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| Federal Circuit Denies Rehearing in Apple-Samsung Patent Case |
| A U.S. appeals court has denied Samsung Electronics’ request for a rehearing in a smartphone patent infringement case that awarded rival Apple $548 million. After Samsung had whittled the original damages in the case down from $930 million, the South Korean company had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for a rehearing to reduce the award by another $399 million. |
Read the article: Computerworld
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| Kaspersky Accused of Tricking Rivals’ Antivirus Software |
| Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious, according to two former employees. They said the secret campaign targeted Microsoft Corp., AVG Technologies NV, Avast Software and other rivals, fooling some of them into deleting or disabling important files on their customers’ PCs. |
Read the article: Reuters
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| Twitter Says It’s Complied with 71% of Periscope Take-Down Requests |
| Young livestreaming app Periscope received nearly 1,400 copyright (DMCA) takedown requests during its first three months of existence, and Periscope owner Twitter has so far complied with 71 percent — or about 994 — of them. |
Read the article: VentureBeat
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| Harvard Student Loses Facebook Internship Over Tracking Tool |
| A Harvard University student who created a tool that allowed Facebook users to track a person’s location using the company’s messaging app data got his summer internship offer at the social media giant rescinded after exposing the privacy flaws, a case study published in the Harvard Journal of Technology Science revealed. The study also noted that Khanna was scheduled to start a summer internship at Facebook in software development on June 1, but he received a call days after the app was posted saying he violated the company’s user agreement when he used the site’s da |
