Fahad HFeb 15, 20131 min readFacebook Says Employee Computers Were Hacked, No Evidence That User Data Was CompromisedIn a blog post this afternoon, Facebook says it discovered the hack last month after “a handful of employees” had visited a compromised...
Fahad HFeb 2, 20131 min readTwitter Says Hackers May Have Accessed 250,000 User AccountsThe investigation is still going on, but Twitter says the hackers might’ve accessed some users’ personal information: This week, we...
Fahad HDec 10, 20123 min readFTC: Privacy Disclosures For Kids’ Mobile Apps Incomplete, Deceptivereleased a study of privacy and mobile apps for kids. The study concluded that parents weren’t given enough information in the app stores...
Fahad HDec 6, 20121 min readReport: Plaintiff Willing To Settle Mexican Lawsuit Against Yahoorecently won a $2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo in a Mexican lawsuit is willing to settle the case for less money. Carlos...
Fahad HNov 30, 20121 min readYahoo To Appeal $2.7B Judgment In Mexican Yellow Pages Contract Lawsuitannounced the judgment and its plan to appeal in a short news release this afternoon. Details about the case are vague. Yahoo’s statement...
Fahad HNov 29, 20122 min readPeopleBrowsr-Twitter Case Illustrates Risks Of Building A Business On Third Party PlatformsKred scoring) from access to Twitter’s feed, has fallen victim to Twitter’s recent ambitions to rein in and exercise more control over...
Fahad HNov 26, 20121 min readU.S., Euro Governments Seize 132 Domain Names Selling Counterfeit GoodsThe U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that 132 domain names have been seized this year in two campaigns...
Fahad HNov 19, 20121 min readClickbooth Affiliate Network To Pay $2 Million FTC Settlement Over Acai Berry Ad ClaimsThe FTC recently announced a $2 million settlement with the Clickbooth affiliate network over charges that Clickbooth’s affiliate...
Fahad HNov 19, 20122 min readGoogle Puts “Cookiegate” To Bed As More Legal Battles Loomapproved Google’s $22.5 million settlement with the FTC. Some Google critics decried the settlement as having little impact on Google....
Fahad HNov 13, 20121 min readGoogle: Government Requests To Remove Content Spiked In First Half Of 2012Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From...
Fahad HNov 1, 20122 min readCash-Strapped Euro Governments Look To Online Giants For Additional Tax Revenuescriticized and investigated for what several European governments consider to be tax avoidance. In the UK and France in particular Google...
Fahad HAug 1, 20121 min readGoogle To Pay $22.5 Million To Settle “Cookiegate” In Latest Privacy Fineconfirming that the civil penalty Google will pay to settle the “Cookiegate” episode, in which it bypassed the default Safari privacy...
Fahad HJun 13, 20122 min readFighting Legal Threats With Humor & Charity: The Oatmeal Vs. FunnyJunkWhat could be worse than a web site apparently using your content without permission? How about getting a legal threat from that same...
Fahad HMay 23, 20121 min readGoogle Scores Total Victory Against Oracle In Patent SuitAccording to reports just coming out, the jury in the Oracle-Google trial has found that Google did not infringe any of Oracle’s patents...
Fahad HMay 22, 20121 min readFacebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit, Terms Not Yet DisclosedA Sponsored Stories lawsuit was allowed to proceed against the social media giant as Facebook failed to have it thrown out. Today, the...
Fahad HMay 8, 20121 min readFacebook, Washington Settle Suits With Alleged ‘Likejacker’accused earlier this year of running “likejacking” campaigns on Facebook, has settled separate lawsuits with both Facebook and the state...
Fahad HMay 7, 20122 min readOracle vs Google Split Decision: Jury Finds Copyright Infringement But Deadlocks On “Fair Use&published reports, a federal jury earlier today delivered a mixed result in Oracle v. Google. The jury found that Google had in fact...
Fahad HMay 4, 20121 min readPaypal No Longer The World’s Top Phishing TargetThe Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) recently published its 2011 Global Phishing Survey (PDF download), which says that phishing...
Fahad HApr 25, 20121 min readJudge Declares Illinois’ ‘Amazon Tax’ UnconstitutionalAccording to a news release from the Performance Marketing Association (PMA), the judge ruled that having affiliates in Illinois doesn’t...
Fahad HApr 6, 20123 min readInside Twitter’s Spam Lawsuit: Fighting Five Defendants Cost More Than $700,000We wrote yesterday about Twitter’s lawsuit against the five alleged spammers and, now that the filing is available (PDF download), more...
