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Judge Orders Google to Turn over Jussie Smolletts Emails
A judge has ordered Google to turn over a years worth of Jussie Smolletts emails, private messages, photographs and...
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French government given go ahead to trawl people’s social media in search of tax cheats
Authorities can now check profiles and photos for evidence of possible offences
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Facebook sues OnlineNIC for domain name fraud associated with malicious activity
Facebook today announced it has filed suit in California against a domain registrar OnlineNIC and its proxy service ID Shield…
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Justice Department to open Facebook antitrust investigation: source
The U.S. Justice Department will open an antitrust investigation of Facebook Inc...
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U.S. states launch antitrust probe of Google, advertising in focus
Attorneys general from 48 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico ...
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German cartel office to take Facebook case to High Court
Germany's cartel office said on Monday it would appeal a regional court dec...
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Investigators Use New Strategy to Combat Opioid Crisis: Data Analytics
When federal investigators got a tip in 2015 that a health center in Houston was distributing millions of doses of…
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Facebook sues two app developers for click injection fraud
It’s the first lawsuit of its kind
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Facebook forced to take action against fraudsters peddling fake Libra
The social media giant, Facebook, has been forced to address a growing number of fake communications associated to its digital…
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