In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook says it discovered the hack last month after “a handful of employees” had visited a compromised...

The investigation is still going on, but Twitter says the hackers might’ve accessed some users’ personal information: This week, we...

released a study of privacy and mobile apps for kids. The study concluded that parents weren’t given enough information in the app stores...

recently won a $2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo in a Mexican lawsuit is willing to settle the case for less money. Carlos...

announced the judgment and its plan to appeal in a short news release this afternoon. Details about the case are vague. Yahoo’s statement...

Kred scoring) from access to Twitter’s feed, has fallen victim to Twitter’s recent ambitions to rein in and exercise more control over...

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that 132 domain names have been seized this year in two campaigns...

The FTC recently announced a $2 million settlement with the Clickbooth affiliate network over charges that Clickbooth’s affiliate...

approved Google’s $22.5 million settlement with the FTC. Some Google critics decried the settlement as having little impact on Google....

Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From...

criticized and investigated for what several European governments consider to be tax avoidance. In the UK and France in particular Google...

confirming that the civil penalty Google will pay to settle the “Cookiegate” episode, in which it bypassed the default Safari privacy...

What could be worse than a web site apparently using your content without permission? How about getting a legal threat from that same...

According to reports just coming out, the jury in the Oracle-Google trial has found that Google did not infringe any of Oracle’s patents...

A Sponsored Stories lawsuit was allowed to proceed against the social media giant as Facebook failed to have it thrown out.  Today, the...

accused earlier this year of running “likejacking” campaigns on Facebook, has settled separate lawsuits with both Facebook and the state...

published reports, a federal jury earlier today delivered a mixed result in Oracle v. Google. The jury found that Google had in fact...

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) recently published its 2011 Global Phishing Survey (PDF download), which says that phishing...

According to a news release from the Performance Marketing Association (PMA), the judge ruled that having affiliates in Illinois doesn’t...

We wrote yesterday about Twitter’s lawsuit against the five alleged spammers and, now that the filing is available (PDF download), more...