Tech site Ars Technica has just ripped apart a recent report from the Council of Europe, which likened the health risks of WiFi to those of smoking and asbestos poisoning. Based on the report, European states have been encouraged to ban WiFi in schools while citizens have been encouraged to use wired phones. As Ars says, ‘those are pretty radical responses for what remains a purely hypothetical risk.’ As a background, the site points out that almost all the studies that have examined ...

Bloomberg reports that PayPal is suing Google and two of its executives, claiming that the search giant has misappropriated trade secrets from its mobile payment business. The company alleges that Osama Bedier, a former PayPal exec now employed by Google, stole confidential information from PayPal is now leading Google’s efforts to "bring point of sale technologies and services to retailers on its behalf." "Bedier and Google have misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retailers," Bloomberg cites ...

The UK's implementation of new EU e-privacy regulations has been thrown into confusion, after Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey signed an open letter saying that websites may not, after all, need to gain user consent to deploy cookies. New laws stipulate that unless a cookie is required for a service, such as online checkouts, websites must gain consent from users before dropping them onto systems. However, Vaizey's letter says the new rules do not necessarily require 'prior consent,' and that there is 'no indication ...