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JURIST Guest Columnist Patrick Fleming, Litigation Support Director at the Poker Players Alliance, says that the recent decision by the Department of Justice to permit online non-sports gambling has bolstered the legitimacy of Internet betting, but the gambling landscape remains...

US Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano on Friday criticized other nations for not advancing and embracing new technology, thus leaving themselves open to attacks from cyber-criminals. At an international security conference in...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday criticized actions by governments and corporations to cut off funding to WikiLeaks , saying it could violate the website's rights to free expression. The...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced the filing of a civil antitrust lawsuit against credit card companies Visa, MasterCard and American Express . The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court...

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. on Monday settled an antitrust suit with Discover Financial Services for $2.75 billion. Under the settlement, $1.8875 billion was apportioned to Visa and $862.5 million to Mastercard [press...

Nearly 3.6 million US households - roughly 3 percent of the total - fell victim to identity theft during a six month period in 2004, according to a US Department of Justice report released Sunday. The...

Four merchant groups have filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa , Mastercard , and dozens of major banks, over interchange fees, which retailers pay to issuing banks to receive payment for transactions involving the banks' cards. The...

A California judge ruled Friday that credit card companies Visa and MasterCard do not have to notify individual consumers whose account data was stolen by an as-yet-unknown hacker in a mass cybertheft disclosed by MasterCard...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has filed civil fraud charges against former executives of i2 Technologies , a Texas company that produces supply chain management software. In a press release, the SEC announced that...

Class representatives amended a complaint against CardSystems Solutions, MasterCard, Visa, and Merrick Bank Thursday, demanding monetary compensation for negligence. The lawsuit stems from a security breach at CardSystems that resulted in the exposure of some 40 million...