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Verizon Wireless customers who have an unlimited data plan and use significantly more than 100GB a month will soon be disconnected from the network unless they agree to move to limited data packages that require payment of overage fees. Ars Technica re… Continue reading Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month
Cory Doctorow, writes for BoingBoing: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just filed a lawsuit that challenges the Constitutionality of Section 1201 of the DMCA, the “Digital Rights Management” provision of the law, a notoriously overbroad law that … Continue reading EFF Is Suing the US Government To Invalidate the DMCA’s DRM Provisions
BetaNews’s Mark Wilson writes: Yesterday France’s National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) slapped a formal order on Microsoft to comply with data protection laws after it found Windows 10 was collecting “excessive data” about users. The company has … Continue reading Microsoft Responds To Allegations That Windows 10 Collects ‘Excessive Personal Data’
Emil Protalinski, reporting for VentureBeat: The smartwatch market has hit its first bump, and it’s all Apple’s fault. Vendors shipped a total of 3.5 million smartphones worldwide last quarter. This Q2 2016 figure is down 32 percent from the 5.1 millio… Continue reading Smartwatch Shipments Fall For the First Time; Apple Only Company In Top 5 To Decline
Smartphones become indispensable tools for journalists, human right workers, and activists in war-torn regions. But at the same time, as Intercept points out, they become especially potent tracking devices that can put users in mortal danger by leaking… Continue reading Edward Snowden’s New Research Aims To Keep Smartphones From Betraying Their Owners
Several sellers on Amazon had noted earlier this month that the platform is riddled with counterfeit products and that things have gotten worse after Chinese manufacturers were allowed to sell goods to the consumers in the United States. Amid the repor… Continue reading Amazon Loses Huge Footwear Company Because Of Fake Products, a Problem It Denies Is Happening
Karl Bode, reporting for DSLReports: Several users have written in to note that Verizon has informed them the company will begin charging FiOS customers with an older router a new “Router Maintenance Charge.” An e-mail being sent to many Verizon FiOS c… Continue reading Verizon Begins Charging a Fee Just to Use an Older Router
Gurb, 75 kilometers north of Barcelona, is a quiet farming community of 2,500. It has suddenly become a popular place, thanks to being the birthplace of Guifi.net, one of the world’s “most important experiments in telecommunications.” It was built by a… Continue reading Engineer Gets Tired Of Waiting For Telecom Companies To Wire His town — So He Does It Himself
France’s National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has ordered Microsoft to “stop collecting excessive data and tracking browsing by users without consent,” adding that Microsoft must comply with the French Data Protection Act within next three months… Continue reading France: Windows 10 Collects ‘Excessive Personal Data’, Issues Microsoft With Formal Warning
An anonymous reader writes: Most of us stopped using video cassette recorders a very, very long time ago. By 2008, DVD had officially replaced VHS as the preferred home media format, and the glory days of the 1980s — when VHS and Betamax battled it ou… Continue reading Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month