Sentences with phrase «major internet companies»

The leaks showed that the government had been using the 702 provision to sweep up vast amounts of Americans» data directly from the servers of major Internet companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook through the legal authority of a surveillance program called PRISM.

It's not surprising that major internet companies like Google and Facebook are opposing a major privacy bill proposed in California.

Major internet companies on Monday doubled down on their efforts to stamp out terrorist and extremist content online, creating a collaborative forum to share data and cooperate with counter-terrorism agencies and organizations.

He said after the news broke in the Guardian and the Washington Post about Prism, the government surveillance programme that targets major internet companies: «The government response was, «Oh don't worry, we're not spying on any Americans.»

The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance program after a court ruled that some of the agency's activities were unconstitutional, according to top - secret material passed to the Guardian.

Predictably, major internet companies began funneling money into the Committee to Protect California Jobs, a Chamber of Commerce - backed group that is working to oppose the measure and convince Californians to vote no.

This is a bigger challenge than faced by other major internet companies, Zhang said.

The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users» stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.

«Google's data center in Alabama is a poignant symbol of how quickly our energy economy can change for the better, and shows that even in regions that are not yet maximizing their renewable energy potential like the Southeast, major internet companies want the ability to power their facilities with renewable energy,» David Pomerantz, a senior climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace, said in a statement.

It's the latest in a stream of data thefts which has hit major Internet companies over the past few weeks.

End users started taking their browsing session security more seriously (using techniques like tunneling through their home internet connections or connecting to VPNs) and major internet companies made major security changes (such as encrypting the entire browser session and not just the login).

2018 has seen a sudden proliferation in the number of major internet companies seeking to reign - in the use of their platforms for the purposes of advertising initial coin offerings and cryptocurrencies.

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain organizations in Switzerland, Kazakhstan, and Armenia have recently joined those of Russia, China, and South Korea in filing a joint lawsuit against major Internet companies for banning crypto - related advertising, local Russian news outlet RNS reported Friday, April 6.

According to the researchers, ADB.Miner is the first Android worm to reuse the scanning code programmed in Mirai — the infamous IoT botnet malware that knocked major Internet companies offline last year by launching massive DDoS attacks... (continued)

The Forum brings together EU Interior Ministers, high - level representatives of major internet companies, Europol, the EU Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator and the European Parliament.

That includes not just the Walmarts of the world but also the major internet companies, which we tend to view as forever young.

At that point, the companies would have to begin haggling to fend off some proposals that would be intolerable, according to a top policy official at a major internet company.

Before they agreed to install the system on their networks, some of the five major Internet companies — AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., Level 3 Communications Inc. and CenturyLink Inc. — asked for guarantees that they wouldn't be held liable under U.S. wiretap laws.

Major internet companies are shutting out the alt - right and other groups.

New work by British artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell features scaled down versions of the headquarters of all our major internet companies — Google, Apple and Facebook

With time internet became one of the most important parts of our life, and now we can safely assess almost all the world's major internet companies.

As the FCC prepares to close public comments on its net neutrality proposal, major internet companies are organizing a protest to raise awareness.

While public scrutiny of the major internet companies has grown steadily over the past two years, it's unclear whether this past week's revelations will leave an indelible mark in anyone's memory — or more importantly, lead to more regulations of or substantive new policies at Facebook.

But even if a deal involving Alibaba, DST and Silver Lake makes financial sense for Yahoo — the company fired its CEO last month and says it is exploring strategic options for the business — it could get scuppered by regulators unhappy with the idea of foreign ownership of a major internet company.