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Copyright and trademark law are often the weapon of choice when
corporate content producers become unhappy with how their works of used,
even in cases where such uses are legal.The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) yesterday issued a report and scorecard revealing its
assessment of how major service providers and social media platforms
respond when copyright and trademark holders use those weapons
indiscriminately.From an EFF press release.
EFF examined 13 companies and issued stars if they met the baseline
standards for what a service can do to defend its users' speech against
copyright and trademark bullies. The services could receive a maximum
of five stars, based on criteria including publicly documented
procedures for responses to DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices,
how the services handle trademark disputes, and if the company issued
detailed transparency reports.To read this article in full or to leave a
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Swedish
ISP Bahnhof must resume retaining customer communications metadata for
police use by the end of November or pay a fine of 5 million Swedish
Kronor (US$685,000), the Swedish telecom authority has ruled.Bahnhof
should comply with Swedish law requiring ISPs to retain customers’
location and traffic metadata for six months for law enforcement
purposes, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) said Monday.Bahnhof
will fight the order, CEO Jon Karlung said Tuesday.The ISP stopped
retaining the communications metadata and deleted all records with the
permission of the authority after a May ruling by the Court of Justice
of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU’s Data Retention
Directive because it seriously interfered with fundamental privacy
rights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click
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Extending Office 365 functionality to third-party developers, Microsoft
has exposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) so other
companies can add features and capabilities to the online productivity
service.The company announced the new functionality at the TechEd Europe
conference, held this week in Barcelona.The APIs are a way for
third-party programs to access the information and capabilities of the
online office suite, including those for user mail, files, calendar and
contacts.Microsoft is “clearly trying to keep Office front and center in
the new world of mobile devices,” wrote Al Hilwa, program director for
software development research at IDC. “The approach of moving to APIs is
the right strategy for providing extensibility to services like Office
365 in the era of cloud. I would expect that they will keep building on
these APIs over time, but they are handling the most important areas in
this wave, which relate to email integration.”To read this article in
full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Since
going operational last week, Apple Pay has been greeted enthusiastically
by iPhone 6 users, participating retailers, and banks. Highlighting
this fact, Wells Fargo yesterday began a new promotion offering
customers a $20 credit the first time they try out Apple Pay.But not
everyone out there is feeling the Apple Pay love. Over the past few
days, both Rite Aid and CVS have taken pro-active steps to disable
support or Apple Pay at all of their nationwide store locations. The
reason is because both nationwide pharmacy chains belong to a consortium
of retailers who belong to Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX). MCX in
early 2015 will be releasing a competing mobile payment platform called
CurrentC. The rub here is that retailers who support CurrentC are not
allowed to support any other type of mobile payment platform. In short,
this is nothing more than anti-competitive behavior that does nothing to
benefit consumers and only serves to benefit retail companies.To read
this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Russia
is likely behind a long-running computer spying campaign, although the
stealthy attacks leave fewer clues than other state-sponsored attacks,
according to a new report from FireEye.FireEye calls the group APT28,
which is short for “advanced persistent threat,” a nomenclature the
company’s Mandiant division has used to classify attacks its analysts
believe come from a distinct group.APT has been active for at least six
years. It tends to focus on targets that would be of interest to Russia,
such as the Caucasus region with a focus on Georgia and European
governments, militaries and security organizations.To read this article
in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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Bing now
supports searches with emoji, meaning you can insert or paste a range
of emoji icons like hearts, smiley faces, food graphics, or any
combination thereof, for some interesting, though not always useful,
results.It’s a novelty feature, yes, but still fun. And one that could
help Bing draw at least some attention away from Google. Google at the
moment does not give results for emoji searches, though its
auto-complete technology does recognize them. Yahoo, meanwhile, does
support emoji searches.Bing’s tool is available in all English markets,
the search engine said, offered as an homage to the shorthand’s
popularity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please
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With prominent corporations from across the economy bleeding customer
data and paying through the nose for it, "cyber insurance" has become a
hot topic in corporate boardrooms and the media. Companies – from the
Fortune 10 on down – are looking to hedge their online risks with
various kinds of business insurance. That demand, in turn, is fueling a
rapid expansion of the cyber insurance industry that was little more
than a niche offering five years ago.
But insurance industry experts and corporate security professionals
offer words of caution for companies that think they may want to insure
their cyber risks. The cyber insurance market, they say, is still new.
Companies that want to buy such a product would do well to understand
their needs and the limitations of cyber coverage before they put their
money on the table.To read this article in full or to leave a comment,
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has changed its H-1B record retention policy to
the concern of people who study the visa's impact on the workforce and
economy.In a notice posted last week, the U.S. Department of Labor said
that records used for labor certification, whether in paper or
electronic, "are temporary records and subject to destruction" after
five years, under a new policy.There was no explanation for the change,
and it is perplexing to researchers. The records under threat are called
Labor Condition Applications (LCA), which identify the H-1B employer,
worksite, the prevailing wage, and the wage paid to the worker.+ ALSO ON
NETWORK WORLD H-1B whistleblower files new federal lawsuit +To read
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The
results are out from the fifth annual Social-Engineer Capture the Flag
(SECTF) contest, which was held during Def Con 22. This year, social
engineers worked in tag teams to trick companies into giving up “flags,”
or key pieces of information that could be used to penetrate the target
company. Unlike bad guys in real life, the contestants did not
victimize any companies.The SECTF report (pdf) includes the results of
how well the target companies did; higher scores do not mean the company
did better as it indicates the targets gave up more flags. Lowe’s
ranked the best and Home Depot ranked the worst. The full SECTF target
company rankings from this year are posted at the top of this article.To
read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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