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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Yep Lindsay Lohan is suing Rockstar Games over Grand Theft Auto V likeness w video

2014 Sundance Film Festival -Emmett, Furla, Oasis Films Press Conference Well, its official. We will have a courtroom battle between fallen starlet Lindsay Lohan and Rockstar Games, maker of the infamous Grand Theft Auto series. We last reported on the Lohan/Rockstar case back in December, when rumors were swirling that the then-27-year-old would sue the video game publisher.

In the suit, LiLo alleges that Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive used her likeness for one of the games non-playable characters, Lacey Jonas, without permission. Lohan also cited an image on the games cover in her suit.

"The portraits of the Plaintiff (Lohan) incorporated her image, likeness, clothing, outfits, Plaintiffs clothing line products, ensemble in the form of hats, hair style, sunglasses, jean shorts worn by the Plaintiff that were for sale to the public at least two years" the suit, obtained by Forbes, reads.

Its unclear just how much money Lohan will be seeking in her suit. Forbes reached out to the Digital Media Law Project, which indicates that the Mean Girls star doesnt really have a leg to stand on.

"As a general matter, you will not be held liable for using someones name or likeness in a creative, entertaining, or artistic work that is transformative, meaning that you add some substantial creative element over and above the mere depiction of the person. In other words, the First Amendment ordinarily protects you if you use someones name or likeness to create something new that is recognizably your own, rather than something that just evokes and exploits the persons identity." the DMLP said.

Unless Lohan can prove that Rockstar blatantly ripped off her image for GTA, a series thats notorious for its parodies, it doesnt seem like this case will have much traction. In any case, feel free to scroll down below for a video from TMZ discussing the issue from a few months back.

NSA collects daily data from over 200m text messages around the world

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has collected and stored data from over 200 million text messages daily from users across the world.

According to UK spies part of a joint investigation by the Guardian and Channel 4, the NDA extracts and stores the data from your SMS messages.

The investigation discovered the NSA’s activities through material leaked by ex-NSA employee, and whistleblower, Edward Snowden.

From the “untargeted” collection and storage of over 200 million texts per day, the NSA gains personal information like your location, credit card details and contact networks, according to the documents leaked.

The NSA program, codenamed Dishfire, collects “pretty much everything it can”, according to documents held by the UK spy agency GCHQ, rather than only from surveillance targets.

GCHQ has used the information obtained by Dishfire to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications of UK citizens.

“The implication that NSA’s collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is false,” said the NSA in a statement. “NSA’s activities are focused and specifically deployed against – and only against – valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements.”

The GCHQ also stated that all its work was “carried out in accordance with the strict legal and policy framework.”

In addition to storing the SMS data, the NSA also employs a program called “Prefer” to conduct automated analysis on all the communications.

According to the investigation’s findings, the NSA is able to extract the following each day:

More than 5 million missed-call alerts, for use in contact-sharing analysis
Details of 1.6 million border crossings a day, from network roaming alerts
More than 110,000 names from electronic business cards, which also included the ability to extract and save images
Over 800,000 financial transactions, either through text-to-text payments or linking credit cards to phones

The GCHQ isn’t allowed to trawl the NSA data unless it has a warrant, and a memo sets out clearly what access to Dishfire is allowed. It does clearly state that Dishfire’s unique property is that it stores a huge amount of untargeted and unselected information.

“In contrast to [most] GCHQ equivalents, DISHFIRE contains a large volume of unselected SMS traffic. This makes it particularly useful for the development of new targets, since it is possible to examine the content of messages sent months or even years before the target was known to be of interest”, reads the GCHQ memo.

Motorola CEO criticises Apple over iPhone price

Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside has criticised Apple over the high pricing of the iPhone, despite claiming this premium fee could help his company regain ground in the smartphone race.

Suggesting that Apple has kept the iPhone price high despite significant drops in component prices, Woodside has claimed that, moving forward, Motorola will launch more competitively priced handsets in a bid to capitalise on this gap in the market.

“When the iPhone first came out it cost $650 and today it costs $650,” the Motorola CEO said speaking with TrustedReviews.

He added: “The functionality is the same – it’s better but it’s very similar – and we know that the cost of components has continued to fall. We think the prices of high quality devices has to change.”

As well as knocking Apple for its high smartphone costs, the Motorola head has outlined how he expects to use this to his benefit.

Looking to the future, Woodside stated: “We think there’s an opportunity particularly as mobile computing becomes less of a privilege and more of a necessity. There’s a huge market for that type of product which, for some reason, the smartphone industry has not really focussed on.”

He added: “The Moto G was the first attempt to put something out there that was super-compelling value. Something that can help our business get scale and get back into Europe, but can also provide a whole new generation of consumers with a really compelling, simple, intuitive Android experience which we think is important.”

Unlike the iPhone 5S, or even the iPhone 5C which cost wannabe owners from £549 and £469, the Motorola Moto G costs just £135 despite being bestowed with an array of specs more befitting a device twice the price.

Boasting a 4.5-inch, 720p HD display, the Motorola Moto G specs sheet sees a 1.2GHz quad-core processor line up alongside a 5-megapixel forward-facing camera, 1GB of RAM and Google’s latest Android 4.4 KitKat OS.

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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Yep Lindsay Lohan is suing Rockstar Games over Grand Theft Auto V likeness w video

Friday, April 3, 2015

NSA collects daily data from over 200m text messages around the world

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Motorola CEO criticises Apple over iPhone price