US online retail giant Amazon said on Monday it had cut ties with a security firm at the centre of allegations that foreign seasonal staff hired in Germany were harassed and intimidated.
German Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen called Sunday for a thorough probe into allegations that foreign seasonal workers hired in Germany by US online retail giant Amazon were harassed and intimidated.
Internet retail giant Amazon promised to investigate after a television documentary showed foreign workers brought to Germany on temporary contracts for the Christmas rush being intimidated by suspected neo-Nazi security guards.
One of the most anticipated documentaries set to debut at this year's Berlinale looks at the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. The Local's David Landes spoke with Swedish director Simon Klose.
A blog written in support of Social Democratic chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück has been taken offline after being repeatedly attacked by hackers and being subject to suggestions it broke German election funding rules.
German newspapers have rejected the idea of copying the agreement made last week between their French counterparts and the internet giant Google over royalties.
A 29-year-old Munich man has admitted to blackmailing an older gay chatroom user for €865,000, driving him to emotional and financial ruin by posing as both a teenage boy and a top prosecutor.
YouTube’s dispute with Germany’s music rights authority GEMA has resulted in the country being cut off from more than 60 percent of the website’s most popular videos, according to a new analysis.
The Techno Viking is angry – the star subject of one of the internet's most popular memes is suing the video artist who filmed him 13 years ago in Berlin.
Bavarian police have raided the offices of a regional newspaper, hoping to find details on an internet forum user who criticized a local politician trying to control street prostitution.
A top German court ruled this week that people can sue their internet providers for damages if their connection fails. Access to the internet had become a basic right, the country's justice minister said.
He's a hacker, a gamer, a party animal, a legal resident of New Zealand, and a self-proclaimed defender of internet freedom. <b>Kim Schmitz, aka Kim Dotcom</b>, is The Local's <b>German of the week</b>.
Using Facebook can trigger feelings of jealousy and dissatisfaction, German academics said on Monday after studying how the social network affects emotions.
Megaupload founder and German national Kim Dotcom claimed a "massive" response to his new file-sharing service on Sunday in New Zealand, exactly one year after he was arrested in the world's biggest online piracy case.
Germany's music royalties authority GEMA has declared that negotiations with YouTube have broken down, and wants to haul the internet video platform before the arbitration board at the German Patent and Trademark Office.
Two Germans have launched the country's first internet dating ghost-writing service for those too busy to woo women online. The Local's <b>Jessica Ware</b> spoke to a cyber Cyrano de Bergerac.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly has no plans to open a personal Twitter account, despite a looming election and her notorious affinity for sending text messages with her mobile phone.
A new German calendar for 2013 caters exclusively to the retro-nerd market, combining geeky pinup girls with digital devices from the computer stone age. Check out our picture gallery.
For the first time in years German – and not American – websites have shown the most dynamic growth in Germany, a study commissioned by the <i>Focus</i> news magazine showed.
German data protection advocate Thilo Weichert has launched an offensive on Facebook's core "real name" policy, demanding that users should be allowed anonymous profiles.
German bank Commerzbank has got hot under the collar and is planning to terminate a business contract with internet porn mogul Fabian Thylmann following his arrest on suspicion of tax evasion, according to <i>Welt am Sonntag</i>.
Google's annual Zeitgeist ranking gives an insight into what made German internet users tick in 2012, with sport and celebrities topping the chart of the nation's most googled keywords.
A German internet porn mogul behind the website YouPorn has been arrested at Brussels Airport and is awaiting extradition to Germany over allegations of tax fraud.
Computer makers and banks should be doing more to protect themselves and their customers online, German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner said at a Munich conference on cyber crime on Monday.
