• TV Titans Slam Diller's Aereo With Lawsuit
    Well, that didn’t last long. Just two weeks after relaunching as Aereo (dropping its old name, Bamboom), a startup that claims to legally stream video from local New York TV stations is being sued by, well, everyone. “Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Television, Univision, PBS, and two local New York TV stations filed suit against Aereo in a New York district court, charging the startup with copyright violations due to unauthorized rebroadcast and reproductions, as well as unfair competition,” PCMag.com reports. A second suit was later filed by ABC, Disney, CBS, NBCUniversal, Universal Network Television, and Telemundo -- charging Aereo with …
  • Concerns Raised Over Google Privacy Policy
    Today marks the first day of Google’s new privacy policy -- an event that has Web watchers waiting to see how consumers and their advocates respond. “The biggest local critics have been U.S. Congress and state attorneys general,” VentureBeat notes. “The National Association of Attorneys General outlined several concerns around the new policy in a stern letter.” At the very least, it’s “causing a lot of anxiety among Internet activists and some users," the  Los Angeles Times believes. Essentially, Google can now collect information about users across all its products, services and Web sites, and store it in one place. …
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