The Guardian (Charlottetown)

ARSENAULT, Mya Rose

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The death occurred as a result of a highway accident, on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, of Mya Arsenault, beloved daughter of Michael and Carolyn (Burke) Arsenault, of South Rustico, aged 17. Mya is survived by her grandfathe­rs, David Burke (Virginia deceased) and Allan Arsenault (Jeanette deceased); aunts and uncles, Arlene MacQuarrie (Dwayne), Amanda Medina (Eric), Mark Burke, Kevin Burke and Laura Burke; special friend, Dillon Arsenault; and numerous cousins and friends. Resting at Central Queen’s Funeral Home, 2538, Glasgow Road, New Glasgow, for visitation on Sunday, September 9, 2018 from 5 to 8 p.m. Funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church, South Rustico, on Monday, September 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. Interment in St. Augustine’s Cemetery. If so desired, donations in Mya’s memory to the P.E.I. Humane Society would be appreciate­d. Online condolence­s may be sent at www.peifuneral­coops.com

A Russian hacker accused of helping pull off the biggest theft yet of consumer data from a U.S. financial institutio­n has been extradited to the United States to face charges, federal prosecutor­s said Friday.

Russian national Andrei Tyurin was arrested by Georgian authoritie­s to face charges he helped steal personal data of more than 80 million customers from JPMorgan Chase in a massive hacking scheme uncovered by federal prosecutor­s three years ago, according to the Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman. Tyurin is alleged to have engaged in securities market manipulati­on, illegal online gambling, and payment processing fraud schemes in a massive hacking effort that targeted other U.S. financial institutio­ns, brokerage firms, financial news publishers and other American companies.

Phone calls to Tyurin’s attorney were not immediatel­y returned.

In an indictment unsealed Friday, Tyurin, 35, was charged with ten counts of conspiracy to commit computer hacking, securities fraud, illegal internet gambling, and wire and bank fraud, the latter which carries a maximum prison term of 30 years.

Twenty years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin set out to organize all of the internet’s informatio­n, the search engine they named Google has morphed into a dominating force in smartphone­s, online video, email, maps and much more.

That resounding success now has regulators and lawmakers around the world questionin­g whether the company has become too powerful as its ubiquitous services vacuum up sensitive informatio­n about billions of people hooked on its products.

Google’s search engine remains entrenched as the internet’s main gateway, and its digital advertisin­g business is on pace to generate about $110 billion in revenue this year. Much of that revenue now flows through Google’s Android operating system, which powers 80 per cent of the world’s smartphone­s. Google also runs the biggest video site in YouTube, the most popular web browser in Chrome, the top email service in Gmail and the maps that most people use to get around.

Not bad for a company that started 20 years ago Friday with an initial investment of $100,000. Google and its sibling companies operating under the umbrella of Alphabet Inc. are now worth $800 billion.

Although Google wouldn’t comment for this story, the company has repeatedly pointed out that its mostly free products are so widely used because people like them.

Google’s success often draws comparison­s with Microsoft.

By 1998, the year Google started, U.S. regulators had become so concerned about Microsoft’s power through its Windows operating system that they

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