Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others gone: Verizon Communications confirmed on Thursday that it will stop offering its customers access to tens of thousands of Usenet discussion areas, including the alt.* groups…
ISPs: We’re limiting our own Usenet groups, not blocking others: An announcement this week by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that three Internet service providers would ‘block’ sources of child porn has caused…
This is an article from: TorrentFreak Canada Proposes Draconian Anti-Piracy Law: The bill, dubbed the ‘Canadian DMCA’ has not been popular with many of those it will effect. Over 40,000 have joined a facebook group,…
OECD ministerial meeting in Seoul, South Korea Council of Europe calls upon governments to sign up to its Cybercrime Convention Strasbourg, 12.06.2008 – Europe’s primary human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, will participate in…
Intelligence documents left on a train: “ Laptop ban no barrier to government’s data giveaway A senior civil servant has been suspended for leaving top secret intelligence documents on a Waterloo to Surrey train.… “…
David Davis resigns from Commons: “Shadow home secretary David Davis is resigning as an MP to force a by-election which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit.” “In truth,…
France gets closer to ‘three strikes’ downloader web ban: International war on pirates part deux The globalisation of internet law continues apace, as French legislators press ahead next week with the ‘loi Hadopi‘. The purpose…
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO ANNOUNCES UNPRECEDENTED DEAL WITH NATION’S LARGEST INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS TO BLOCK MAJOR SOURCES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY For Immediate Release: New York City Press Office / 212-416-8060 Albany Press Office / 518-473-5525 nyag.pressoffice@oag.state.ny.us…
Washington Post coverage of the New York Initiative New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, at the podium, is joined at the announcement by, from left, Matthew Sullivan of Sprint Nextel, Jeff Zimmerman of Time…
Justice Department Trying to Revive COPA: “Government lawyers tried Tuesday to revive the Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 law designed to keep online pornography away from children.” (Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)