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  Canada’s Online News Act requires digital platforms that have a bargaining imbalance, measured by metrics like a firm’s global revenue, with news businesses to make fair deals, that would then be assessed by a regulator Canada has issued a legislation to compel platforms such as Google and Facebook to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content. According to newspaper industry sources, the Canadian legislation is expected to strengthen the case filed against Google by the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) with the Competition Commission of India. In addition to Canada, several other jurisdictions including Australia and European countries like France and Spain have passed similar laws forcing news intermediaries like Google to come to the table with news publishers and negotiate commercial terms. Canada’s Online News Act requires digital platforms that have a bargaining imbalance, measured by metrics like a firm’s global revenue, with news busine...

  Hackers affiliated with cyber-crime group ‘Recursion Team’ believed to be behind some forged requests Apple and Meta, the parent company of Facebook , provided customer data to hackers who pretended to be law-enforcement officials, sources said. Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests”. Normally, such requests are only provided with a search warrant or subpoena signed by a judge, the sources said. But emergency requests do not require a court order. Snap received a forged legal request from the same hackers, but it is not known whether the company provided data in response. It is also not clear how many times the companies provided data after receiving forged legal requests. Cyber-security researchers suspect that some of the hackers sending the forgeries are minors in the UK and the US. One minor is also believed to be the leader of the cyber-c...