[ad_1] The case was first filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute in July 2017, and has since kicked off both a protracted legal battle and a wider conversation about the nature of the president’s Twitter account. About a year later, Judge Naomi Buchwald of New York’s Southern District ruled that President Trump’s ceaseless […]
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Instagram may require permission before embedding photos
[ad_1] Instagram’s statement is likely to play a pivotal role in an ongoing case that could set a precedent for how people can use the feature. In 2019, Newsweek asked physicist and photographer Elliot McGucken to publish a photo he took of a temporary lake in Death Valley. After McGucken refused to license the photo, Newsweek embedded the picture […]
Facebook sues analytics firm that stole user data through third-party apps
[ad_1] News of the exposure first came out last November when Facebook and Twitter verified the findings of independent security researchers. At the time, Facebook said OneAudience and another SDK developer called Mobiburn obtained information like people’s names, emails and gender. Facebook went on to notify 9.5 million users that their data had potentially been […]
Qualcomm fined €242 million in European antitrust case
[ad_1] The case refers to a period between 2009 and 2011 when Qualcomm was in competition with NVIDIA’s modem business, Icera, to create smaller and more efficient wireless chips. The Commission found that Qualcomm sold its chipsets below cost to Huawei and ZTE in order to eliminate the competition. The strategy worked to cement Qualcomm’s […]
Jury decides Apple violated three Qualcomm patents in iPhones
[ad_1] Qualcomm filed suit over the issue in 2017. The patents relate to allowing phones to quickly connect to the internet after they’re switched on; battery efficiency and graphics processing; and a traffic management function that allows apps to download data faster. According to CNET, Apple argued an engineer named Arjuna Siva made vital contributions […]