Transcript: FBI director on surveillance of ‘illegal’ Internet activity: When the FBI suggested that it should be able to perform wide-scale Internet monitoring to detect ‘illegal activity’ on Wednesday, the bureau raised more questions than…
Here we go again as if these “voluntary” rating systems for web based content works… Net downloads to get age ratings: “Games and videos downloaded from the web are to be policed by a voluntary…
Home Office backs e-crime overhaul: “Home Office ministers are poised to give the green light for the establishment of a central e-crime reporting and investigation agency in the UK.” (Via OUT-LAW News.)
A Discomfiting Threat to Free Speech – New York Times: May 21, 2008, Editorial, A Discomfiting Threat to Free Speech The Supreme Court upheld a law on Monday that sweeps too broadly in its attempt…
FBI, politicos renew push for ISP data retention laws: FBI director Robert Mueller calls for new federal data retention laws forcing Internet companies to keep records of what their customers are doing, but without providing…
FBI’s Net surveillance proposal raises privacy, legal concerns: The FBI director and a Republican congressman sketched out a far-reaching plan this week for warrantless surveillance of the Internet. During a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee…
Now, you tell me if this a good idea? ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails – Times Online: “From The Times May 20, 2008, Richard Ford, ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails” A…
Bits: Tracking Hate 2.0 on the Web: The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, says the number of online hate sites has jumped 30 percent in the last year. At the briefing, Rabbi…
Criticism for ‘UK database’ plan: “Plans for a centralised database of all e-mail and phone calls in the UK are criticised by the IT industry.” (Via BBC News.)
Cisco Systems Denies Online Censorship Role in China: A Cisco executive told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that comments in an internal document about China’s goal to ‘combat’ a religious group did not reflect the company’s…