According to press reports, the parents have been trying to find out whether the child, who was struck by an underground train, intended to commit suicide.

The social network says it had worried that a court ruling could set precedent to erode the privacy rights of other account holders after their deaths.

"We are committed to trying to find a solution that helps the family, while protecting the privacy of others who might be affected."

After a three-week trial in early 2017, a federal jury found each defendant guilty of offenses involving mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud and theft of government property.

To accomplish their fraud schemes, the conspirators recruited the assistance of U.S. citizens via “romance scams,” in which the perpetrator would typically use a false identity on a dating website to establish a romantic relationship with an unsuspecting victim.

Added to Second Life in 2010, Ozimals bunnies were collectible pets that players could breed.

Some owners had secured an "everlasting timepiece", giving their pets eternal life but preventing them from breeding. But the remaining rabbits entered "permanent hibernation" on Saturday.

On Tuesday, Eldritch said he had received a cease-and-desist letter, demanding he "cease all use of Ozimals intellectual property" from a company claiming to have designed the rabbits' "visual assets".

Facebook told the Commission at the time that there was no way for it to match a user's Facebook account with their WhatsApp account. Last August though, these accounts indeed became linked, and the Commission found that employees at Facebook were aware of this possibility back in 2014, leading to the company being fined 110 million euros, or about $122 million.

German publishers, including Handelsblatt Publishing, the owner of Handelsblatt Global, want Google and other search engines to reimburse them for summarizing snippets of their news content in web searches.

The case was brought before the Berlin court after VG Media, an association of privately owned publishers and broadcasters including Handelsblatt and Axel Springer, publisher of Bild newspaper, sued Google.

Rather than pay a nuisance settlement, Cloudflare is going all-out to fight Blackbird Technologies LLC, a company founded by two former big-firm lawyers that has amassed dozens of patents and filed more than 100 lawsuits.

Ars reported on Blackbird's lawsuit against Netflix in February, in which the company asserted a patent on sending CD-R discs through the postal system. The company also has acquired and sued over patents on physical items like a bicycle pet carrier, a buttock lift support, and a sports bra.

Contacted by Ars, Blackbird founder Wendy Verlander declined to comment on any ongoing litigation but said in an e-mail that she is "quite confident we are not violating any ethics rules in any of our cases."

The chief constable of Sussex Police has labelled his staff “everyday heroes” for using the UK's Terrorism Act to arrest a photographer taking pictures of Hove Town Hall.

“They were in a corner because they had to let me go seeing as I hadn’t done anything – and they were so stuck they took a total abuse of power by quoting the Terror Act,” he told Daily Mail Online.

The Guardian reported: “Sussex Police were unable to answer questions on what, specifically, about Mitchell’s actions had provoked a reasonable suspicion that he was a terrorist and under what powers a member of its civilian staff had demanded an explanation and a statement from him.”

It alleges that Apple made "false, misleading, or deceptive representations" about consumers' rights under Australian law.

ACCC chairman Rod Sims said: "Consumer guarantee rights under the Australian Consumer Law exist independently of any manufacturer's warranty and are not extinguished simply because a consumer has goods repaired by a third party."

The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling of contempt against a chap who claimed he couldn't remember the password to decrypt his computer's hard drives.

The Magistrate Judge hearing the initial case, however, did not believe the defendant's claim. The judge "found that Doe remembered the passwords needed to decrypt the hard drives but chose not to reveal them because of the devices' contents."

What exactly are your rights at the border, and should you really hand over your social media passwords to a customs agent?

If you're curious about your rights at the border, how ICE's future deportations will work, and the longest amount of time any US citizen has been detained by border agents, you need to watch this conversation.