Former Prosecutor: ISP Content Filtering Might be a ‘Five-Year Felony’: “Broadband providers who snoop on customer traffic to deliver custom ads or shut down BitTorrent traffic may be violating the federal Wiretap Act, a law…
Engadget 22/05/2008 20:28 Well, it took longer than 15 days to reach a resolution, but apparently RIM is going to back down and allow the Indian government to monitor the Blackberry network in that country….
The case for censoring hate: Mark Freiman, an expert on Canadian hate-speech law, defends Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 In 2002, Canada’s legal system finally…
Facebook battles Google over access to user data: “Facebook has suspended the use of a Google service which allowed people to export their Facebook friends list to other websites, claiming that the Google service violates…
Electronic Frontiers Australia decries money wasted on Internet Filtering: Thu 15-May-2008 See also http://nocleanfeed.com/ Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today expressed its disappointment at the Federal Government’s decision to fund its mandatory ‘clean-feed’ Internet in the…
MySpace suicide case based on breach of terms and conditions: “A US woman has been found guilty of perpetrating an online hoax because she violated MySpace’s terms and conditions, potentially setting a precedent that a…
China dissident held ‘for criticising quake response’ Jonathan Watts in Beijing, The Guardian, Wednesday May 21 2008 Chinese police have detained a political dissident because of remarks he made about the government’s handling of the…
May 21st 2008: BBFC Launches Download Classification Scheme in Partnership with the Home Entertainment Industry The BBFC’s widely recognised and trusted classification system is moving to the world of downloadable films, programmes and video games….
May 21st 2008: BBFC Download Classification Scheme to Include the Adult Industry The BBFC’s widely recognised and understood classification system is moving to the world of downloadable films and will include the ‘R18’ category which…
CoE Press Release: Towards a code of good practice on public participation, access to information and transparency in Internet governance Strasbourg, 22.05.2008 – The Council of Europe, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and…