Filings: the US DOJ drops a bid to force Google to sell its AI investments to boost search competition but still seeks a court order requiring it to sell Chrome
an important search access point—to provide an opportunity for a new rival to operate a significant gateway to search the internet, free of Google's monopoly control.” Anna Langlois / @_annalanglois :...
The DOJ sues Google, joined by California and seven other US states, calling for the breakup of its ad tech business that allegedly monopolizes the US ad market
1. An open, vibrant internet is indispensable to American life. Lauren Feiner / CNBC : DOJ files second antitrust suit against Google, seeks to break up its ad business Wall Street Journal : DOJ Sues ...
In a policy shift, the US Department of Justice plans to stop prosecuting good-faith security research that would have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
to choose not to prosecute security research as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged.” https:...
The DOJ charges four Russian officials for alleged hacking campaigns from 2012 to 2018 on critical US infrastructure, including a Kansas nuclear power plant
Saturday, March 26, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: DiyGarage SoCal Gary Warner / CyberCrime & Doing Time : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and CISA/FBI's New Era of Transparency Cynthia Brumfield / M...
DOJ establishes the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to investigate illegal schemes run by criminals and countries like North Korea and Iran
Friday, February 18, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: ISG Jamie Lowe / Protos : Attorney who kept Ross Ulbricht in prison to lead DoJ crypto task force Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : DOJ appoints of...
Five Eyes governments as well as India and Japan make a new call for backdoors into products that are end-to-end encrypted
A number of experts have pointed to the information … Manik Berry / Fossbytes : Five Eyes, India, And Japan Want ‘Backdoor’ To End-To-End Encryption Phil Muncaster / infosecurity-magazine.com : Five E...
Court docs: after a search warrant, Facebook gave Puerto Rico private info from student news outlets; some fear it was a politically motivated search for crimes
Puerto Rico Targeted Student Journalists' Facebook Data https://theintercept.com/... Claudia Irizarry Aponte / @clauirizarry : .@Facebook granted access to private information that helped PR's Justice...
Apple and the US government have been at odds over iPhone encryption since the debut of iOS 8
Police Reset Shooter's Apple ID Passcode that leaves iPhone Data Unrecoverable David Pierson / Los Angeles Times : Why Apple's fight with the FBI could have reverberations in China Steven Norton / Wal...
Obama administration sides with Oracle in Supreme Court fight with Google over copyrighted Java APIs
Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing — The right of companies to use key elements of computer code, known as application programming interfaces (API's) …