Optus has been fined $1.5 million in the Federal Court for misleading customers by telling them their services would be disconnected if they did not move from its HFC network to the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Microsoft will extend the same rights that are at the heart of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation to all its users worldwide, the company has announced.

US President Donald Trump has outlined a plan for lifting the export ban on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corporation, suggesting a big fine and a change of management.

Smartphone sales in the US for the first quarter of 2018 fell by 11% year-on-year, the analyst firm Counterpoint says, quoting data from its Market Pulse program.

The University of Greenwich in the UK has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner for forgetting and leaving online a server linked to a database with personal data of 19,500 university students, staff, alumni and conference visitors.

Google is aiding people in bypassing anonymity orders issued by courts in the UK by allowing them to uncover the identity of rape victims who are allowed to remain anonymous under the law, it has been claimed.

The FBI has grossly exaggerated, on more than one occasion, the number of digital devices it cannot access due to encryption, claiming a figure of 7800 when the actual figure was between 1000 and 2000.

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