The newEU Trade Mark Directive (2015/2436) has entered into force in the UK through the new UK trademark regulation. The new regulation will bring many changes including: terms of licencing and assignment, seizure of goods passing...
A California federal judge has ruled that law enforcement may not compel suspects to unlock devices with biometric identifiers, including fingerprint or iris scans, calling the practice unconstitutional. (U.S. v. Search, case numb...
As reported byBild am Sonntag, Germany's Federal Cartel Office is concerned that Facebook users have not consented to be tracked across the internet when they signed up for the firm's offerings. The German authority is expected to...
The Japanese Ministry of Information and Ministry of Internal affairsannounced the development of a set of guidelines tackling the spread of misinformation online especially during electoral campaigns and natural disasters. These ...
The US Department of Transportation proposed two new rules concerning drones. Thefirst rule suggests that drones would be able to fly at night and over populated areas without waivers, but will still have certain limitations on we...
By recent reports, Russian government is preparing to move the significant amount of resources to the virtual currencies. Allegedly, Russia is planning the regulation addressing the use of cryptocurrencies and other crypto assets....
The World Economic Forum (WEF) issues the latest edition of his Global Risks Report for the year 2017. On a list oftwelve key emerging technologies blockchain and distributed ledger technologiestakes the sixth place. WEF predicted...
In apublic speech made less that one week before his planned resignation as chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Tom Wheeler called for further protection of net neutrality, saying that 'the open Internet is...
Alcatel-Lucent and Campana have agreed to partner in constructing an undersea Internet cable. The cable is dubbed Myanmar-Malaysia-Thailand-International Connection (or MYTHIC) and is planned to provide a capacity of 300 Giga...
Hyatt Hotels Corp announced that its payment processing system was the target of a malware attack which occurred between 13 August and 8 December 2015. According toReuters, the company identified unauthorised access to payment car...
The Federal Court of Justice in Germany has declared unlawful Facebook's 'Friend Finder' feature. 'Friend Finder' invites users to grant it permission to vacuum up the e-mail addresses of contacts in the address book, thus allowin...
Inresponse to a public consultation launched by the Indian telecom regulatory authority on the practice of 'differential pricing for data usage', Facebook is defending its Free Basics service, while underlining that the company is...