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eMudhra drops TLS certificates days after browsers blocked its keys

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eMudhra is leaving the global SSL/TLS certificate business, days after browsers blocked eight of its certificates. The Indian certificate authority’s board decided to withdraw voluntarily, the company said on Thursday. The business brings in about 1% of eMudhra’s global revenue, its chairman, V. Srinivasan, said. Data sovereignty and compliance rules have made it more complex […]

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Meta to pay $25B in New Mexico case over misleading Facebook users

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A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up to $40B, and Meta plans to appeal. A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta […]

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German court calls Google’s aerial imagery ‘spying’, Google will appeal

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A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satellite views on Google Earth and Google Maps break Germany’s strict privacy laws. It went further, and called the practice “spying”. A man in Frankfurt brought the […]

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Eight eMudhra certificate keys were so weak that one was the number 4

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Anyone could calculate the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates from the certificates themselves. eMudhra is a certificate authority based in India. Anyone holding the keys could issue a certificate for any website that browsers and apps would accept. A researcher credited only as Wayne reported the problem to the browser root programs on […]

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Australia set to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube, Bloomberg reports

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Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google’s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s. Communications Minister Anika Wells told Bloomberg that the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is using new powers to build the case. Wells named Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube as the five services facing legal action, […]

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FTC clears Publicis’ $2.2bn LiveRamp deal if rivals keep equal access

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The US Federal Trade Commission will let Publicis Groupe buy LiveRamp for $2.2bn, but only if the data company keeps serving the agency’s rivals on equal terms. The proposed consent order, announced on Monday, binds both companies for five years. Publicis must give every LiveRamp customer “non-discriminatory access and support on fair and reasonable terms”. […]

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Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case

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The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. The case could expose many websites to privacy lawsuits.The justices heard arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global on Wednesday, CNET reported. Paramount’s case did not seem to persuade them, Bloomberg Law reported. The case In […]

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Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash

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Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough. The company changed the terms late on Friday after complaints from business customers and the media, Gizmodo reported. The revised terms preview no […]

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Flock’s CEO says it has never dropped a police customer over abuse

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Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos. Flock would “fire” a customer that knowingly broke the law, he said, TechCrunch reported. “Most of the […]

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FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents

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The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the subpoenas to CBS News and declined to comment further. OpenAI […]

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