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VPN provider wins a court fight: police can't get or use its database
VPN provider wins a court fight: police can't get or use its database
Freedome VPN wins Finnish law enforcement authorities in Court of Appeals over its user database. 21 Oct 2020
Facebook: We'll quit Europe, no more Instagram or Facebook for European users
Facebook: We'll quit Europe, no more Instagram or Facebook for European users
Facebook threatens to quit European markets unless data flow between United States and EU is kept intact. Move could involve both, Facebook and Instagram. 22 Sep 2020 - 4 comments
Thousands of American companies have broken EU law for the past two weeks
Thousands of American companies have broken EU law for the past two weeks
EU Court terminated the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, making it essentially illegal for American companies to store EU user data within U.S. soil. 03 Aug 2020 - 1 comment
Apple taken to court over antitrust issues on App Store
Apple taken to court over antitrust issues on App Store
Apple's perhaps strongest part of the business is not iPhones or iPads themselves but the App Store, which keeps on printing money with royalties. ...... 06 Jun 2019
Google loses a court case - Ordered to remove search results that include personal information of a convicted murderer
Google loses a court case - Ordered to remove search results that include personal information of a convicted murderer
Google has just lost a court case in Finland. The Supreme Administrative Court of Finland decided today that the search engine giant has to ...... 17 Aug 2018
Lars Ulrich: Metallica vs. Napster maybe not the smartest PR move of all time
Lars Ulrich: Metallica vs. Napster "maybe not the smartest PR move of all time"
We at AfterDawn followed the early days of digital music very closely, and that meant obviously reporting on the historical Metallica vs. Napster ...... 10 Nov 2017 - 2 comments
Court: Fan-made subtitles are illegal
Court: Fan-made subtitles are illegal
Swedish court decided that distributing fan-made movie subttiles is illegal. 15 Sep 2017 - 9 comments
Finnish court: Pirate Bay founders must pay over 400'000 euros to copyright owners
Finnish court: Pirate Bay founders must pay over 400'000 euros to copyright owners
In Finland, the Helsinki district court has ruled that two of the three founders of The Pirate Bay must pay over 400'000 euros to music industry ...... 25 Aug 2017 - 1 comment
Apple continues in its attempt to ban some of Samsung's products in the U.S.
Apple continues in its attempt to ban some of Samsung's products in the U.S.
Apple has filed a new motion to renew its ongoing efforts to stop sales of Samsung products in the U.S. 29 Dec 2013
Finnish court: It is alright to censor a website that criticizes censorship
Finnish court: It is alright to censor a website that criticizes censorship
Finnish website that criticized the censorship in Finland was censored. And now it lost its case in Supreme Administrative Court, too. 26 Aug 2013 - 14 comments
AT&T loses court case over data throttling
AT&T loses court case over data throttling
AT&T has lost a court case to 39-year-old Matt Spaccarelli, over smartphone data throttling. Spaccarelli is an iPhone owner who has AT&T's ...... 18 Mar 2012 - 8 comments
Trial for Xbox 360 modder gets delayed after judge bashes prosecution
Trial for Xbox 360 modder gets delayed after judge bashes prosecution
The jury trial for the case of Matthew Crippen has been delayed today, after the presiding judge took 30 minutes to lecture the prosecution. ...... 02 Dec 2010 - 28 comments
     

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