Turkey’s state Telecommunications authority asks Youtube to create Turkish version: “
Turkeys telecommunications authority has reportedly asked famous video-sharing website Youtube to launch its Turkish version to be unblocked in the country.”
Largest spam gang fined $15m by US court$: A US district court has ordered the largest known ’spam gang’ to pay $15.5 million ($£9.4 million) for sending e-mails estimated to have accounted for as much as one third of the world’s junk mail.
Wikileaks Says It Has Half-a-Million 9/11 Pager Messages: “The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
(Via Wired News.)
Lisbon Treaty could strengthen EU powers in IP and data protection: “The European Union has strengthened its powers to change intellectual property and data protection laws in future, according to one EU law expert. The structure of the European Union changed today when the Lisbon Treaty came into force.”
(Via OUT-LAW News.)